''The Cheeky Devil'' (german: Der Frechdachs) is a 1932 German

comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending ( black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the o ...

directed by

Carl Boese Carl Eduard Hermann Boese (; 26 August 1887 – 6 July 1958) was a German film director, screenwriter, and producer. He directed 158 films between 1917 and 1957. Selected filmography * ''Farmer Borchardt'' (1917) * ''Donna Lucia'' (1918) * ''T ...

and

Heinz Hille Heinz Hille (1891 – 15 May 1954) was a German screenwriter, film producer and director.Cunningham p.208 Selected filmography * ''You Will Be My Wife'' (1932) * ''The Old Scoundrel'' (1932) * ''The Cheeky Devil'' (1932) * ''And the Plains Are Gl ...

and starring

Willy Fritsch Willy Fritsch (27 January 1901 – 13 July 1973) was a German theater and film actor, a popular leading man and character actor from the silent-film era to the early 1960s. Biography Early life He was born Wilhelm Egon Fritz Fritsch, the only s ...

Camilla Horn Camilla Martha Horn (25 April 1903 – 14 August 1996) was a German dancer and a film star of the silent and sound era. She starred in several Hollywood films of the late 1920s and in a few British and Italian productions. Biography The daught ...

and Ralph Arthur Roberts.Waldman p. 46 It was shot at the

Babelsberg Studios Babelsberg Film Studio (german: Filmstudio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the second oldest large-scale film studio in the world only preceded by the Danish Nordisk Film (est. 1906), producing films since ...

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and premiered in the city's

Gloria-Palast The Gloria-Palast was a German cinema located on the Kurfürstendamm in the German capital Berlin. It was constructed in 1924 and replaced the existing neo-Baroque Romanischen Hauses designed by Franz Heinrich Schwechten. It became a common lo ...

. The film's sets were designed by the art directors

Willi A. Herrmann Willi Herrmann (1893–1968) was a German art director. Selected filmography * ''Madness'' (1919) * '' Child on the Open Road'' (1919) * '' Jettatore'' (1919) * ''Humanity Unleashed'' (1920) * ''The Secrets of Berlin'' (1921) * ''The Maharaja's ...

and Herbert Lippschitz. A separate French-language version ''

You Will Be My Wife ''You Will Be My Wife'' (French: ''Vous serez ma femme'') is a 1932 German comedy film directed by Carl Boese, Serge de Poligny and Heinz Hille and starring Alice Field, Roger Tréville and Lucien Baroux.Oscherwitz, Dayna & Higgins, MaryEllen. ...

'' was also released.

Cast

as The Young Man *

as Alice Ménard * Ralph Arthur Roberts as Adolphe Ménard * Else Elster as Loulou Gazelle *

Maria Forescu Maria Forescu (15 January 1875 28 October 1947) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian opera singer and film actress. During the silent and talkies era of the German cinema, she appeared in several movies as a supporting actress. When Adolf Hitle ...

as Loulous Mutter *

Anton Pointner Anton Pointner (8 December 1894 in Salzburg – 8 September 1949 in Hintersee) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Pointner's career began on the stages of Austria and performed in both silent and sound films in his native Austria, as well ...

as Henri Latour * Alexa von Porembsky as Annette *

Erich Kestin Erich Kestin (25 June 1895 – 22 May 1969) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 50 films shows between 1930 and 1953. Selected filmography * '' Dolly Gets Ahead'' (1930) * ''The Tiger Murder Case'' (1930) * '' The Stolen Face'' (1 ...

as Emil *

Ernst Behmer Ernst Behmer (22 December 1875 – 26 February 1938) was a prolific German stage and film actor who appeared in more than a hundred films during the silent and early sound eras. Behmer was born in Königsberg, East-Prussia, Germany (now Kali ...

as Hotelportier

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* 1932 films Films of the Weimar Republic German comedy films 1932 comedy films 1930s German-language films Films based on works by Louis Verneuil Films directed by Carl Boese Films directed by Heinz Hille UFA GmbH films German multilingual films German black-and-white films 1932 multilingual films 1930s German films Films shot at Babelsberg Studios {{1930s-Germany-film-stub