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A Modern Dubarry
''A Modern Dubarry'' (German: ''Eine Dubarry von heute'') is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring María Corda, Alfred Abel and Friedrich Kayßler. Chandler, Charlotte. ''Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, A Personal Biography''. Simon and Schuster, 2011. p. 50. A young woman working at a dressmakers rises to become a model and entertainer before falling in love with a King. The title is a reference to the life of the eighteenth century courtesan Madame Du Barry. It was made by Felsom Film and distributed by the major studio UFA. The film's sets were designed by the art director Oscar Friedrich Werndorff. It features performances from Hans Albers and Marlene Dietrich both of whom later achieved greater fame. Cast * María Corda as Toinette *Alfred Abel as Sillon *Friedrich Kayßler as Cornelius Corbett *Gyula Szőreghy as Gen. Padilla *Jean Bradin as King Sandor *Hans Albers as Toinette's first lover * Alfred Gerasch as Graf Rabbatz *Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlene Dietrich
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" DietrichBorn as Maria Magdalena, not Marie Magdalene, according to Dietrich's biography by her daughter, Maria Riva ; however Dietrich's biography by Charlotte Chandler cites "Marie Magdalene" as her birth name . (, ; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s. In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich performed on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in Josef von Sternberg's ''The Blue Angel'' (1930) brought her international acclaim and a contract with Paramount Pictures. She starred in many Hollywood films, including six iconic roles directed by Sternberg: ''Morocco'' (1930) (her only Academy Award nomination), ''Dishonored'' (1931), '' Shanghai Express'' and ''Blonde Venus'' (both 1932), ''The Scarlet Empress'' (1934) and '' The Devil Is a Woman'' (1935), ''Desire'' (1936) and ''Destry Rides Again'' (1939). She successfully traded on her glamorous persona a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Model (person)
A model is a person with a role either to promote, display or advertise commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows) or to serve as a visual aid for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography. Though models are predominantly female, there are also male models, especially to model clothing. Models may work professionally or casually. Modelling ("modeling" in American English) is considered to be different from other types of public performance, such as acting or dancing. Although the difference between modelling and performing is not always clear, appearing in a film or a play is not generally considered to be "modelling". Similarly, appearing in a TV advertisement is generally not considered modelling. Modelling generally does not involve speaking. Personal opinions are generally not expressed and a model's reputation and image are considered critical. Types of modelling include: fashion, glamour, fitness, bikini, fine art, body-part, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Platen
Karl Platen (6 March 1877 – 4 July 1952) was a German actor and cinematographer known for '' Girl in the Moon'' (1929) and '' M'' (1931). Biography Karl Platen was born as Carl Platen on March 6, 1877 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. He died on July 4, 1952 in Weimar, German Democratic Republic at the age of 75. Selected filmography * ''Ein Ausgestoßener'' (1913, part 1) * ''Der Katzensteg'' (1915) - Pfarrer * ''Die Erben des Geizhalses'' (1915) - Pflegesohn von Riedel Hermann * ''The Japanese Woman'' (1919) * ''Hängezöpfchen'' (1919) - Prof. Hahnensporn * ''Das rosa Strumpfbändchen'' (1919) * '' The Boy in Blue'' (1919) - Alter Diener / Old servant * ''The Foolish Heart'' (1919, Short) * ''The Bodega of Los Cuerros'' (1919) * '' Madame Du Barry'' (1919) - Guillaume Dubarry * ''Der rote Sarafan'' (1919) * ''Seine Beichte (Bekenntnisse eines Lebemannes)'' (1919) - Diener Franz * '' Irrlicht'' (1919) * ''The Golden Lie'' (1919) * ''Die fremde Frau'' (1919) * ''Der Mitter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Wassmann
Hans Wassmann (1 January 1873 – 5 April 1932) was a German film actor.Chandler p.271 Selected filmography * '' Laugh Bajazzo'' (1915) * '' Miss Venus'' (1921) * '' Louise de Lavallière'' (1922) * '' A Glass of Water'' (1923) * '' Nanon'' (1924) * '' Garragan'' (1924) * '' The Great Unknown'' (1924) * '' The Love Trap'' (1925) * ''Hussar Fever'' (1925) * '' Chaste Susanne'' (1926) * '' Queen Louise'' (1927) * ''Dancing Vienna'' (1927) * '' Light-Hearted Isabel'' (1927) * '' A Modern Dubarry'' (1927) * '' The Master of Nuremberg'' (1927) * ''Luther'' (1928) * ''My Wife, the Impostor'' (1931) * ''Ronny'' (1931) * '' The Captain from Köpenick'' (1931) * '' The Battle of Bademunde'' (1931) * ''Shooting Festival in Schilda'' (1931) * '' Queen of the Night'' (1931) * '' The Mad Bomberg'' (1932) * ''The Office Manager'' (1932) * ''Scandal on Park Street ''Scandal on Park Street'' (german: Skandal in der Parkstraße) is a 1932 German film directed by Franz Wenzler and starring Camil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Paulig
Albert Paulig (14 January 1873 – 19 March 1933) was a German film actor who was popular during the silent era. Paulig made his first film in 1914. The following year he appeared in one of Ernst Lubitsch's first directorial attempts, '' A Trip on the Ice'' (1915). Paulig was in a number of Harry Piel, thrillers including '' The Man Without Nerves'' (1924).Grange p. 184 Selected filmography * '' The Firm Gets Married'' (1914) * '' The Platonic Marriage'' (1919) * '' The Maharaja's Favourite Wife'' (1921) * '' Love at the Wheel'' (1921) * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * ''The Bull of Olivera'' (1921) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1921) *''The Lost House'' (1922) * ''The Flight into Marriage'' (1922) * ''Only One Night'' (1922) * ''Miss Rockefeller Is Filming'' (1922) * ''Rivals'' (1923) * ''The Weather Station'' (1923) * '' Man Against Man'' (1924) * '' The Man Without Nerves'' (1924) * '' The Brigantine of New York'' (1924) * '' The Creature'' (1924) * ''Zigano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Gerasch
Alfred Gerasch (17 August 1877 – 12 August 1955) was a German film actor.Chandler p.271 Selected filmography * ''The Guilt of Lavinia Morland'' (1920) * ''The Legend of Holy Simplicity'' (1920) * '' The Handicap of Love'' (1921) * ''His Excellency from Madagascar'' (1922) * ''Sins of Yesterday'' (1922) * '' Time Is Money'' (1923) * ''Shadows of the Metropolis'' (1925) * ''The Great Duchess'' (1926) * '' State Attorney Jordan'' (1926) * ''A Modern Dubarry'' (1927) * ''Behind the Altar'' (1927) * '' Queen Louise'' (1927) * ''The Tragedy of a Lost Soul'' (1927) * ''The Lady with the Tiger Skin'' (1927) * ''The Schorrsiegel Affair'' (1928) * '' Yacht of the Seven Sins'' (1928) * '' Odette'' (1928) * ''Spy of Madame Pompadour'' (1928) * ''The Girl from the Provinces'' (1929) * ''Napoleon at Saint Helena'' (1929) * ''Father and Son'' (1930) * ''Reckless Youth'' (1931) * ''1914'' (1931) * '' Ariane'' (1931) * '' Tannenberg'' (1932) * '' Marshal Forwards'' (1932) * '' Trenck'' (1932) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Bradin
Jean Bradin (30 May 1899 – 7 October 1969) was a French actor. Bradin was born in the 5th arrondissement of Paris and died in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. Selected filmography * '' The Island of Despair'' (1926) * '' The Bordellos of Algiers'' (1927) * '' A Modern Dubarry'' (1927) * '' At the Edge of the World'' (1927) * ''Champagne'' (1928) * ''Moulin Rouge'' (1928) * ''Theater'' (1928) * '' Ariadne in Hoppegarten'' (1928) * '' Call at Midnight'' (1929) * ''Miss Europe'' (1930) * ''Le secret du docteur'' (1930) * '' David Golder'' (1931) * '' The Accomplice'' (1932) * ''Law of the North ''Law of the North'' is a 1932 American Western film directed by Harry L. Fraser and starring Bill Cody, Andy Shuford and Nadine Dore.Pitts p.184 It was the penultimate Monogram Pictures eight-film Western film series "the Bill and Andy series" ...'' (1939) Bibliography * St. Pierre, Paul Matthew. ''E.A. Dupont and his Contribution to British Film: Varieté, Moulin Rouge, Piccadil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyula Szőreghy
Gyula Szőreghy (30 November 1887 – 22 December 1942) was a Hungarian film actor. Szőreghy was born in Algyo, Austria-Hungary (now, Hungary) and died in 1942 in Budapest. He was also credited as Julius von Szöreghy. Selected filmography * '' Mary Ann'' (1918) * ''White Rose'' (1919) * ''Oliver Twist'' (1919) * '' Serge Panine'' (1922) * ''Sodom and Gomorrah'' (1922) * '' Masters of the Sea'' (1922) * ''A Vanished World'' (1922) * '' Gypsy Love'' (1922) * '' Young Medardus'' (1923) * ''Gulliver's Travels'' (1924) * ''The Alternative Bride'' (1925) * '' Ship in Distress'' (1925) * ''Women You Rarely Greet'' (1925) * ''Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * ''The Wooing of Eve'' (1926) * ''Darling, Count the Cash'' (1926) * ''The Third Squadron'' (1926) * '' Maytime'' (1926) * ''Unmarried Daughters'' (1926) * ''German Hearts on the German Rhine'' (1926) * ''Two and a Lady'' (1926) * '' Her Highness Dances the Waltz'' (1926) * ''Dancing Vienna'' (1927) * ''The Most Beautiful Legs of Berl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Albers
Hans Philipp August Albers (22 September 1891 – 24 July 1960) was a German actor and singer. He was the biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1960 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century. Early life Hans Albers was born in Hamburg, the son of a butcher, and grew up in the district of St. Georg. He was seriously interested in acting by his late teens and took acting classes without the knowledge of his parents. In 1915 Albers was drafted to serve in the German Army in World War I, but was wounded early on. After his release from the Hospital in Wiesbaden where he had been treated, he performed in the local Residenztheater in comedies, antics and operettas. After the war Albers moved to Berlin, where he found work as a comedic actor in various Weimar-Era Berlin theatres. His breakthrough performance was that of a waiter in the play ''Verbrecher'' (Criminals). It was also in Berlin that Albers began a long-term relationship with Jewish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Friedrich Werndorff
Oscar Friedrich Werndorff (1880–1938) was an Austrian art director. After leaving Germany in the early 1930s he moved to Britain where he worked in the British film industry. He co-directed the 1931 film '' The Bells''.Bergfelder & Cargnelli p.78 Selected filmography Art director * '' The Count of Cagliostro'' (1920) * ''The Story of a Maid'' (1921) * ''Money in the Streets'' (1922) * ''The Daughter of the Brigadier'' (1922) * '' The Slipper Hero'' (1923) * ''The Three Marys'' (1923) * ''The Wonderful Adventure'' (1924) * '' Carlos and Elisabeth'' (1924) * '' Man Against Man'' (1924) * ''Unmarried Daughters'' (1926) * '' Nanette Makes Everything'' (1926) * '' A Modern Dubarry'' (1927) * ''Always Be True and Faithful'' (1927) * '' Heaven on Earth'' (1927) * '' Odette'' (1928) * '' Dyckerpotts' Heirs'' (1928) * ''The Singing City'' (1930) * '' The First Mrs. Fraser'' (1932) * '' The Camels Are Coming'' (1934) * ''Forbidden Territory'' (1934) * ''Heat Wave'' (1935) * '' Fighti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it visual communication, communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style (visual arts), style(s) to use, and when to use motion graphic design, motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Distribution
Film distribution (also known as Film exhibition or Film distribution and exhibition) is the process of making a movie available for viewing by an audience. This is normally the task of a professional film distributor, who would determine the marketing and release strategy for the film, the media by which a film is to be exhibited or made available for viewing and other matters. The film may be exhibited directly to the public either through a movie theater or television, or personal home viewing (including physical media, video-on-demand, download, television programs through broadcast syndication). For commercial projects, film distribution is usually accompanied by film promotion. History Initially, all mass-marketed feature films were made to be shown in movie theaters. The identity of the first theater designed specifically for cinema is a matter of debate; candidates include Tally's Electric Theatre, established 1902 in Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh's Nickelodeon, established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
