# The Simple Girl

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{{Short description|1957 film}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = The Simple Girl
| image          = The Simple Girl.jpg
| caption        = 
| director       = [Werner Jacobs](/source/Werner_Jacobs)
| producer       = [Artur Brauner](/source/Artur_Brauner)
| writer         = {{ubl|[Curth Flatow](/source/Curth_Flatow)|{{Interlanguage link multi|Eckart Hachfeld|de}}}}
| narrator       = 
| starring       = {{ubl|[Caterina Valente](/source/Caterina_Valente)|[Rudolf Prack](/source/Rudolf_Prack)|[Ruth Stephan](/source/Ruth_Stephan)}}
| music          = {{Interlanguage link multi|Heinz Gietz|de}}
| cinematography = [Friedl Behn-Grund](/source/Friedl_Behn-Grund)
| editing        = [Jutta Hering](/source/Jutta_Hering)
| studio         = [CCC Film](/source/CCC_Film)
| distributor    = [Gloria Film](/source/Gloria_Film)
| released       = {{Film date|1957|08|23|df=yes}}
| runtime        = 94 minutes
| country        = [West Germany](/source/West_Germany)
| language       = [German](/source/German_language)
| budget         =

}}
'''''The Simple Girl''''' ({{langx|de|'''Das einfache Mädchen'''}}) is a 1957 [West German](/source/Cinema_of_Germany) [musical](/source/musical_film) [comedy film](/source/comedy_film) directed by [Werner Jacobs](/source/Werner_Jacobs) and produced by [Artur Brauner](/source/Artur_Brauner). It starred [Caterina Valente](/source/Caterina_Valente), [Rudolf Prack](/source/Rudolf_Prack) and [Ruth Stephan](/source/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](/source/Werner_Jacobs) and produced by [Artur Brauner](/source/Artur_Brauner). It is based on an idea by [Curth Flatow](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Spandau_Studios) in Berlin.<ref name="Filmportal" /> The film's sets were designed by the [art director](/source/art_director)s [Emil Hasler](/source/Emil_Hasler) and [Paul Markwitz](/source/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](/source/Caterina_Valente) as Caterina Bastiani
* [Rudolf Prack](/source/Rudolf_Prack) as Thomas Krauss
* [Ruth Stephan](/source/Ruth_Stephan) as Milli
* [Rudolf Platte](/source/Rudolf_Platte) as Werner Pätzold
* [Dorit Kreysler](/source/Dorit_Kreysler) as Mrs. Seidel
* [Helen Vita](/source/Helen_Vita) as Eva Krapke
* [Peter W. Staub](/source/Peter_W._Staub) as Pit
* [Stefan Haar](/source/Stefan_Haar) as Jürgen Krauss
* [Richard Allan](/source/Richard_Allan_(actor)) as Robert Holden
* [Hans Olden](/source/Hans_Olden) as Anton Schwarz
* [Franz-Otto Krüger](/source/Franz-Otto_Kr%C3%BCger) as Regisseur
* [Henry Lorenzen](/source/Henry_Lorenzen) as Komponist Heino Kies
* [Herbert Weißbach](/source/Herbert_Wei%C3%9Fbach) as Baron Westhoff<ref name="Filmportal" />
* [Edith Adana](/source/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}}

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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
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