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Variety (1935 German Film)
''Variety'' (German title: ''Varieté '') is a 1935 French-German drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and starring Annabella, Hans Albers and Attila Hörbiger.Bock & Bergfelder p.8 It is based on the 1912 novel '' The Oath of Stephan Huller'' by Felix Hollaender. It features a love triangle between three performers of a high wire act. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and the Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Serge Piménoff. A separate French-language film ' was also produced. The following year a British remake '' Three Maxims'' was produced by Herbert Wilcox and starred Anna Neagle. Cast * Annabella as Jeanne * Hans Albers as Pierre * Attila Hörbiger as Georges * Karl Etlinger as Max * Ernst Rotmund as Varieté-Direktor * Gerhard Dammann as Varieté-Regisseur * Gustav Püttjer as Emil * Else Reval as Frau Thomas * Arthur Reinhardt as Der Pressechef * Walter Steinweg as Ein Schneider * Nicolas Koline Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Farkas
''The native form of this personal name is Farkas Miklós. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.'' Nicolas Farkas ( Margitta, Austro-Hungarian Empire, July 27, 1890 – New York, March 22, 1982) was a Hungarian-born cinematographer, screenwriter, producer and film director. He is also known as Farkas Miklós, Miklós Farkas, Mikolaus Farkas, Nikolaus Farkas and Nikolas Farkas. Early years and career in Europe After studying in Budapest, Farkas went to Vienna in 1919 and trained as a cinematographer. He worked for the Austrian film industry until 1924. During the 1920s he collaborated frequently with another Hungarian famous film directors and producers such as Sándor Korda and Mihály Kertész. In 1925 Farkas started working in Germany. Individual projects also took him to the Soviet Union and Poland. Among his last important German projects was ''Berlin - Alexanderplatz'' (1931, directed by Phil Jutzi). After 1933 he worked in France, where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, and thus the largest which does not constitute its own state, as well as the 11th-largest city in the European Union. The city's metropolitan region is home to 6 million people. Straddling the banks of the River Isar (a tributary of the Danube) north of the Bavarian Alps, Munich is the seat of the Bavarian administrative region of Upper Bavaria, while being the most densely populated municipality in Germany (4,500 people per km2). Munich is the second-largest city in the Bavarian dialect area, after the Austrian capital of Vienna. The city was first mentioned in 1158. Catholic Munich strongly resisted the Reformation and was a political point of divergence during the resulting Thirty Years' War, but remained physically unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Reinhardt
Arthur Reinhardt (17 April 1893 – 16 December 1973) was a German actor.Kay Weniger Kay Weniger (born in Berlin in 1966) is an Austrian writer of books on media issues. He published an eight-volume encyclopaedia on international film people. Biography Weniger is the son of the German stage and film actress and the Austria ...: ''Das große Personenlexikon des Films'', Bd. 6., N - R : Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2001, He appeared in more than sixty films from 1927 to 1955. Selected filmography References External links * 1893 births 1973 deaths German male film actors {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Else Reval
Else Reval (14 June 1893 – 25 January 1978) was a German film actress.Giesen p.210 Selected filmography * '' War in Peace'' (1925) * '' The World Wants To Be Deceived'' (1926) * '' Marriage Announcement'' (1926) * '' The Eleven Schill Officers'' (1926) * '' Marie's Soldier'' (1927) * '' How Do I Marry the Boss?'' (1927) * ''The Bordello in Rio'' (1927) * '' The False Prince'' (1927) * ''Bigamy'' (1927) * '' Because I Love You'' (1928) * '' Der Herzensphotograph'' (1928) * '' Who Invented Divorce?'' (1928) * '' You Walk So Softly'' (1928) * '' Escape from Hell'' (1928) * '' Sixteen Daughters and No Father'' (1928) * '' Dear Homeland'' (1929) * '' The Lord of the Tax Office '' (1929) * ''Come Back, All Is Forgiven'' (1929) * '' Pension Schöller'' (1930) * '' The Cabinet of Doctor Larifari'' (1930) * '' Mischievous Miss'' (1930) * '' Retreat on the Rhine'' (1930) * '' Marriage in Name Only'' (1930) * '' Without Meyer, No Celebration is Complete'' (1931) * '' Student Life in Merry S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Püttjer
Gustav Püttjer (15 May 1886 – 11 August 1959) was a German film actor who appeared in around 150 feature films between 1927 and 1959. He largely played character parts. After the Second World War he settled in East Germany appearing in the films of the state-controlled company DEFA. Selected filmography * ''The Fourth from the Right'' (1929) * '' The Last Company'' (1930) * '' Road to Rio'' (1931) * '' A Woman Branded'' (1931) * ''The Street Song'' (1931) * '' F.P.1'' (1932) * ''Five from the Jazz Band'' (1932) * ''Haunted People'' (1932) * ''All is at Stake'' (1932) * ''Here's Berlin'' (1932) * ''A Bit of Love'' (1932) * ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' (1932) * '' Scandal on Park Street'' (1932) * ''Things Are Getting Better Already'' (1932) * '' Dreaming Lips'' (1932) * ''The House of Dora Green'' (1933) * ''Life Begins Tomorrow'' (1933) * ''Two Good Comrades'' (1933) * ''Girls of Today'' (1933) * ''Black Fighter Johanna'' (1934) * ''Police Report'' (1934) * ''The Girlfr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Dammann
Gerhard Dammann (30 March 1883 – 21 February 1946) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * '' The Man in the Cellar'' (1914) * '' Under the Lantern'' (1928) * '' Eva in Silk'' (1928) * '' Lemke's Widow'' (1928) * '' When the Mother and the Daughter'' (1928) * '' The Strange Night of Helga Wangen'' (1928) * '' Death Drive for the World Record'' (1929) * ''Children of the Street'' (1929) * ''Zwei Brüder'' (1929) * ''Woman in the Moon'' (1929) * '' Roses Bloom on the Moorland'' (1929) * '' Sin and Morality'' (1929) * '' Giftgas'' (1929) * ''Masks'' (1929) * '' Painted Youth'' (1929) * '' The Cabinet of Doctor Larifari'' (1930) * '' Rag Ball'' (1930) * '' Marriage Strike'' (1930) * '' My Leopold'' (1931) * '' Grock'' (1931) * '' Without Meyer, No Celebration is Complete'' (1931) * ''Marriage with Limited Liability'' (1931) * '' Different Morals'' (1931) * '' Crime Reporter Holm'' (1932) * '' Between Night and Dawn'' (1931) * '' A Crafty Youth'' (1931) * '' Bobby Gets Going ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Rotmund
Ernst Rotmund (26 November 1886 – 2 March 1955) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1917 to 1954. Selected filmography References External links * 1886 births 1955 deaths German male film actors German male silent film actors People from Toruń 20th-century German male actors {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Etlinger
Karl Etlinger (16 October 1879 – 8 May 1946) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1914 and 1946. Selected filmography * '' The Eternal Curse'' (1921) * '' The Poisoned Stream'' (1921) * '' The Films of Princess Fantoche'' (1921) * '' Lumpaci the Vagabond'' (1922) * ''Nosferatu'' (1922) * '' What Belongs to Darkness'' (1922) * '' The Lodging House for Gentleman'' (1922) * '' Phantom'' (1922) * '' Countess Donelli'' (1924) * ''Debit and Credit'' (1924) * '' The Man at Midnight'' (1924) * '' Zigano'' (1925) * ''The Girl with a Patron'' (1925) * '' We'll Meet Again in the Heimat'' (1926) * '' One Does Not Play with Love'' (1926) * '' Fadette'' (1926) * '' Young Blood'' (1926) * '' Bigamie'' (1927) * '' That Was Heidelberg on Summer Nights'' (1927) * '' The Bordellos of Algiers'' (1927) * '' Family Gathering in the House of Prellstein'' (1927) * '' Katharina Knie'' (1929) * ''Napoleon at Saint Helena'' (1929) * ''The Woman One Longs For'' (1929) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Neagle
Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox (''née'' Robertson; 20 October 1904 – 3 June 1986), known professionally as Anna Neagle, was an English stage and film actress, singer, and dancer. She was a successful box-office draw in the British cinema for 20 years and was voted the most popular star in Britain in 1949. She was known for providing glamour and sophistication to war-torn London audiences with her lightweight musicals, comedies, and historical dramas. Almost all of her films were produced and directed by Herbert Wilcox, whom she married in 1943. In her historical dramas, Neagle was renowned for her portrayals of British historical figures, including Nell Gwyn (''Nell Gwyn'', 1934), Queen Victoria (''Victoria the Great'', 1937 and ''Sixty Glorious Years'', 1938), Edith Cavell (''Nurse Edith Cavell'', 1939), and Florence Nightingale (''The Lady with a Lamp'', 1951). Biography Early life Neagle was born in Forest Gate, Essex, daughter of Florence Neagle and her husban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Wilcox
Herbert Sydney Wilcox CBE (19 April 1890 – 15 May 1977) was a British film producer and director. He was one of the most successful British filmmakers from the 1920s to the 1950s. He is best known for the films he made with his third wife Anna Neagle. Early life Wilcox's mother was from County Cork, Ireland, and Wilcox considered himself Irish, but he was born in Norwood, south London.7 Dagmar Villas, Gipsy Road. ''Mr Michael Thornton'' re Mr Herbert Wilcox. ''The Times'', Thursday, 19 May 1977; p. 18; Issue 60007; col F His family moved to Brighton when Wilcox was eight years old; he was one of five children. His family were poor and Wilcox had to do a number of part-time jobs, including some work as a chorus boy at the local Hippodrome. His mother died of tuberculosis when she was 42. Wilcox left school before the age of fourteen to find work. Shortly afterwards, his father died at the age of 42. Wilcox began earning money as a professional pool player at the Metropo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Maxims
''Three Maxims'' is a 1936 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Tullio Carminati and Leslie Banks. It was released in the United States under the alternative title '' The Show Goes On''. Separate French and German language versions were filmed 1935 in Paris. The film's sets were designed by Wilcox's regular art director Lawrence P. Williams. Premise A love triangle causes major disruption to the harmony of a trapeze act. Cast * Anna Neagle – Pat * Tullio Carminati – Toni * Leslie Banks – Mac * Arthur Finn – Hiram K. Winston * Olive Blakeney – Mrs Winston * Miki Hood – Valentine * Anthony Ireland – Val * Nicolas Koline – Niki * Gaston Palmer – Juggler * Leonard Snelling – Prodigy * Winifred Oughton – Prodigy's Mother * Beatrix Fielden-Kaye – Madame Thomas * Laurence Hanray – Thomas * Tarva Penna – Doctor * Vincent Holman – Cafe Proprietor * Henry Caine – Stage Manager * Horace Hodges – Mike Other film ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Piménoff
Serge Piménoff (1895–1960) was a Russian-born French art director. He designed the sets for the 1958 film ''Les Misérables''.Hayward p.232 Selected filmography * '' Nights of Princes'' (1930) * '' The Unknown Singer'' (1931) * '' Sailor's Song'' (1932) * '' King of the Hotel'' (1932) * ''Variety'' (1935) * '' Nitchevo'' (1936) * '' The Volga Boatman'' (1936) * ''The Alibi'' (1937) * '' Street of Shadows'' (1937) * '' Return at Dawn'' (1938) * ''Savage Brigade'' (1939) * ''The Pavilion Burns'' (1941) * '' The Benefactor'' (1942) * '' The London Man'' (1943) * ''Panic (Panique)'' (1946) * ''Without Leaving an Address'' (1951) * '' Napoleon Road'' (1953) * '' Service Entrance'' (1954) * ''The Case of Doctor Laurent'' (1957) * ''Les Misérables ''Les Misérables'' ( , ) is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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