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Anna Boleyn
''Anna Boleyn,'' also known as ''Deception'', is a 1920 German historical film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It stars Henny Porten as Anne Boleyn and Emil Jannings as King Henry VIII. The film was produced by Paul Davidson's Union Film, a subsidiary of the giant German company UFA. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Kurt Richter. The film cost an estimated 8 million marks to make, but was able to recoup this from the sale of the American rights alone which brought in $200,000 (14 million marks). Cast Reception ''Anna Boleyn'' was among Mary Pickford's favorite films, calling it "an example of superb direction and splendid acting, especially that of Emil Jannings. It was the first time on the screen that a King had been made human. It has subtle, satirical humor." Home media The film was released in the US by Kino Lorber as part of the box set "Lubitsch in Berlin" in 2005–2007 with English intertitles. It w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch (; January 29, 1892November 30, 1947) was a German-born American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch". Among his best known works are '' Trouble in Paradise'', ''Design for Living'', ''Ninotchka'', ''The Shop Around the Corner'', ''To Be or Not to Be'' and '' Heaven Can Wait''. In 1946, he received an Honorary Academy Award for his distinguished contributions to the art of the motion picture. Early life Lubitsch was born in 1892 in Berlin, the son of Simon Lubitsch, a tailor, and Anna (née) Lindenstaedt. His family was Ashkenazi Jewish; his father was born in Grodno in the Russian Empire (now Belarus), and his mother was from Wriezen outside Berlin. He turned his back on his father's tailoring business to enter the theater, and by 1911 was a member of Max Reinhar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tempelhof Studios
The Tempelhof Studios are a film studio located in Tempelhof in the German capital of Berlin. They were founded in 1912, during the silent era, by German film pioneer Alfred Duskes, who built a glass-roofed studio on the site with financial backing from the French company Pathé. The producer Paul Davidson's PAGU then took control and constructed a grander structure. The First World War propaganda drama '' The Yellow Passport'', the historical comedy ''Madame DuBarry'' and the expressionist 1920 silent film '' The Golem'' were made there by PAGU. During the 1920s the site came into the hands of the dominant German company UFA which also controlled the Babelsberg and Staaken Studios in the city. It was used for several of the company's major productions during the Weimar Republic including '' The Last Laugh''. It was partly used by Terra Film during the Nazi era. In 1945 the studios were captured by Soviet Army troops during the Battle of Berlin while the shooting of the comed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Biensfeldt
Paul Biensfeldt (4 March 1869 – 2 April 1933) was a German-JewishSiegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 stage and film actor. Selected filmography * '' The Canned Bride'' (1915) * '' The Queen's Love Letter'' (1916) * ''Countess Kitchenmaid'' (1918) * '' The Blue Lantern'' (1918) * ''The Adventure of a Ball Night'' (1918) * '' Carmen'' (1918) * ''The Victors'' (1918) * '' My Wife, the Movie Star'' (1919) * ''The Bodega of Los Cuerros'' (1919) * '' The Spies'' (1919) * ''Harakiri'' (1919) * ''Prince Cuckoo'' (1919) * '' Veritas Vincit'' (1919) * ''A Drive into the Blue'' (1919) * '' Mascotte'' (1920) * '' Va banque'' (1920) * '' Romeo and Juliet in the Snow'' (1920) * '' Sumurun'' (1920) * '' The Hunchback and the Dancer'' (1920) * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1921) * '' The Wild Cat'' (1921) * '' Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'' (1922) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Klein
Adolf Klein (15 August 1847 – 11 March 1931) was an Austrian actor and theatre director. Klein appeared in around sixty films, mainly during the silent era. He appeared in a number of the epics made by the German film industry during the early 1920s such as his role as Cardinal Wolsey in Ernst Lubitsch's '' Anna Boleyn'' (1920).Fletcher p. 191 Selected filmography * '' Dr. Hart's Diary'' (1917) * ''The Mirror of the World'' (1918) * ''The Seeds of Life'' (1918) * '' Veritas Vincit'' (1919) * '' The Panther Bride'' (1919) * '' The Loves of Käthe Keller'' (1919) * '' Anna Boleyn'' (1920) * '' The Secret of the Mummy'' (1921) * ''Lady Hamilton'' (1921) * ''Ilona'' (1921) * '' The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * '' The Amazon'' (1921) * ''The Inheritance of Tordis'' (1921) * '' The Maharaja's Favourite Wife'' (1921) * ''The Passion of Inge Krafft'' (1921) * ''The Women of Gnadenstein'' (1921) * ''The Three Aunts'' (1921) * '' Phantom'' (1922) * ''Fridericus Rex'' (1922) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Von Alten
Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements "protection", "peace" (PIE "to love, to make peace") or alternatively "journey, travel", Proto-Germanic , abstract noun from root "to fare, travel" (PIE , "to lead, pass over"), and "courage" or "ready, prepared" related to Old High German "to risk, venture." The name was adopted in Romance languages from its use in the Visigothic Kingdom. It is reconstructed as either Gothic or . It became popular in German-speaking Europe only from the 16th century, with Habsburg rule over Spain. Variants of the name include , , , and in Spanish, in Catalan, and and in Portuguese. The French forms are , '' Fernand'', and , and it is '' Ferdinando'' and in Italian. In Hungarian both and are used equally. The Dutch forms are and '' Ferry''. There are numerous short forms in many languages, such as the Finnish . There is a feminine Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form, . Royalty Aragón/León/Castile/Spain *Ferd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Reisenhofer
Maria Reisenhofer (31 December 1869, Graz – 18 April 1947, Berlin) was an Austrian stage and film actress. Selected filmography * ''Anna Boleyn'' (1920) * ''Christian Wahnschaffe'' (1920) * ''Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King'' (1922) * ''The Girl with the Mask'' (1922) * ''The Love Story of Cesare Ubaldi'' (1922) * '' His Wife, The Unknown'' (1923) * ''Rosenmontag'' (1924) * ''Fire of Love'' (1925) * '' The Love Trap'' (1925) * '' Young Blood'' (1926) * ''The Long Intermission'' (1927) * ''Regine'' (1927) * ''The Serfs'' (1928) * ''Only on the Rhine'' (1930) * '' The Page from the Dalmasse Hotel'' (1933) * ''The Private Life of Louis XIV'' (1935) * ''The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky ''The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky'' or ''It Was a Lovely Night at the Ball'' (german: Es war eine rauschende Ballnacht) is a 1939 German historical film, historical drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Zarah Leander, Aribert Wäsch ...'' (1939) Bibliography * Poague, Leland A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Of Aragon
Catherine of Aragon (also spelt as Katherine, ; 16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536) was Queen of England as the first wife of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 11 June 1509 until their annulment on 23 May 1533. She was previously Princess of Wales as the wife of Henry's elder brother, Arthur, Prince of Wales. The daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, Catherine was three years old when she was betrothed to Prince Arthur, heir apparent to the English throne. They married in 1501, but Arthur died five months later. Catherine spent years in limbo, and during this time, she held the position of ambassador of the Aragonese crown to England in 1507, the first known female ambassador in European history. She married Arthur's younger brother, the recently ascended Henry VIII, in 1509. For six months in 1513, she served as regent of England while Henry VIII was in France. During that time the English crushed and defeated a Scottish invasion at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein
Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein (1866–1965) was a German stage and film actress. Selected filmography * '' The Clan'' (1920) * ''Anna Boleyn'' (1920) * ''President Barrada'' (1920) * ''Lady Godiva'' (1921) * '' The Inheritance'' (1922) * ''Tragedy of Love'' (1923) * ''The Countess of Paris'' (1923) * '' Alles für Geld'' (1923) * ''The Little Duke'' (1924) * '' Bismarck'' (1925) * ''Countess Maritza'' (1925) * '' State Attorney Jordan'' (1926) * '' The Master of Death'' (1926) * ''Professor Imhof '' (1926) * '' The Mistress'' (1927) * ''Ludwig II, King of Bavaria ''Ludwig II, King of Bavaria'' (german: Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by William Dieterle and starring Dieterle, Theodor Loos and Eugen Burg. It portrays the life and reign of the monarch ...'' (1929) Bibliography * Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. ''Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene''. Berghahn Books, 1999. External links * 1866 births 1965 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour (c. 150824 October 1537) was List of English consorts, Queen of England as the third wife of King Henry VIII of England from their Wives of Henry VIII, marriage on 30 May 1536 until her death the next year. She became queen following the execution of Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn. She died of postnatal complications less than two weeks after the birth of her only child, the future King Edward VI. She was the only wife of Henry to receive a queen's funeral or to be buried beside him in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Early life Jane, the daughter of John Seymour (1474–1536), Sir John Seymour and Margery Wentworth, was most likely born at Wulfhall, Wiltshire, although West Bower Manor in Somerset has also been suggested. Her birth date is not recorded; various accounts use anywhere from 1504 to 1509, but it is generally estimated around 1508. Through her maternal grandfather, she was a descendant of King Edward III's son Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aud Egede-Nissen
Aud Egede-Nissen (30 May 1893 – 15 November 1974) was a Norwegian actress, director and producer. She appeared in many early 20th-century German silent films. Early life Born in Bergen, Norway in 1893, Egede-Nissen was a daughter of Norwegian postmaster and politician Adam Hjalmar Egede-Nissen (1868–1953) and his wife Georga "Goggi" Wilhelma Ellertsen (1871–1959); she had ten siblings. Four younger sisters and two younger brothers all became actors as well: Gerd Grieg (1895–1988), Ada Kramm (1899–1981), Oscar Egede-Nissen (1903–1976), Stig Egede-Nissen (1907–1988), Lill Egede-Nissen (1909–1962) and Gøril Havrevold (1914–1992). German film career Aud made her acting debut on the Norwegian stage in 1911, appearing next in Norwegian director Bjørn Bjørnson's 1913 film ''Scenens børn''. In 1913 she moved to Denmark and started working for Dania Biofilm Kompagni in Copenhagen. In 1914, Bjørn Bjørnson invited her to Berlin, where there were opportunitie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Hartau
Ludwig Hartau (19 February 1877 – 24 November 1922) was a German actor. Selected filmography * '' The Dancer'' (1915) * '' Hungernde Millionäre'' (1919) * ''Baccarat'' (1919) * '' The Three Dances of Mary Wilford'' (1920) * ''Anna Boleyn'' (1920) * ''Four Around a Woman'' (1921) * ''Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King'' (1922) * ''Maciste and the Silver King's Daughter'' (1922) * ''Napoleon's Daughter'' (1922) * '' Two Worlds'' (1922) * ''Today's Children'' (1922) * ''The Treasure of Gesine Jacobsen ''The Treasure of Gesine Jacobsen'' (German: ''Der Schatz der Gesine Jakobsen'') is a 1923 German silent drama film directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein and starring Marija Leiko, Paul Wegener and Reinhold Schünzel. It premiered in Berlin Be ...'' (1923) * '' The Beautiful Girl'' (1923) Bibliography * Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. ''Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene''. Berghahn Books, 1999. External links * 1877 births 1922 deaths People from Żmigród ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Papiermark
The Papiermark (; 'paper mark', officially just ''Mark'', sign: ℳ) was the German currency from 4 August 1914 when the link between the Goldmark and gold was abandoned, due to the outbreak of World War I. In particular, the Papiermark was the currency issued during the hyperinflation in Germany of 1922 and 1923. History From 1914, the value of the mark fell. The rate of inflation rose following the end of World War I and reached its highest point in October 1923. The currency stabilized in November 1923 after the announcement of the creation of the Rentenmark, although the Rentenmark did not come into circulation until 1924. When it did, it replaced the Papiermark at the rate of 1 trillion (1012)-ℳ to RM1. On 30 August 1924 the Rentenmark was replaced by the Reichsmark. In addition to the issues of the government, emergency issues of both tokens and paper money, known as ''Kriegsgeld'' (war money) and ''Notgeld'' (emergency money), were produced by local authorities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
