After completing work on the British musical Invitation to the Waltz, Lillian Harvey returned to her adopted country of Germany to star in the comedy-with-music Glueckskinder (Children of Fortune). Harvey plays Ann Garden, an unemployed actress who ends up in night court on a loitering charge. Here she meets Gil Taylor (Willy Fritsch), a struggling songwriter temporarily employed as a court reporter. Hoping to keep her out of jail, Gil impulsively tells the judge that he's engaged to Ann -- whereupon the judge, equally impulsively, marries the couple on the spot! After this inauspicious start, Ann and Gil embark upon a rocky (but tuneful) whirlwind romance.
Willy Fritsch
as Gil Taylor, Reporter
Lilian Harvey
as Ann Garden
Oskar Sima
as Stoddard, Reporter
Albert Florath
as Ölmagnat Mr. Jackson
Paul Bildt
as Schnellrichter
Paul Kemp
as Frank Black, Reporter
Fred Goebel
as Bill
Erich Kestin
as Hopkins
Otto Stoeckel
as Chefredakteur Manning
Max Hiller
as Standesbeamter
Hermann Mayer-Falkow
as Schallterbeamter beim Morning Post
