Just Once a Great Lady (1934 film)

Just Once a Great Lady (German: Einmal eine große Dame sein) is a 1934 German comedy film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Käthe von Nagy, Wolf Albach-Retty and Gretl Theimer. Nagy plays a car saleswoman. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle. A separate French-language version A Day Will Come (1934) was also released, with Nagy reprising her role alongside Jean-Pierre Aumont.

Just Once a Great Lady
Directed by	Gerhard Lamprecht
Written by	Theo Halton Josef Pelz von Felinau
Produced by	Bruno Duday
Starring	Käthe von Nagy Wolf Albach-Retty Gretl Theimer Werner Fuetterer
Cinematography	Werner Brandes
Edited by	Milo Harbich
Music by	Franz Doelle
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	10 February 1934 (1934-02-10)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Nazi Germany
Language	German

In 1957 the film title was used for a West German remake of the 1932 film The Countess of Monte Cristo.

Cast

• Käthe von Nagy as Kitty Holm
• Wolf Albach-Retty as Heinz von Wolfenstein
• Gretl Theimer as Ria Thurner
• Werner Fuetterer as Wolf von Wolfenstein
• Ida Wüst as Baroness Agathe von Wolfenstein
• Gustav Waldau as Baron Adalbert von Wolfenstein
• Carola Höhn as Hilde
• Hans von Zedlitz as Mr Thurner
• Elfriede Sandner as Franzi, Studentin
• Josef Thuis as Student
• Peter Michael as Student
• Bert Schmidt-Maris as Flugschüler
• Tommy Thomas as Pathfinder
• Assy Oehm
• Werner Finck
• Hans Junkermann
• Hadrian Maria Netto
• Fritz Odemar
• Werner Scharf
• Arthur Schroder
• Grethe Weiser

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
• Hake, Sabine (2001). Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-73458-6.

External links

• Just Once a Great Lady at IMDb