Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematography of the Holocaust
ID |
FBW000018 Fiction |
Country / Year |
USA, 1942 |
Original Title |
Once Upon a Honeymoon |
Directed by |
Leo McCarey |
Produced by |
RKO (Radio Keith Orpheum) Radio Pictures, Inc., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY |
Staff |
Producer: Leo McCarey; Assistent director: James Anderson, Harry Scott; Script: Sheridan Gibney; Based on: Sheridan Gibney, Leo McCarey; Camera: George Barnes; Special optical effects: Vernon L. Walker; Still photograpy: John Miehle; Editing: Theron Warth; Montage: Douglas Travers; Sound: James G. Stewart, Richard Van Hessen; Sound recording: Stephen Dunn; Art direction: Albert S. D'Agostino, Alfred Herman; Technical consultant: Eugen Sharin; Set decoration: Darrell Silvera, Claude E. Carpenter; Costumes: Leslie [?]; Makeup: Mel Berns; Music: Robert Emmett Dolan |
Cast |
Cary Grant (Pat O'Toole); Ginger Rogers (Katie O'Hara); Walter Slezak (Baron Albrecht von Luber); Albert Dekker (Gaston LeBlanc); Albert Bassermann (General Borelski); Ferike Boros (Elsa); Harry Shannon (Ed Cumberland); John Banner (German Attache Kleinoch); Natasha Lytess (Anna the Hotel Maid); Dorothy Vaughan (Katie's Mother); Peter Seal (Polish Orderly); Major Nichols (Traveler in Warsaw); Dina Smirnova (Traveler in Warsaw); Alex Davidoff (Traveler in Warsaw); Leda Nicova (Traveler in Warsaw); Ace Bragunier (Plane Pilot); Emil Ostlin (German Captain); Dell Henderson (American Attache); Carl Ekberg (Adolf Hitler); Fred Niblo (Ship Captain); Oscar Loraine (Ship Steward); Claudine De Luc (Hotel Proprietor); Brandon Beach (Civilian); Russell Gaige (Baron's Guest); Gohr Van Vleck (Baron's Guest); Walter O. Stahl (Baron's Guest); Joseph Diskay (Warsaw Desk Clerk); Eugene Marum (Jacob, Anna's Son); Gordon Clark (German Officer); Jack Martin (German Officer); Manart Kippen (German Officer); George Sorel (German Officer); Walter Bonn (German Officer); Bill Martin (German Officer); Arno Frey (German Officer); Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (German Officer); Lionel Royce (Marshal Mocha); Jacques Vanaire (French Radio Announcer); Frank Alten (Spontaneity); Boyd Davis (Chamberlain); Emory Parnell (Quisling); Albert Petit (French Waiter); Adolf Edgar Licho (French Waiter); Robert Emmett O'Connor (Polish Operator); Rolf Myzet (Czech Official); Joseph Kamaryt (Czech Official); George Irving (American Consul); Hans Schumm (Storm Trooper); Hans Fuerberg (German Storm Trooper); Bob Stevenson (German Storm Trooper); Henry Victor (Storm Trooper); Fred Aldrich (German Storm Trooper); Johnny Dime (German Storm Trooper); Henry Guttman (German Storm Trooper); Alex Melesh (Hotel Clerk in Warsaw/Bar Waiter); Felix Basch (Herr Kelman); Fred Giermann (German); Ernst Haeussermann (als: Ernst Hausman) (German); Otto Reichow (German Private); John Peters (Kleinoch's Driver); Hans Conried (French Fitter); William von Brincken (als: William Vaughn) (German Colonel); Walter Byron (Guard); Hans Wollenberger (Paris Cafe Waiter); Bert Roach (Bartender); Gerta Rozen |
Length |
3201 m / 117' |
Format |
35mm/sw/1:1,37 |
Dates |
- 12 Nov 1942: Premiere, New York, NY (Radio City Music Hall) |
Further Remarks |
- Tonsystem: RCA |
Abstract |
1938 an American radio broadcaster Pat O'Toole is reporting on the approaching war in Europe. Katie O'Hara is a Brooklyn girl who'd spent some time peeling off her clothes for bald men, but she's now posing as a society woman and has married Baron von Luber, a big man in the Nazi scheme of things. She thinks he's just a rich Austrian nobleman. When she finds out the truth, O'Toole and O'Hara get closer, so she leaves with him during a bombing in Poland. They race across Scandinavia and wind up in France where they join forces with LeBlanc, an American spy, to help fight the Germans. O'Toole and O'Hara leave for the US, and Baron von Luber drowns as he's on his way to spy in the States. |
Subject Terms |
Anti-Nazi films (US); New York, NY; Austria; Poland; Foreign agents; Espionage; USA |
Bibliography |
- , in: Variety, 11.04.1942 |