Variety Is the Spice of Life
1939 Swedish film
- Leo Lenz (play)
- Robert Arthur Schönherr (play)
- Gösta Stevens
- Tutta Rolf
- Per Aabel
- Elsa Burnett
- Gunnar Johansson
- Jules Sylvain
Production
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Svensk Filmindustri
Release date
- 22 March 1939 (1939-03-22)
Running time
Variety Is the Spice of Life (Swedish: Ombyte förnöjer) is a 1939 Swedish comedy film directed by Gustaf Molander and starring Tutta Rolf, Per Aabel and Elsa Burnett.[1]
The film's sets were designed by Arne Åkermark. It was based on a play which was also turned into a German film Marriage in Small Doses the same year.
Synopsis
When her composer husband loses interest in her, an ordinary housewife turns into a seductive vamp to try and win back his affections.
Main cast
- Tutta Rolf as Mrs. Vera Ivanow
- Per Aabel as Gregor Ivanow
- Elsa Burnett as Monica Falk
- Ernst Eklund as Uncle Ludvig
- Anna-Lisa Baude as Maria, maid
- Carl-Gunnar Wingård as Night Porter
References
- ^ Larsson & Marklund p.115
Bibliography
- Mariah Larsson & Anders Marklund. Swedish Film: An Introduction and Reader. Nordic Academic Press, 2010.
External links
- Variety Is the Spice of Life at IMDb
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Films directed by Gustaf Molander
- Thomas Graal's Ward (1922)
- Ingmar's Inheritance (1925)
- To the Orient (1926)
- She Is the Only One (1926)
- His English Wife (1927)
- Sealed Lips (1927)
- Parisiennes (1928)
- Sin (1928)
- The Triumph of the Heart (1929)
- Frida's Songs (1930)
- Charlotte Löwensköld (1930)
- Love and Deficit (1932)
- Black Roses (1932)
- Servant's Entrance (1932)
- Dear Relatives (1933)
- En stilla flirt (1934)
- Under False Flag (1935)
- Intermezzo (1936)
- The Wedding Trip (1936)
- The Family Secret (1936)
- Sara Learns Manners (1937)
- Dollar (1938)
- A Woman's Face (1938)
- Emilie Högquist (1939)
- Only One Night (1939)
- Variety Is the Spice of Life (1939)
- One, But a Lion! (1940)
- Bright Prospects (1941)
- The Fight Continues (1941)
- Tonight or Never (1941)
- Ride Tonight! (1942)
- The Word (1943)
- There's a Fire Burning (1943)
- The Invisible Wall (1944)
- The Emperor of Portugallia (1944)
- The Gallows Man (1945)
- Affairs of a Model (1946)
- Woman Without a Face (1947)
- Eva (1948)
- Life Starts Now (1948)
- Love Wins Out (1949)
- Fiancée for Hire (1950)
- The Quartet That Split Up (1950)
- Divorced (1951)
- Defiance (1952)
- Love (1952)
- The Glass Mountain (1953)
- Sir Arne's Treasure (1954)
- The Unicorn (1955)
- The Song of the Scarlet Flower (1956)
- Stimulantia (1967)
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