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Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930's. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin (Utyosov) is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta (Orlova) and plays the "star" for her. In a cascade of comic musical numbers he becomes the leader of a Jazz-Band and gives a hilarious show at the Odessa Music Hall. Now he is destined to perform at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
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Lyubov Orlova
Anyuta - the Housemaid
Fyodor Kurikhin
Mortician (as F.N. Kurikhin)
Emmanuil Geller
Music-hall audience member (uncredited)
Mariya Strelkova
Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
Arnold Arnold
Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay (as G. Arnold)
Robert Erdman
German music teacher (as R. Yerdman)
Leonid Utyosov
Kostya Potekhin
Yelena Tyapkina
Anyuta's Stepmother (as Ye. Tyapkina)
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