References

• Athenaeum - Sunshine Susie One of the best British musical comedies seen in Melbourne for some time is Sunshine Susie, which commenced its second week of screening at the Athenaeum on Saturday. During last week there were crowded attendances at each of the three daily sessions. The plot is of a sunny-natural girl who falls in love with a bank director, believing him to be a clerk. Renate Muller, the happy little girl from Germany, is Susie. Owen Nares is the handsome bank director, Jack Hulbert is the bank doorkeeper, and Morris Harvey is the bank staff manager. Bright comedy is well blended with lilting songs and music. In Chin Chin Chinaman, a second British picture, Leon M. Lion plays the part of a mandarin in an interesting crime film. Educational and other films, and good orchestral music make up an interesting programme.
• The Office Girl (1931) Sunshine Susie (original title) This early British musical (a 1931 "Gainsborough Pictures" release as SUNSHINE SUSIE) was one of those made simultaneously in English, German and probably other languages rather than re-dubbing or subtitling one filming. Major German star, Renate Muller (many argued that after Marlene Dietrich and probably before Zarah Leander she was the German film ideal in the 30's - she will remind many of American Marilyn Miller without the major dancing) puts in a delightful period performance as the "Sunshine Susie" of the title in the last film she was able to make abroad before her death six years later under suspicious circumstances while still at the top of her career.
• The Boat from Shanghai (1931) Chin Chin Chinaman (original title)