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Fadette
''Fadette'' (german: Die lachende Grille) is a 1926 German silent film, silent historical film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Yvette Guilbert and Eugen Klöpfer.Grange p. 242 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Andrej Andrejew and Alexander Ferenczy. Cast * Lya Mara as Die kleine Fadette * Yvette Guilbert as Die alte Fadette * Eugen Klöpfer as Barbeau * Harry Liedtke as Landry * Ernö Verebes as Sylvaine * Eugen Burg as James Mayer de Rothschild, Baron Rothschild * Dagny Servaes as George Sand * Alfred Abel as Frédéric Chopin, Chopin * Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Gioachino Rossini, Rossini * Max Grünberg as Heinrich Heine * Hanns Waschatko as Niccolò Paganini, Paganini * Ferdinand von Alten as Louis Philippe I, the Duke of Orleans * Wilhelm Diegelmann as Der Wirt * Hermann Picha as Ein alter Bauer * Harry Berber * Karl Etlinger * Karl Platen * Berta Scheven * Hans Heinrich von Twardowski References Bibliography * Grange, William. ''Cultural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Petite Fadette
''La Petite Fadette'', also published in English under the titles ''Little Fadette. A Domestic Story'' (1849), ''Fadette. A Domestic Story'' (1851) and ''Little Fadette'' (1967), is an 1849 in literature, 1849 novel written by French novelist George Sand, born Amantine Dupin. Sand wrote the rural story together with ''La Mare au Diable'' and ''François le Champi'' in the 1840s as she returned from Paris to the countryside of Châteauroux. The novel is one of Sand's best known today. Plot The novel takes place in the 19th-century French countryside. The parents of Landry and Sylvinet, identical twin brothers, who are respectable and relatively rich farmers, do not follow the advice that is given at the twins' birth to keep separating and distinguishing them from each other while they are still young. Consequently, the twins grow up together. Although they are opposites, with Landry the less emotional, more conventionally strong twin, and Sylvinet, the less physically strong and mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Sand
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than both Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era, with more than 70 novels to her credit and 50 volumes of various works including novels, tales, plays and political texts. Like her great-grandmother, Louise Dupin, whom she admired, George Sand stood up for women, advocated passion, castigated marriage and fought against the prejudices of a conservative society. Personal life Childhood Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, the future George Sand, was born on 1 July 1804 in Paris on Meslay Street to Maurice Dupin de Francueil and Sophie-Victoire Delaborde. She was the paternal great-granddaughter of the Marshal of Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederic Zelnik
Frederic Zelnik (born Friedrich Zelnik, 17 May 1885 – 29 November 1950) was an Austrian producer, director, and actor. He was one of the most important producers-directors of the German silent cinema. Zelnik achieved success through period operetta films in the 1920s and 1930s. Biography Friedrich Zelnik was born into a Jews, Jewish family in Czernowitz, today in Ukraine, at the time the capital of the Duchy of Bukovina in the Austrian part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. After studying in Vienna, Friedrich Zelnik worked as an actor in theaters in Nürnberg, Theater Aachen, Aachen, Worms, Germany, Worms, Prague and finally Berlin - in the theaters Theater an der Königsgrätzer Straße, Berliner Theater, and Komödienhaus. In 1914 Friedrich Zelnik began acting in films, and after 1915 producing and directing movies while still appearing in roles as an actor in other director'films. In 1918 he married a young Polish ballet dancer turned film actress named Lya Mara and promoted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Ferenczy
Alexander Ferenczy (1895–1931) was a Hungarian art director.Tabori p.70 Selected filmography * ''Samson and Delilah (1922 film), Samson and Delilah'' (1922) * ''The Portrait (1923 film), The Portrait'' (1923) * ''Fadette'' (1926) * ''Attorney for the Heart'' (1927) * ''The Gypsy Baron (1927 film), The Gypsy Baron'' (1927) * ''Modern Pirates'' (1928) * ''Escape from Hell (1928 film), Escape from Hell'' (1928) * ''Casanova's Legacy'' (1928) * ''My Sister and I (1929 film), My Sister and I'' (1929) * ''Checkmate (1931 film), Checkmate'' (1931) * ''Alarm at Midnight'' (1931) References Bibliography * Tabori, Paul. ''Alexander Korda''. Living Books, 1966. External links * 1895 births 1931 deaths Hungarian art directors Film people from Budapest {{Hungary-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Friedrich Rudolf Klein (24 November 1885 – 29 May 1955), better known as Rudolf Klein-Rogge, was a German film actor, best known for playing sinister figures in films in the 1920s and 1930s as well as being a mainstay in director Fritz Lang's Weimar-era films. He is probably best known in popular culture, particularly to English-speaking audiences, for playing the archetypal mad scientist role of C. A. Rotwang in Lang's ''Metropolis'' and as the criminal genius Doctor Mabuse. Klein-Rogge also appeared in several important French films in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Biography Friedrich Rudolf Klein was born in Cologne, Germany on 24 November 1885. His father, Hermann Rudolf Klein, was a military lawyer who served as (the equivalent of Judge Advocate General) for the 15th Division of the Prussian Army, garrisoned at Cologne. His mother, Maria Bertha Emma Rose, was the daughter of a prominent landowner () in Lichteinen, East Prussia. The elder Klein hoped his son would fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Abel
Alfred Peter Abel (12 March 1879 – 12 December 1937) was a German film actor, director, and producer. He appeared in more than 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938. His best-known performance was as Joh Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film ''Metropolis''. Early life Born in Leipzig in the German Empire on 12 March 1879, Alfred Peter Abel was the son of Louis Abel, a peddler, and Anna Maria Selma.Alfred Abel biography Abel had several careers before becoming an actor. In his early adulthood, Abel first studied to be a forester and later studied gardening in Saxon . He changed his area of study to business in hopes of becoming a businessman. A short study of art drafting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dagny Servaes
Dagny Servaes (10 March 1894 – 10 July 1961) was a German-Austrian stage and film actress. In the theatre she appeared in the productions of Max ReinhardtStyan p.89 and Berthold Brecht. Servaes appeared in around sixty films during her career, initially in lead and later in supporting roles. One of her earliest screen performances was in the 1917 propaganda film ''Dr. Hart's Diary''. She also voiced the character of the evil queen in a German language dub of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs made for the Austrian market in 1938. Personal life Servaes was born in Berlin in the German Empire (present day Germany) to parents Martha (née Haese) and Franz Theodor Hubert Servaes. She had with Erwin Goldarbeiter, a daughter, Evi Servaes, who also became an actress in movies and on stage. She had a brother, Roderich Servaes, whose son Arnim became a stage actor as well. Through her father, she was cousins with Vice Admiral Reginald Servaes. She is also distant cousins to Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugen Burg
Eugen Burg (6 January 1871 – 17 April 1944) was a German actor. His daughter was Hansi Burg. Burg was a close friend of the actor Hans Albers. Burg was born Eugen Hirschburg into a Jewish family, but later converted to Protestantism. He was banished from the film industry when the Nazi Party came to power in Germany. He later died in Theresienstadt concentration camp. Selected filmography * '' Robert and Bertram'' (1915) * '' In the Castle by the Lake'' (1918) * '' The Secret of Wera Baranska'' (1919) * '' The Secret of the Scaffold'' (1919) * '' A Night in Paradise'' (1919) * '' Colonel Chabert'' (1920) * '' The Black Panther'' (1921) * ''Violet'' (1921) * ''Fridericus Rex'' (1922) * ''Circus People'' (1922) * ''Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King'' (1922) * ''The Island of Tears'' (1923) * '' Old Heidelberg'' (1923) * ''The Wonderful Adventure'' (1924) * ''Gobseck'' (1924) * ''The Third Squadron'' (1926) * ''Wrath of the Seas'' (1926) * '' Fadette'' (1926) * ''Eyes Open, Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Liedtke
Harry Liedtke (12 October 1882 – 28 April 1945) was a German film actor. Early life Liedtke was born in Königsberg, East Prussia to a merchant as the seventh out of 12 children. After the death of his father in 1896, he grew up in an orphanage and began a qualification in retail business. By the chance acquaintance of Hans Oberländer, a stage director at Berlin, he started to take stage classes and was first engaged at the municipal Theater of Freiberg, Saxony. In 1908 Liedtke worked at the New German Theatre in New York City and in 1909 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Career In 1912 Liedtke appeared for the first time in the silent movie ''Zu spät'' and from now on usually as a young "Charming Boy" and gentleman. With Ernst Lubitsch he made movies like ''Das fidele Gefängnis'' (1917), ''Die Augen der Mumie Ma'' (1918), ''Carmen'' (1918), '' Die Austernprinzessin'' (1919), ''Madame DuBarry'' (1919), '' Sumurun'' (1920) and '' Das Weib des Pharao'' (1921). He also appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Diegelmann
Wilhelm Diegelmann (28 September 1861 – 1 March 1934) was a German actor. Career Diegelmann's first stage appearance was in 1878 in the chorus for the Frankfurt Opera. In 1881 he debuted at the Frankfurt City Theater, playing King Lear, William Tell, and other title characters. Sometime around 1900, Diegelmann relocated to Berlin. Here, he appeared at a variety of theaters, including the Deutsches Theater, the Großes Schauspielhaus, and the Deutsches Künstlertheater. Diegelmann was introduced to film in 1913 by Max Reinhardt. he became a prolific actor of supporting roles, often as a father figure. He performed in the well-known film '' Der Blaue Engel'' (The Blue Angel), where he played a ship captain who flirts with the lead actress (Marlene Dietrich). The final film he starred in was the Theodor Storm adaptation of ''Der Schimmelreiter'' (The Rider on the White Horse). He continued to make stage appearances after this, with his last role being in ''Rembrandt vor Gericht ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Willy Schmidt-Gentner (6 April 1894 – 12 February 1964) was one of the most successful German composers of film music in the history of German-language cinema. He moved to Vienna in 1933. At his most productive, he scored up to 10 films a year, including numerous classics and masterpieces of the German and Austrian cinema. Life Schmidt-Gentner was born in Neustadt am Rennsteig in Thuringia, Germany. During his childhood he learnt the violin and took lessons in composition from Max Reger. After World War I Schmidt-Gentner worked as a civil servant checking that cinema owners were paying their full taxes. Through one of his clients he got a position as a band leader at film theatre performances. This raised his interest in films and as early as 1922 he produced his first composition to accompany a silent film. He performed many of his new pieces himself on the piano during films. He was also already responsible at this period for the sound tracks of a number of German classic film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Carlsen
Fanny Carlsen was a German screenwriter of the silent era. As she was Jewish she was likely forced to emigrate with the Nazi Party's coming to power in 1933, although her exact fate is unknown.Nelmes & Selbo Selected filmography * ''The Yellow Diplomat'' (1920) * '' The Law of the Desert'' (1920) * ''Kri-Kri, the Duchess of Tarabac'' (1920) * ''Fanny Elssler'' (1920) * ''Count Varenne's Lover'' (1921) * ''The Convict of Cayenne'' (1921) * ''Miss Beryll'' (1921) * ''Memoirs of a Film Actress'' (1921) * ''Trix, the Romance of a Millionairess'' (1921) * '' The Buried Self'' (1921) * ''The Mistress of the King'' (1922) * ''Insulted and Humiliated'' (1922) * '' The Marriage of Princess Demidoff'' (1922) * ''Tania, the Woman in Chains'' (1922) * ''Lyda Ssanin'' (1923) * ''The Men of Sybill'' (1923) * ''Resurrection'' (1923) * ''Irene of Gold'' (1923) * ''The Girl from Hell'' (1923) * '' Daisy'' (1923) * '' The Other Woman'' (1924) * '' The Mistress of Monbijou'' (1924) * '' The Sailor Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
