The Fairy Doll

{{short description|1936 film}} {{Infobox film | name = The Fairy Doll | image = File:The Fairy Doll.jpg | caption = | director = [[E.W. Emo]] | producer = Rolf Eckbauer | based_on = ''The Fairy Doll'' by [[Joseph Bayer]] | writer = [[Ralph Benatzky]] [[Leon Laroche]] [[Carl Lorens]] [[Hanns Saßmann]] | narrator = | starring = [[Adele Sandrock]] [[Magda Schneider]] [[Paul Hörbiger]] | music = [[Ralph Benatzky]] | cinematography =[[Eduard Hoesch]] [[Hans Theyer]] | editing = [[Lisbeth Neumann]] | studio = Hade-Film | distributor = Kiba Kinobetriebsanstalt | released = {{Film date|1936|06|19|df=yes}} | runtime = 85 minutes | country = Austria | language = [[German language|German]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Fairy Doll''''' ({{langx|de|'''Die Puppenfee'''}}) is a 1936 Austrian [[romance film]] directed by [[E.W. Emo]] and starring [[Adele Sandrock]], [[Magda Schneider]] and [[Paul Hörbiger]]. It is based on the 1888 [[The Fairy Doll (ballet)|ballet work by the same name]] composed by [[Josef Bayer]], owing more to the [[Film score|score]] than the [[libretto]].<ref>Von Dassanowsky p.180</ref> The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]] [[Julius von Borsody]]. It marked the screen debut of future star [[Hilde Krahl]].<ref>Bock & Bergfelder p.259</ref>

==Cast== * [[Adele Sandrock]] as Konstanze Gräfin Reiffersperg * [[Magda Schneider]] as Komtess Felizitas - ihre Nichte * [[Paul Hörbiger]] as Anton Freiherr von Kautzenbichl * [[Wolf Albach-Retty]] as Alexander - sein Bruder * [[Dagny Servaes]] as Gräfin Bernburg * [[Lizzi Holzschuh]] as Fanny Heigl - Primaballerina * [[Fritz Imhoff]] as Kommerzialrat Steindl * [[Hilde Krahl]] as Heurigengast

== References == {{reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. * Von Dassanowsky, Robert. ''Screening Transcendence: Film Under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope, 1933-1938''. Indiana University Press, 2018

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0028147}}

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