The Merry Widower

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Short description|1929 film}} {{For|the Italian film|The Merry Widower (1950 film)}} {{Infobox film | name = The Merry Widower | image = The Merry Widower.jpg | caption = Harry Liedtke and La Jana | director = [[Robert Land]] | producer = | writer = {{ubl|[[Walter Reisch]]|[[Franz Schulz]]}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|[[Harry Liedtke]]|[[La Jana (actress)|La Jana]]|[[Alice Roberts (actress)|Alice Roberts]]}} | music = [[Franz Lehár]] | cinematography = {{ubl|[[Carl Drews]]|[[Gotthardt Wolf]]}} | editing = | studio = Super-Film | distributor = Deutsche Lichtspiel-Syndikat | released = {{Film date|1929|05|01|df=y}} | runtime = 102 minutes | country = Germany | language = [[German language|German]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Merry Widower''''' ({{langx|de|'''Der lustige Witwer'''}}) is a 1929 German [[comedy film]] directed by [[Robert Land]] and starring [[Harry Liedtke]], [[La Jana (actress)|La Jana]], [[Alice Roberts (actress)|Alice Roberts]].<ref>Bock & Bergfelder p. 392</ref> The film's sets were designed by [[Robert Neppach]].

It is not to be confused with the 1908 show at the [[Pekin Theatre]] in Chicago starring Lottie Grady and Jerry Mills.

==Cast== * [[Harry Liedtke]] as George Dulac * [[La Jana (actress)|La Jana]] as Lucile Daumier * [[Alice Roberts (actress)|Alice Roberts]] as Alice Dulac * [[Marcel Vibert]] as William Garrick - ein Witwer * [[Anton Pointner]] as Ein Paradegast * [[Otto Wallburg]] as Ein Paradegast * [[John Mylong]] as Ein Paradegast * Károly Huszár as Der Hoteldirektor * [[Hanna Waag]] as Die Hotelsekretärin

== References == {{reflist}}

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

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0462694}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Merry Widower}} [[Category:1929 films]] [[Category:1929 comedy films]] [[Category:Films of the Weimar Republic]] [[Category:German comedy films]] [[Category:1929 German-language films]] [[Category:Films directed by Robert Land ]] [[Category:Films with screenplays by Franz Schulz]] [[Category:1929 German films]] [[Category:German-language comedy films]]