Juggler and con-artist Caesar comes to Karlsbad, where he hopes to trick the renowned Vaudeville manager Willard into taking him to America. But when he actually meets Willard, Caesar mistakes him for a certain Mr. Lehmann. Willard / Lehmann is not amused, since Caesar constantly courts his daughter Eva. While fooling around, Caesar doesn’t notice that young Rosl, the daughter of innkeeper Mrs. Svoboda, has fallen in love with him. Finally, the romantic and comical confusion is resolved during a hotel fire.

The film starts in the fashionable seaside resort on the Baltic, Heringsdorf, where Renate Müller spends a secret weekend away from her husband with her bosom friend Ida Wüst. The husband meanwhile has a flirtation while traveling by night train from Frankfurt to Berlin, nice atmospheric shots of sleeper and dining car in the morning. The action continues in the luxury villas and apartments of Berlin, Renate Müller wears a string of very elegant outfits. Misunderstandings, jealousies, temporary separation of husband and wife, a few songs, wicked humour.

Georg Alexander plays Douglas Mavis, the son of a rich English family who falls in love with a Berlin girl (Renate Müller) and marries her. However, he doesn't tell his family, and for a reason: the resolute head of the family (played by the inimitable Adele Sandrock) has other designs for her grandson. Further complications arise when the family lawyer (Adolf Wohlbrück) gets to know the Berlin lady without knowing who she is. And meanwhile, Mavis meets an alluring lady from a cabaret (Hilde Hildebrand).

1935年最轰动的电影《东道主》是一部喜剧片，影片新意迭出，用抽象的白色场景为背景营造出宏大气势，运用时代倒错的手法，比如信使穿者溜冰鞋传递信件等。故事取材于希腊神话，正当底比斯的女人们正忧心忡忡地等待男人们从战争中归来时，不乏风流的众神之首宙斯却趁壮士出征的当口看中了她们其中的一个，王后阿尔克墨涅。他来到人间，企图引诱她委身自己，无奈自己的外表已然是一位垂垂老者了。于是，他只得变施一计，化身国王安菲特律翁的模样，骗取了王后的信任。谁料，第二天，安菲特律翁和他的将士们从沙场回乡，敏锐的他怀疑自己的妻子不忠，执意要剥夺她王后的桂冠。此时此刻，宙斯的原配妻子赫拉也不得不降临人间，化解矛盾，收拾残局。
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Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discovered by an agent, who thinks, that she really is a man. She becomes famous, but her situation becomes troublesome, when she falls in love with Robert

Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Marry gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work. To prove that he can accomplish things on his own, he leaves Hollywood and convinces a former partner to put on an ice revue in Canada. The show is a huge success, but it makes it impossible for him to be with his wife, but the studio boss has a wonderful idea.