A Woman Who Knows What She Wants

A Woman Who Knows What She Wants

1934 · 90 min · ★ 9.0 · Romance, Comedy, Music

Woman concert singer seeks to connect with her adult daughter, by her former marriage to a staid industrialist who has kept the two apart since the daughter was a small child, and gets inadvertent help from the industrialist's fired employee who has fallen in love with the girl.

Directed by Victor Janson · Written by Peter Franke

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