Jolly Fellows

Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta 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.

• Grigori AleksandrovDirector
• Grigori AleksandrovWriter
• Vladimir MassWriter
• Nikolay ErdmanWriter
• Isaak DunayevskyOriginal Music Composer

• Leonid UtyosovKostya Potekhin
• Lyubov OrlovaAnyuta, the housemaid
• Mariya StrelkovaYelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
• Fyodor KurikhinMortician
• Emmanuil GellerMusic-hall audience member (uncredited)
• Yelena TyapkinaAnyuta's stepmother
• Niki OttoMusician, fight instigator
• Arnold ArnoldFraschini, the conductor from Paraguay
• Robert ErdmanGerman music teacher