She recommended him for the role of Carmen Ghia feeling his natural Greek accent would contribute to the role's comedy. Voutsinas was a friend of Brooks' wife Anne Bancroft, who performed with him at The Actors Studio. They are both flamboyantly gay and they love to flounce around their Upper East Side town house. Carmen Ghia is Roger De Bris' "common-law assistant". The character is named after the Karmann Ghia, marketed from 1955 to 1974 by Volkswagen. In the 2001 Broadway show The Producers and the 2005 musical film The Producers he is played by Roger Bart. He is played by Andreas Voutsinas in the 1967 film. Roger Bart ( Broadway musical and 2005 film)Ĭarmen Ghia is the partner of Roger De Bris. In Max and Leo's second production, Prisoners of Love, she plays the lead prisoner/singer. Little of her role in the Springtime for Hitler play is shown, but she plays a showgirl representing the German Imperial Eagle and later appears as Marlene Dietrich. Her maiden name is never mentioned, but by the end of the play she is Ulla Inga Hansen Benson Yansen Tallen Hallen Svaden Swanson Bloom.Įarlier, Max and Leo ask her to clean up their place while they're gone, but she doesn't understand English very well, and after they leave, she paints Max's office entirely white. Following the unwanted success of the musical, she and Leo flee to Rio de Janeiro where they marry. While the casting isn't to start for quite a while, Max and Leo hire her as their secretary/receptionist. She decided to audition when a "crazy man" (Max) yelled at her the previous day. She performs a song she wrote called "When You Got It, Flaunt It". She is a stereotypical Swedish woman: tall and beautiful with lovely blonde hair. In the film adapted from the musical, Ulla introduces herself as a Swedish actress looking for a part in Max and Leo's production Springtime for Hitler. She also constantly says "God dag på dig", which means "good day to you" in Swedish (with a faux-Swedish accent), and provides a sexier counterpoint to Max's much older girlfriends. She can speak little English, but is a good go-go dancer, indeed she can dance far better than she can type. In the original 1967 film, Ulla is introduced as a "toy" that Max found in the local library, and is a symbol of his newfound affluence. Ulla Inga Hansen Benson Yansen Tallen Hallen Svaden Swansson (Later Bloom) is a pretty young Swedish woman who becomes Max's secretary.
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