Ernst Bach

Member of a village Purity League branch find things much livelier on a trip to London.

An industrialist has decided to marry his daughter with his partner and, for that reason, will try to help him in whatever way he can.

The Spanish fly is the name of a varieté artist who for some 24 years ago had a son. Now the son pops up looking for his dad.

Pediatrician Waldemar Weber is at his wits' end. Of all days, his adopted son Egon—from his first marriage, whom Waldemar has always kept a secret from his young wife Henny—has announced he’s coming to visit on their first wedding anniversary. Waldemar must stop Egon at all costs. When Egon finally shows up at the door, he turns out to be a monkey trainer.

1927. The place is Kalmar and the Grossman family home. A hungover manufacturer Julius Grossman and his wife Solveig are waiting at home for their daughter Betty to arrive by train from the capital. To their great surprise, she arrives in a car with her suitor Greger in tow. What's more, she seems to be full of contemporary trends and modern ideas about marriage, among other things. Her father Julius would rather see her marry his business partner Hilding and thus retain control of the company. Hilding is a dull, somewhat dreary, and slightly overage bachelor who suddenly becomes every woman's dream prince when a rumor begins to circulate that he had a relationship with the famous movie star Rita Ray in his youth.

An elderly wholesaler will marry a girl, young enough to be his daughter, who is under the impression that he rescued her from drowning. Obviously, things get complicated when both the girl's former boyfriend and the actual rescuer show up

Boring office worker Magda Munter is having a hard time seducing her boss' son until a false rumour starts spreading about her having had an affair with Frank Sinatra in her youth.

The village mayor is a bigoted man: when he sees a girl from the variety show, the morality no longer applies to him.

As a young man, mustard manufacturer Ludwig Klinke had an affair with a dancer, the “Spanish Fly”. The dancer had a son and Klinke has been secretly paying maintenance ever since. Wimmer and Tiedemeier also had a relationship with the dancer. With the appearance of the dancer's supposed son, Heinrich Meisel, chaos breaks out.

Chester Binney, a wounded war veteran, erroneously believes he is carrying a silver plate in his head and must avoid all excitement. He returns to his hometown, and there his former employer, George Simmons, attempts to arrange a match between Chester (who is to inherit a fortune) and his daughter Ethel. Ethel, however, finds Chester unexciting as a lover; and to enliven the affair, the father invents a lurid past for the boy by displaying a signed photograph of Rita Renault, a famous movie star. Rita, accompanied by her jealous husband, Jack Shields, arrives in the town for a personal appearance. By chance, Jack discovers the photograph of Rita, presumably the property of Chester, and when he sees his wife kissing Chester, a running fight ensues.

A shy and aging bachelor suddenly becomes very interesting to the women in town after a rumour starts spreading about him being together with a famous movie star in his youth.

Calle Pettersson is engaged to the young beauty Marilyn on the false pretense that he saved her life

When Julius Seipold's wife Regine becomes suspicious that he is having an affair after discovering incriminating evidence, Julius manages to convince her that it is his innocuous assistant Max who is having a relationship.

This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly!

When Waldemar Palm married an old woman as a young man to give her estranged son a surname he didn't expect his good deed to come back to haunt him. When his in-laws from his second marriage show up on the same day that his adult step-son turns up unannounced he finds himself getting more and more wrapped up in his lies.

Play performed at Fredriksdalsteatern in 1999, based on Hurra, ein Junge by Arnold and Bach. It was originally performed in Swedish with Nils Poppe, but when Eva Rydberg took over, a new production was created.

Finnicky efficiency expert is sent to straighten out business management problems at a jazz club, and finds self being drawn into the swingin' scene.

Den Spanske Flue (The Spanish Fly) is a situation comedy-farce, set in the home of businessman Ludvik Klinke in 1915s Christiania. Struggling to keep his hag of a wife happy, while trying to secure his daughter a nice husband, things are about to get a whole lot worse when a fling from his past turns up on his doorstep. But who is this young lad, who calls him dad?