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Chauffeur Antoinette
''Chauffeur Antoinette'' is a 1932 German comedy film directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Charlotte Ander, Hans Adalbert Schlettow and Walter Steinbeck. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Czerwonski. A British remake ''The Love Contract'' was produced the same yearWright p.45 and a French version ''Antoinette'' was also released. Synopsis Antoinette, a wealthy young widow, runs into financial difficulties after investing in the stock markets and is forced to sell her villa and car. By chance one day she encounters William P. Harrison, the speculator responsible for her losses who is now the owner of her house. After she helps fix his car, he offers her a bet. If she can work as his chauffeur for three months without any problems he will restore her lost fortune to her. In spite of the fact he tries to make things as difficult as possible for her, the two gradually fall in love. Cast * Charlotte Ander as A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Selpin
Herbert Selpin (29 May 1904 – 1 August 1942) was a German film director and screenwriter of light entertainment during the 1930s and 1940s. He is best known for his final film, the partly suppressed ''Titanic (1943 film), Titanic'', during the production of which he was arrested by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. He was later found dead in his prison cell. Life and career Herbert Selpin was born on 29 May 1904 in Berlin. After his medical studies in the same city, Selpin worked as a dancer, boxer, librarian, and art seller before he obtained, in the mid-1920s, an internship at the prestigious Universum Film AG, UFA film studios. Among other assignments at UFA, he worked on the set of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's ''Faust (1926 film), Faust'' (1926). Selpin was subsequently employed by the European subsidiary of the Fox Film Corporation, where he held several positions, including – in 1927 – that of director's assistant to Walther Ruttmann on the set of ''Berlin: Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Love Contract
''The Love Contract'' is a 1932 British musical film directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Winifred Shotter, Owen Nares and Sunday Wilshin. The screenplay concerns a young woman who becomes the driver of a wealthy stockbroker who lost her family's savings. It was based on a play by Jean de Letraz, Suzette Desty and Roger Blum. It was produced by Herbert Wilcox's company British & Dominions Film Corporation.Sutton p.263 Alternate language versions were made in French ('' Conduisez-moi Madame'') and in German (''Chauffeur Antoinette''), both of which were also directed by Selpin. Cast * Winifred Shotter as Antoinette * Owen Nares as Neville Cardington * Sunday Wilshin as Mrs. Savage * Miles Malleson as Peters * Gibb McLaughlin as Hodge * Spencer Trevor as Mr. Savage * Frank Harvey as Bank Manager * Cosmo Kyrle Bellew Cosmo Kyrle Bellew (November 23, 1883–January 25, 1948) was a British/American vaudeville and film actor. Cosmo Bellew in 1925 Biography Bellew, the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Willy Kayser
Charles Willy Kayser (28 January 1881 – 10 July 1942) was a German film actor. He was born in Metz, Lorraine, Germany (now, Moselle, France) and died at the age of 61 in 1942. Selected filmography * ''Anita Jo'' (1919) * '' The Clan'' (1920) * '' Va banque'' (1920) * ''The House of Torment'' (1921) * ''The Black Spider'' (1921) * '' Miss Venus'' (1921) * ''Miss Beryll'' (1921) * '' The Eternal Curse'' (1921) * '' Deceiver of the People'' (1921) * '' Count Festenberg'' (1922) * '' The Marriage of Princess Demidoff'' (1922) * '' Dance of Passions'' (1922) * ''The Golden Net'' (1922) * ''Circus People'' (1922) * '' The Blonde Geisha'' (1923) * ''Slaves of Love'' (1924) * ''Playing with Destiny'' (1924) * '' Spring Awakening'' (1924) * '' The Prince and the Maid'' (1924) * '' Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days'' (1925) * ''War in Peace'' (1925) * ''Love's Joys and Woes'' (1926) * '' The Eleven Schill Officers'' (1926) * ''The Red Mouse'' (1926) * ''Our Emden'' (1926) * ''The Villa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertold Reissig
Bertold Reissig (born 1877) was a German stage and film actor.Goble p.482 Selected filmography * '' The Crazy Marriage of Laló'' (1918) * ''The Mirror of the World'' (1918) * '' People to Each Other'' (1926) * ''Sister Veronika'' (1927) * ''The Catwalk'' (1927) * ''The Old Fritz'' (1928) * ''Different Morals'' (1931) * ''Chauffeur Antoinette'' (1932) * '' Princess Turandot'' (1934) * '' The Higher Command'' (1935) * ''Across the Desert'' (1936) * ''Madame Bovary'' (1937) * ''Truxa'' (1937) * ''Kitty and the World Conference ''Kitty and the World Conference'' (german: Kitty und die Weltkonferenz) is a 1939 German comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Hannelore Schroth, Fritz Odemar and Christian Gollong. It is a screwball comedy set against the backdr ...'' (1939) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1877 births Year of death unknown German male film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Behmer
Ernst Behmer (22 December 1875 – 26 February 1938) was a prolific German stage and film actor who appeared in more than a hundred films during the silent and early sound eras. Behmer was born in Königsberg, East-Prussia, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia) and died in Berlin at age 62. Selected filmography * ''Ferdinand Lassalle'' (1918) * '' The Enchanted Princess'' (1919) * ''The Commandment of Love'' (1919) * '' State Attorney Jordan'' (1919) * ''Only a Servant'' (1919) * ''Kri-Kri, the Duchess of Tarabac'' (1920) * ''Kean'' (1921) * ''The Story of a Maid'' (1921) * '' The Golden Bullet'' (1921) * '' The Homecoming of Odysseus'' (1922) * ''A Woman, an Animal, a Diamond'' (1923) * ''By Order of Pompadour'' (1924) * ''The Girl with a Patron'' (1925) * ''Children of No Importance'' (1926) * '' The Armoured Vault'' (1926) * ''Watch on the Rhine'' (1926) * ''Love's Joys and Woes'' (1926) * ''The Violet Eater'' (1926) * '' Roses from the South'' (1926) * ''Sister Veronika'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Halm
Harry Halm (born Harry Hermann Hahn; 17 January 1901 – 22 November 1980) was a German film actor. He was the son of director Alfred Halm and took acting lessons with Eduard von Winterstein and Hermann Vallentin. He began his stage career in 1919 at the Schauspielhaus in Potsdam. Selected filmography * ''Friend Ripp'' (1923) * '' The Evangelist'' (1924) * '' Chamber Music'' (1925) * '' Strong Winds'' (1924) * ''The Humble Man and the Chanteuse'' (1925) * '' Love and Trumpets'' (1925) * ''Three Waiting Maids'' (1925) * '' The Untouched Woman'' (1925) * ''The Fire Dancer'' (1925) * ''If Only It Weren't Love'' (1925) * ''Old Mamsell's Secret'' (1925) * ''Princess Trulala'' (1926) * ''Only a Dancing Girl'' (1926) * '' A Sister of Six'' (1926) * '' I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg'' (1926) * '' Die Königin des Varietés'' (1927) * '' Fabulous Lola'' (1927) * ''How Do I Marry the Boss?'' (1927) * '' My Heidelberg, I Can Not Forget You'' (1927) * '' Vacation from Marriage'' (1927) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elza Temary
Elza Temary lsa Temary(12 February 1905 – 16 February 1968) was a Hungarian film actress. Personal life Elza Temary was born Elza Klecker in what is today Timișoara, Romania.(March 4, 1933). Marriage record: Philip Matthiessen Chancellor (25) to Elisabeth Frederica Klecker (28). The Parish Church, St. George Hanover Square, London. City of Westminster Archives Centre; ancestrylibrary.com. (Retrieved June 24, 2021.) After her active film career centered in Berlin, Germany which seems to have ended abruptly as Hitler took power, Elza married wildlife photographer / socialite Philip Chancellor and moved to Montecito, California, next to Santa Barbara. This is shown on the marriage notice at a London church. However, it was announced to the press that she was "Elza Tennair". As Elza Chancellor, she was then occasionally in the press as a socialite and as Philip's wife. The Chancellors later moved to Los Angeles and in 1937 to Beverly Hills. In 1937–38, Elza's husband, Philip w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Falkenstein
Julius Falkenstein (25 February 1879 – 9 December 1933) was a German stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1914 and 1933. Falkenstein was Jewish, but secured a special permit to continue making films following the Nazi rise to power in 1933. He died of natural causes the same year, having made only one further film. Selected filmography * ''Die geheimnisvolle Villa'' (1914) * '' The Princess of Neutralia'' (1917) *'' The Toboggan Cavalier'' (1918) * ''The Oyster Princess'' (1919) * ''The Dancer Barberina'' (1920) * ''The Love of a Thief'' (1920) * ''The Princess of the Nile'' (1920) * '' Romeo and Juliet in the Snow'' (1920) * '' The Haunted Castle'' (1921) * ''The Story of Christine von Herre'' (1921) * '' The Convict of Cayenne'' (1921) * ''Lola Montez, the King's Dancer'' (1922) * '' Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'' (1922) * ''His Excellency from Madagascar'' (1922) * ''Don Juan'' (1922) * ''Das Milliardensouper'' (1923) * '' Earth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Stössel
Ludwig Stössel (12 February 1883 – 29 January 1973) was an actor born in Lockenhaus, now Austria, then Hungary. He was one of many Jewish actors and actresses who were forced to flee Germany when the Nazis came to power in 1933. Biography Stössel began performing on the stage in Austria and Germany when he was only 17. He soon became a successful character actor and performed on the most prestigious stages in Germany, among them the Max Reinhardt, the stage and the in Berlin. Stössel later became a movie actor. His first motion picture was a small role in the silent movie ''In der Heimat, da gibt's ein Wiedersehn!'' (''We'll Meet Again in the Homeland'') in 1926 at the age of 43. He appeared in about a half dozen silent movies in Germany and landed more roles with the arrival of sound. Stössel's first sound movie was Georg Wilhelm Pabst's ''Skandal um Eva'' (''(Scandalous Eva)'') in 1930. The following year, he appeared in Max Neufeld's ''Opernredoute'' (''The Opera Ball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Lind
Georgia Lind (1905–1984) was a German stage and film actress. She appeared in a mixture of leading and supporting roles in films. From the mid-1930s she devoted herself increasingly to the theatre, and post-Second World War she also did a large amount of radio work. One of her final film performances was a small role in Robert A. Stemmle's ''Berliner Ballade'' (1948). She was married to the actor Rudolf Platte. Filmography * ''Yes, Yes, Women Are My Weakness'' (1929) * '' Left of the Isar, Right of the Spree'' (1929) * '' The Youths'' (1929) * ''Distinguishing Features'' (1929) * ''They May Not Marry'' (1929) * ''Painted Youth'' (1929) * '' The Right to Love'' (1930) * '' The Love Market'' (1930) * ''Rag Ball'' (1930) * ''Delicatessen'' (1930) * ''How Do I Become Rich and Happy?'' (1930) * ' (1932) * ''How Shall I Tell My Husband?'' (1932) * '' A Woman Like You'' (1933) * '' Höllentempo'' (1933) * ''The Sandwich Girl'' (1933) * ''The Two Seals'' (1934) * ''Shipwrecked Max'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chauffeur
A chauffeur is a person employed to drive a passenger motor vehicle, especially a luxury vehicle such as a large sedan or limousine. Originally, such drivers were often personal employees of the vehicle owner, but this has changed to specialist chauffeur service companies or individual drivers that provide both driver and vehicle for hire. Some service companies merely provide the driver. History The term ''chauffeur'' comes from the French term for stoker because the earliest automobiles, like their railroad and sea vessel counterparts, were steam-powered and required the driver to stoke the engine. Early petrol/gasoline-powered motor cars, before the advent of electric ignition, were ignited by 'hot tubes' in the cylinder head which had to be pre-heated before the engine would start. Hence the term ''chauffeur'' which, in this context, means something like "heater-upper". The chauffeur would prime the hot tubes at the start of a journey, after which the natural compression ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
