Nordisk Film’s colourful musical, created in 1951 in the tradition of the great American musicals of the 1930s and 1940s, is a Danish film classic. It tells of composer John Berger’s struggle to finish writing his latest operetta. His wife Irene, a singer, flirts so outrageously with a young soldier that Polyhymnia herself, the muse of music, takes pity on John and descends all-singing, all-dancing from Mount Olympus to lend him a hand. Danish film history ranks “Meet Me on Cassiopeia” as one of the country’s finest and most successful entertainment films – not only for the soundtrack, with songs that have long since become part of Denmark’s popular culture, but also for the superb performance by leading lady Bodil Kjer. Arguably one of Denmark’s most popular female film stars of all time, Kjer, who died in 2003, was at the height of her fame in the early 1950s.