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Little Man, What Now (Universal). Hans Pinneberg (Douglass Montgomery) is a bookkeeper in the German town of Ducherow, worried about losing his job and the pregnancy of his sweetheart Lammchen (Margaret Sulla van). Marriage solves one problem and augments the other. Pinneberg's employer has been planning to marry his hireling to his daughter; when he learns his clerk has already taken a wife, he discharges Pinneberg. Lammchen and her husband go to Berlin to live with Pinneberg's hard-boiled mother whose friend Jachman helps the young man get a job selling clothes in a department store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 11, 1934 | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...this point Director Frank Borzage really ended his treatment of Little Man, What Now. In a final, purely conventional, sequence, one of Pinneberg's friends is heard thumping up the ladder to the attic to announce that he has found Pinneberg a good job in Amsterdam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 11, 1934 | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

Lovely, Husky-voiced Margaret Sullavan, who despite all the superlatives that have been heaped on her bids fair to outshine la Hepburn, gives a charming impersonation of Lammchen, the devoted young wife of Hans Pinneberg, played by Douglass Montgomery. Mr. Montgomery suffers considerably by comparison, the best that can be said of him is that he is very earnest and sincere. The plot has to do with the vicissitudes in the life of this unassuming couple trying to live a peaceful existence. Lammchen is to have a baby, Hans loses his jobs through no particular fault...

Author: By M. K. R., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...Hans Pinneberg, 23, was a smalltown bookkeeper, a decent but rather timid sort. Cupid drove an arrow straight through Hans's heart when he and pretty young Bunny met on a temporarily deserted beach. Before they even knew each other's names they were married in every sense but the legal. Then a baby threatened, so they got married legally. Pinneberg lost his job, because his boss had wanted him for a son-in-law; there was nothing more for him in that town. His mother, who was no better than she should have been, wrote that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Germans | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

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