Jolly Fellows
Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin (Utyosov) is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta (Orlova) and plays the "star" for her. In a cascade of comic musical numbers he becomes the leader of a Jazz-Band and gives a hilarious show at the Odessa Music Hall. Now he is destined to perform at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
Moscow kinokombinatCrew
Cast
Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
Leonid UtyosovАнюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)
Lyubov OrlovaЕлена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
Mariya StrelkovaФакельщик (Mortician)
Fyodor KurikhinЗритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))
Emmanuil GellerМачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)
Yelena TyapkinaМузыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции
Niki OttoДирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)
Arnold ArnoldУчитель музыки (German music teacher)
Robert Erdman
Leonid UtyosovАнюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)
Lyubov OrlovaЕлена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
Mariya StrelkovaФакельщик (Mortician)
Fyodor KurikhinЗритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))
Emmanuil GellerМачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)
Yelena TyapkinaМузыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции
Niki OttoДирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)
Arnold ArnoldУчитель музыки (German music teacher)
Robert Erdman
