# Marriage in Small Doses > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Marriage_in_Small_Doses > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Marriage_in_Small_Doses.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_Small_Doses > Source revision: 1341595431 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1939 film Marriage in Small Doses Directed by Johannes Meyer Written by Leo Lenz (play) Ralph Arthur Roberts (play) Rudolf F. Klein Johannes Meyer Starring Leny Marenbach Johannes Riemann Ralph Arthur Roberts Cinematography Oskar Schnirch Edited by Helmuth Schönnenbeck Music by Franz Grothe Will Meisel Production company Cine-Allianz Tonfilm Distributed by Bavaria Film Release date 18 August 1939 (1939-08-18) Running time 96 minutes Country Germany Language German ***Marriage in Small Doses*** ([German](/source/German_language): ***Ehe in Dosen***) is a 1939 German [musical comedy film](/source/Musical_comedy_film) directed by [Johannes Meyer](/source/Johannes_Meyer_(director)) and starring [Leny Marenbach](/source/Leny_Marenbach), [Johannes Riemann](/source/Johannes_Riemann), and [Ralph Arthur Roberts](/source/Ralph_Arthur_Roberts).[1] It was based on a play, which was also turned into a Swedish film *[Variety Is the Spice of Life](/source/Variety_Is_the_Spice_of_Life)* the same year. ## Cast - [Leny Marenbach](/source/Leny_Marenbach) as Nora Bagrat - [Johannes Riemann](/source/Johannes_Riemann) as Peter Bagrat, Komponist - [Ralph Arthur Roberts](/source/Ralph_Arthur_Roberts) as Justizrat Windhorst - [Grethe Weiser](/source/Grethe_Weiser) as Mausi Blanke - [Hilde Weissner](/source/Hilde_Weissner) as Christa Andersen - [Hilde Hildebrand](/source/Hilde_Hildebrand) as Frau Conradi - [Rudolf Platte](/source/Rudolf_Platte) as Karl, Diener bei Bagrat - [Ellen Hille](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen_Hille&action=edit&redlink=1) as Jette, Hausmädchen bei Bagrat - [Willi Schur](/source/Willi_Schur) as Toby, Kellner - [Gerhard Dammann](/source/Gerhard_Dammann) as Briefträger - [Maria Seidler](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maria_Seidler&action=edit&redlink=1) as Wirtschafterin bei Windhorst - [Erich Fiedler](/source/Erich_Fiedler) as 1. Kavalier - [Angelo Ferrari](/source/Angelo_Ferrari) as 2. Kavalier - [Arthur Schröder](/source/Arthur_Schr%C3%B6der) as 3. Kavalier - [Ernö René](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ern%C3%B6_Ren%C3%A9&action=edit&redlink=1) as 4. Kavalier - [Irene Pfeiffer](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irene_Pfeiffer&action=edit&redlink=1) as 1. Tänzerin - [Hilla Höfer](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hilla_H%C3%B6fer&action=edit&redlink=1) as 2. Tänzerin - [Walter Ruesta](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Walter_Ruesta&action=edit&redlink=1) - [Bert Schmidt-Maris](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bert_Schmidt-Maris&action=edit&redlink=1) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Bock & Bergfelder p. 518 ## Bibliography - [Bock, Hans-Michael](/source/Hans-Michael_Bock); Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). *The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema*. New York: Berghahn Books. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-57181-655-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-57181-655-9). ## External links - [*Marriage in Small Doses*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031264/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Johannes Meyer Horrido (1924) The Poacher (1926) Guilty (1928) High Treason (1929) The Blonde Nightingale (1930) The Rhineland Girl (1930) The Tiger Murder Case (1930) Ash Wednesday (1931) Alarm at Midnight (1931) Two Heavenly Blue Eyes (1932) The Fugitive from Chicago (1933) Goodbye, Beautiful Days (1933) Happy Days in Aranjuez (1933) The Little Crook (1933) Mary's Start in die Ehe (1933) The Legacy of Pretoria (1934) Hangmen, Women and Soldiers (1935) The Impossible Woman (1936) Fridericus (1937) Mystery About Beate (1938) Der singende Tor (1939) Marriage in Small Doses (1939) Voice of the Heart (1942) Wild Bird (1943) Blocked Signals (1948) I'll Never Forget That Night (1949) Furioso (1950) Thirteen Under One Hat (1950) This article related to a German comedy film of the 1930s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:1930s-Germany-comedy-film-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3A1930s-Germany-comedy-film-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:1930s-Germany-comedy-film-stub) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Marriage in Small Doses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_Small_Doses) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_Small_Doses?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.