Jolly Fellows Plot
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.
Jolly Fellows Cast
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as Kostya Potekhin -
as Anyuta - the Housemaid -
as Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union -
as Mortician (as F.N. Kurikhin) -
as Music-hall audience member (uncredited) -
as Anyuta's Stepmother (as Ye. Tyapkina) -
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as Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay (as G. Arnold)
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