Ada, Don't Do That!

Ada, Don't Do That!

1936 · 87 min · ★ 7.5 · Comedy, Music

Ada Dziewanowska, a spirited landowner’s daughter, is sent to a Kraków boarding school to be “tamed,” where she secretly appears in an operetta and unexpectedly falls in love with Fred Orzelski, ironically the very suitor her parents had long planned for her.

Directed by Konrad Tom · Written by Konrad Tom

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Loda Niemirzanka Ada Dziewanowska
Antoni Fertner Ada's father
Kazimierz Junosza-Stepowski Count Orzelski
Aleksander Żabczyński Fred, count Orzelski's son
Kazimierz Krukowski Bemol, music teacher
Romuald Gierasieński Rzepka
Janina Krzymuska Spitzberg-Fotter, boarding school superordinate
Helena Zarembina Spitzberg-Fotter, boarding school superordinate
Jadwiga Andrzejewska Zofia, schoolgirl, Ada's friend
Mira Zimińska Ira Roletti, prima donna
Stanisław Woliński Piguła, stage manager
Edmund Zayenda play beau

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