{{Short description|1957 film}} {{Infobox film | name = The Simple Girl | image = The Simple Girl.jpg | caption = | director = Werner Jacobs | producer = Artur Brauner | writer = {{ubl|Curth Flatow|{{Interlanguage link multi|Eckart Hachfeld|de}}}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Caterina Valente|Rudolf Prack|Ruth Stephan}} | music = {{Interlanguage link multi|Heinz Gietz|de}} | cinematography = Friedl Behn-Grund | editing = Jutta Hering | studio = CCC Film | distributor = Gloria Film | released = {{Film date|1957|08|23|df=yes}} | runtime = 94 minutes | country = West Germany | language = German | budget =
}} '''''The Simple Girl''''' ({{langx|de|'''Das einfache Mädchen'''}}) is a 1957 West German musical comedy film directed by Werner Jacobs and produced by Artur Brauner. It starred Caterina Valente, Rudolf Prack and Ruth Stephan.<ref name="Filmportal">{{cite web|url=http://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/das-einfache-maedchen_ea43d4a6b55f5006e03053d50b37753d|title=Filmportal: Das einfache Mädchen|accessdate=31 March 2013}}</ref>
==Production== The film was directed by German director Werner Jacobs and produced by Artur Brauner. It is based on an idea by Curth Flatow who also wrote the screenplay, together with {{Interlanguage link multi|Eckart Hachfeld|de}}.<ref name="Filmportal" /> The working title was ''Bravo, Caterina''. Horst Wendlandt was line producer and Brauner's wife, Maria, was in charge of costume design.<ref name="Filmportal" /> Filming took place in May 1957 at the Spandau Studios in Berlin.<ref name="Filmportal" /> The film's sets were designed by the art directors Emil Hasler and Paul Markwitz.
The film premiered on 23 August 1957 at the Thalia in Wiesbaden.<ref name="Filmportal" />
==Plot== Caterina Bastiani, a talented young actress, is offered the leading role in a musical. This is her big break but the author of the novel on which the musical is based is less than pleased about this adaptation — and he does not think much of Caterina. By accident Caterina meets a girl who has applied to work for the author as a maid. She takes the girl's place in order to prove her talent as an actress and shows up at the author's home as the new maid herself.<ref name="Filmportal" />
==Cast== * Caterina Valente as Caterina Bastiani * Rudolf Prack as Thomas Krauss * Ruth Stephan as Milli * Rudolf Platte as Werner Pätzold * Dorit Kreysler as Mrs. Seidel * Helen Vita as Eva Krapke * Peter W. Staub as Pit * Stefan Haar as Jürgen Krauss * Richard Allan as Robert Holden * Hans Olden as Anton Schwarz * Franz-Otto Krüger as Regisseur * Henry Lorenzen as Komponist Heino Kies * Herbert Weißbach as Baron Westhoff<ref name="Filmportal" /> * Edith Adana as Baronin Westhoff
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. ''The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0050350}} * [http://deutsches-filminstitut.de/archive-bibliothek/nachlaesse-und-sammlungen/artur-brauner-archiv/ Artur-Brauner-Archive at the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt (German), containing the production files for this movie]
{{Werner Jacobs}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Simple Girl}} Category:1957 films Category:1957 musical comedy films Category:German musical comedy films Category:West German films Category:1957 German-language films Category:Films directed by Werner Jacobs Category:Gloria Film films Category:Films shot at Spandau Studios Category:1957 German films {{1950s-Germany-musical-comedy-film-stub}}