After completing work on the British musical Invitation to the Waltz, Lillian Harvey returned to her adopted country of Germany to star in the comedy-with-music Glueckskinder (Children of Fortune). Harvey plays Ann Garden, an unemployed actress who ends up in night court on a loitering charge. Here she meets Gil Taylor (Willy Fritsch), a struggling songwriter temporarily employed as a court reporter. Hoping to keep her out of jail, Gil impulsively tells the judge that he's engaged to Ann -- whereupon the judge, equally impulsively, marries the couple on the spot! After this inauspicious start, Ann and Gil embark upon a rocky (but tuneful) whirlwind romance.

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Cast

Willy Fritsch

Gil Taylor, Reporter

Lilian Harvey

Ann Garden

Oskar Sima

Stoddard, Reporter

Albert Florath

Ölmagnat Mr. Jackson

Paul Bildt

Schnellrichter

Paul Kemp

Frank Black, Reporter