Sinful and Sweet

{{Short description|1929 film by Karel Lamač}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Sinful and Sweet | image = File:Sinful and Sweet.jpg | caption = | director = [[Carl Lamac]] | producer = [[Victor Skutezky]] | writer = {{ubl|[[Henry Koster]]|[[Hans Wilhelm (screenwriter)|Hans Wilhelm]]}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|[[Anny Ondra]]|[[Toni Tetzlaff]]|[[Paul Rehkopf]]}} | music = | editing = | cinematography = [[Otto Heller]] | studio = Holm Film | distributor = Süd-Film | released = {{Film date|1929|05|01|df=yes}} | runtime = | country = Germany | language = {{ubl|[[Silent film|Silent]]|German [[intertitles]]}} | budget = | gross = }}

'''''Sinful and Sweet''''' (German: '''''Sündig und süß''''') is a 1929 German [[silent film|silent]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Carl Lamac]] and starring [[Anny Ondra]], [[Toni Tetzlaff]], and [[Paul Rehkopf]].<ref>Bock & Bergfelder p. 258</ref>

The film's sets were designed by [[Heinrich Richter]].

==Plot== As described in a film magazine,<ref>{{cite journal |title=German-Made Pictures: ''Sinful and Sweet'' |journal=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |volume=96 |issue=10 |page=25 |publisher=Variety, Inc. |location=New York City |date=1929-09-18 |url=https://archive.org/details/variety96-1929-09/page/n176/mode/1up |access-date=10 January 2026}}</ref> Musette is a Parisian [[Model (art)|artist's model]] who applies to a rich American artist seeking a subject. She has already met him and is brought to his house by his automobile. he becomes interested in her but, when he later goes to call on her, finds a baby of a neighbor in her bed. Depressed by what he believes is continental immorality, he gives her the American high hat. That evening he finds her at a hall where she has had a trifle too much champagne. When he accuses her of loose living, she considers committing suicide. An old professor, feeling sorry for her, takes Musette home with him. There she shocks the professor when she drinks, without knowing what it is, a bottle containing his newly discovered youth-bringing formula. The American, having seen the young woman disappear, gets the baby and brings it to the professor's apartment. The young woman is finally able to explain to the artist that the child is not hers. The professor later returns to his apartment and, finding the baby instead of the young woman, believes his serum has been a tremendous success.

==Cast== * [[Anny Ondra]] as Musette, ein Pariser Modell * [[Toni Tetzlaff]] as Frau Griche * [[Paul Rehkopf]] as Herr Griche * [[Julius Falkenstein]] as Kurzsichtier Nachbar Musettes * [[Eugen Rex]] as Meunier - Bildhauer * [[Hans Junkermann (actor)|Hans Junkermann]] as Mr. de Malcomte - Kunstliebhaber * [[André Roanne]] as Joe Willings - reicher Mann aus den USA * [[Teddy Bill]] as Gaston - Willings' Freund * [[Anielka Elter]] as Helen - Willings' Freundin * [[Adolphe Engers]] as Albert - Willings' Diener * [[Hermann Picha]] as Prof. Voronoffsky - Verjüngungsdoktor * [[Artur Hofer]] as Ein Ausländer * [[Paul Morgan (actor)|Paul Morgan]] as Ein Ausländer

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0020474}}

[[Category:1929 films]] [[Category:Films of the Weimar Republic]] [[Category:German silent feature films]] [[Category:Films directed by Karel Lamač]] [[Category:German black-and-white films]] [[Category:1929 comedy films]] [[Category:German silent comedy films]] [[Category:1929 German films]] [[Category:1929 German-language films]] [[Category:German-language comedy films]]