This “small fairy tale of the big city” is enlivened by a spunky performance by Dolly Haas as the tomboyish vagabond of the film's title. Billie (Billy) Wilder wrote the script, based on the play by Dario Niccodemi, set in the streets of Rome. In the play, Scampolo becomes infatuated with an artist who lives only one notch better than herself; in the German adaptation, the artist is translated into a down-and-out banker to whom Scampolo accidently gives the stock-market tip that puts him in the money again. Of Nazi-supported director Hans Steinhoff, Billy Wilder was later to say, “A rotten director, that Steinhoff--everything that he did (in this film) was rubbish!” (Rasner and Wulf, Billy Wilders Filme). The musical score is by Franz Waxman, who later contributed the score for Wilder's own first film, made in France, Mauvaise Graine (PFA, September 1984). Note: Dialogue is in German; a written English synopsis will be provided.