Inglourious Basterds, Part III

3. Glückskinder (1936), aka Lucky Kids, the film Goebbels chooses to screen privately at Le Gamaar, was one of the Reichsminister's own productions as de facto head of Ufa, Germany's principal film studio. From the early draft of the IB script, Goebbels speaking:

Ahhh, "Lucky Kids", "Lucky Kids", "Lucky Kids". When all is said and done, my most purely enjoyable production. Not only that, I wouldn't be surprised, if sixty years from now, it's "Lucky Kids" that I'm the most remembered for. I know it doesn't seem like it now, but mark my words.

This screwball Frank Capra-knockoff features Lilian Harvey, one of the biggest stars of early German talkies — dubbed the "sweetest girl in the world". But Lilian was no Leni. Following her return to Germany in 1935 after a stint in Hollywood, Harvey's ties to Jewish theatre landed her under observation by the Gestapo. Indeed, while continuing to star in hits for Ufa, she secretly aided the escape of several Jewish contacts and herself fled to France, then the US, in 1940. Goebbels, in his fury, revoked her citizenship.