Liebesschule (1940)

Hanni Weber is a secretary who is constantly trying to keep both her bosses happy. In the mornings she works in the office of Wölfing, a successful writer, and in the afternoons for Villanova, a tenor. Thanks to the split schedule, she manages both jobs well. But one day, when Wölfing—who has already written a bestseller titled The School of Love—is asked to write a book called The School of Marriage, things become turbulent: Wölfing would first have to be married, since it would be considered unprofessional for an unmarried author to write a novel about successful marriages. Wölfing decides that the most obvious solution is simply to marry his secretary. He hastily proposes to her, but Hanni turns him down because she does not want to enter into a mere “marriage of convenience.” Things become even more tangled when her other boss, tenor Villanova, also decides to change his ways: he wants to give up his life as a Casanova and finally get married. As a result, Hanni receives a marriage proposal from him as well. When the two men find out that they are rivals, each does everything he can to appear, in Hanni’s eyes, to be the better prospective husband.