The Private Secretary Gets Married (1933)
March 17, 1933Release Date
The Private Secretary Gets Married (1933)
March 17, 1933Release Date
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Release DateMarch 17, 1933
Original NameDas häßliche Mädchen
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 12m
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Das häßliche Mädchen ("The Ugly Girl", sometimes translated "The Ugly Duckling") is a German comedy film made in early 1933, during the transition from the Weimar Republic to Nazi Germany, and premièred in September that year. It was the first or second film directed by Hermann Kosterlitz, who left Germany before the film was completed and later worked in the United States under the name Henry Koster, and the last German film in which Dolly Haas appeared; she also later emigrated to the US. A riot broke out at the première to protest the male lead, Max Hansen, who was supposedly "too Jewish." The film's representation of the "ugly girl" as outsider has been described as a metaphorical way to explore the outsider existence of Jews.