ID

FBW000159      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1940

Original Title

The Mam I Married

Other Title(s)

I Married A Nazi

Directed by

Irving Pichel

Produced by

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Executive producer: Darryl F. Zanuck; Associate producer: Raymond Griffith; Assistent director: Booth McCracken; Script: Oliver H.P. Garrett; Based on: Oscar Schisgall ("Swastika" [auch "I Married A Nazi"] / Fortsetzungsgeschichte aus "Liberty Magazine"); Camera: Peverell Marley; Editing: Robert Simpson; Sound: Joseph E. Aiken, Roger Heman; Art direction: Richard Day, Hans Peters; Technical consultant: Paul Victor Falkenberg; Set decoration: Thomas Little; Costumes: Travis Banton; Music: David Buttolph

Cast

Joan Bennett (Carol); Francis Lederer (Eric Hoffman); Lloyd Nolan (Kenneth Delane); Anna Sten (Frieda Heinkel); Otto Kruger (Heinrich Hoffman); Maria Ouspenskaya (Frau Gerhardt); Ludwig Stoessel (als: Ludwig Stossel) (Dr. Hugo Gerhardt); John Russell (Ricky); Lionel Royce (Herr Deckart); Frederick Vogeding (Traveler); Ernst Deutsch (Otto); Egon Brecher (Czech); Willy Kaufman (als: William Kaufmann) (Conductor); Charles Irwin (English Newspaperman); Frank Reicher (Freihof); Lillian Porter (Receptionist); Lillian West (Secretary); Harry Depp (Man); Walter Bonn (Customs Official); Glen Cavender (Petty Official); Hans von Morhart (Gestapo Officer); William Yetter, Sr. (Gestapo Officer); Ragner Quale (Freihof's older Son); Rudy Frolich (Freihof's Son); John Stark (Storm Trooper); Tom Mizer (Storm Trooper); Hans Schumm (Storm Trooper); Rudolf Amendt-Anders (als: Robert O. Davis) (Storm Trooper); Carl Freybe (Gestapo Official); Greta Meyer (Hausfrau); Albert Geigel (Boy); Eleonor Wesselhoeft (Old Lady); Diane Fisher (Young Girl); John Hiestand (Announcer); Leyland Hodgson (Announcer); Arno Frey (Announcer); Eugene Borden (Announcer)

Length

2115,3 m / 77'19''

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 04 May 1940-00 Jun 1940: Shooting period
- 12 Jul 1940: Preview, Los Angeles, CA (Grauman's Chinese)
- 16 Jul 1940: Premiere
- 02 Aug 1940: Release date, New York, NY (Roxy)
- 02 Aug 1940: Copyright LP10157
- 25 Feb 1983: First run, GFR, Berlin/West (33. Internationale Filmfestspiele, Astor, Retrospektive) OF

Further Remarks

- Tonsystem: Western Electric Microphonic Recording
- PCA Cert. No.: 6331

Abstract

Eric Hoffman, together with his wife, Carol, and son, travel to his former home town in order to support his father, a German industrialist, on business matters. There he meets his childhood sweetheart Frieda Heinkel who is a fanatic supporter of the Nazis. Instead of helping to free a friend`s brother from a concentration camp as promised, Eric becomes converted to National Socialism. He wants to marry Frieda and stay in Germany with his son. On discovering from his father that his mother was a Jew he breaks down. But Carol is not prepared to have him back. She flees home to America with her son.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US); Germany (1933-1945); Jews; Camps; USA

Materials

- AMPAS (Margaret Herrick Library), Beverly Hills, CA; Pressbook

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