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Felix Jackson
Felix Jackson (born Felix Joachimson; June 5, 1902 – December 7, 1992) was a German-born American screenwriter and film producer. Biography Jackson was born in Hamburg. He was a city editor in Germany at 21, then a dramatic and music critic, and helped manage three theaters in Berlin. He joined Joe Pasternak as a producer in Budapest in 1933. He began working in the German film industry, before relocating after the rise of the Nazi party. He moved to Austria and Hungary in the mid-1930s where he frequently collaborated with the director Henry Koster. His screenplay for the 1935 film '' Little Mother'' served as the basis for a Hollywood remake ''Bachelor Mother'' (1939) which was nominated for an Academy Award. Jackson moved to Hollywood in the late 1930s, writing the screenplay for ''Destry Rides Again'' (1939) a western starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich. Naturalised U.S. citizen December 13, 1940, he was active in the European Film Fund, which provided support to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamburg
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Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
''Pulitzer Prize Playhouse'' is an American television anthology drama series which offered adaptations of Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, novels, and stories. The distinguished journalist Elmer Davis was the host and narrator of this 1950-1952 ABC series. Sponsor Sponsored by Milwaukee's Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, the 60-minute show opened with theme music by Bernard Green. Columbia University's Pulitzer School of Journalism, which made the annual Pulitzer awards, benefited from its agreement with Schlitz and ABC, receiving $100,000 from Schlitz for its cooperation. However, the show made no mention of Columbia or the Pulitzer School of Journalism. Productions and performers Plays in the first season included '' You Can't Take It with You'' (the initial telecast), ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' and ''Our Town''. The second season productions included ''Ah, Wilderness'' and ''The Skin of Our Teeth''. Actors in these shows included Spring Byington, Charles Dingle, James Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rage Of Paris
''The Rage of Paris'' is a 1938 American comedy film made by Universal Pictures. The movie was directed by Henry Koster, and written by Bruce Manning and Felix Jackson. It won the Venice Film Festival for Special Recommendation. Re-issued by Realart in 1951 re-titled 'Confessions of a Model.' Plot In New York City, Frenchwoman Nicole de Cortillon seeks modeling work and manages to steal a name and address from a modeling agency by lying about her qualifications, but it is the wrong information. She starts undressing in the advertising office of a very puzzled Jim Trevor. When she finally realizes he is not a photographer, she storms out. Nicole is locked out of her room by her landlady for being behind on her rent, but her friend Gloria helps her out by paying the arrears. Gloria suggests she try to snare a rich husband. Gloria is good friends with Mike, the head waiter at the ritzy Savoy Grand Hotel, so she tries to get him to hire Gloria. Mike has no openings, but mentions th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mad About Music
''Mad About Music'' is a 1938 American musical film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, and Gail Patrick. Based on a story by Marcella Burke and Frederick Kohner, the film is about a girl at an exclusive boarding school who invents an exciting father. When her schoolmates doubt his existence, she has to produce him. ''Mad About Music'' received Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Music, and Best Original Story. Plot Gwen Taylor (Gail Patrick) is a famous Hollywood film star and about to become more famous. On her manager's advice, she has concealed from the press the fact that she's a widow with a fourteen-year-old daughter, Gloria (Deanna Durbin). Gloria lives in a girls-only boarding school in Switzerland. Gloria never sees her mother and never knew her father, who died when she was just a baby; he was a navy pilot during wartime. She has invented a fictitious 'father', from who she receives letters, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bubi (film)
Bubi may refer to: * Bubi people, an ethnic group in Central Africa * Bubi language, a Bantu language spoken in Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea * Bubi District, Zimbabwe * Bubi River, a tributary of the Limpopo River in Zimbabwe * BuBi, a bicycle sharing system in Budapest People with the nickname * Josef Bradl (1918–1982), Austrian ski jumper * Erich Hartmann (1922–1993), German fighter pilot * Bubi Rohde (1914–1979), German footballer * Adolf von Thadden Adolf von Thadden (7 July 1921 – 16 July 1996) was a German far-right politician. Born into a leading Pomeranian landowning family, he was the half-brother of Elisabeth von Thadden, a prominent critic of the Nazis who was executed by the Nazi g ... (1921–1996), German politician * Bubi Wallenius (born 1943), Finnish sports commentator See also * Booby (other) {{disambiguation Nicknames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine The Last
''Catherine the Last'' (German: ''Katharina, die Letzte'') is a 1936 Austrian romantic comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Franciska Gaal, Hans Holt and Hans Olden.Bock & Bergfelder p.257 It was made by the Austrian subsidiary of Universal Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erwin Scharf. After making the film Koster moved to Hollywood. In 1938 the film was remade in America as ''The Girl Downstairs'' with Gaal reprising her role. Synopsis After Hans is frustrated in his attempts to see his girlfriend Sybill by her overprotective business tycoon father, he attempts to gain entry into the house by romancing the family's kitchen maid. While at first he simply uses her as a ruse, he eventually falls in love with her instead. Cast * Franciska Gaal as Katharina, Kitchen maid * Hans Holt as Hans von Gerstikow * Hans Olden as Eduard, Hans' friend * Otto Wallburg as Sixtus Braun, Big industrialist * Dorothy Poole as Sybill Braun * Eduard Linke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Four And A Half Musketeers
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other hand, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Precocious Girl
''A Precocious Girl'' (German title: ''Csibi, der Fratz'' aka ''Früchtchen'') is a 1934 Austrian comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and Richard Eichberg and starring Franciska Gaal, Leopoldine Konstantin and Herbert Hübner. The film's sets were designed by art director Julius von Borsody. The film was made by the German subsidiary of Universal Pictures. Because of the Nazi rise to power Gaal and other Jewish filmmakers went to Austria and Hungary to work on a series of comedy films.Bock & Bergfelder p.144 A separate Italian version of the story ''Unripe Fruit'' was released the same year. It was remade in Hollywood in 1942 as ''Between Us Girls'', with the setting moved to America. Cast * Franciska Gaal as Lucie Carell, nicknamed Csibi * Leopoldine Konstantin as Maria, her mother * Herbert Hübner as Hartwig * Friedl Haerlin as Eva, seine Frau * Hermann Thimig as Dr. Werner * Anton Edthofer as Dr. Lohnau * Tibor Halmay as Berky * Theo Lingen as Anton, Diener bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter (1934 Film)
''Peter'' is a 1934 Austrian-Hungarian comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Franciska Gaal, Felix Bressart and Richard Eybner. Plot After a young woman and her grandfather run into financial trouble, she (forced by a thief to wear his clothes) tries to earn money selling newspapers, loudly yelling false news to advertise them. A young doctor arguing that "truth is the mothermilk of the civilisation", destroys the newspapers and tries to leave in his car, but is blocked by her, causing him to destroy a telephone booth. Arrested still wearing the thief's male clothes with his wig found in the trouser pocket, she and grandfather are dragged in front of an understanding but severe judge who make them to pay for the telephone booth. The doctor, moved by the tears for having caused trouble for the 'boy' and her grandfather, asks his garage manager to hire 'him' and secretly pays the fine. When she discovers the doctor has no clients, she starts helping him find some in d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laughing Heirs
''Laughing Heirs'' (german: Lachende Erben) is a 1933 German comedy film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Heinz Rühmann, Max Adalbert, Lien Deyers and Friedrich Ettel.Kreimeier p. 218 It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios, Babelsberg and Tempelhof Studios in Berlin and location filming, on location in the Rhineland. The film's sets were designed by the art director Benno von Arent.The premiere was on 6 March 1933. Synopsis A young salesman may inherit a wine-estate on one condition: he can't drink a drop of alcohol for at least a month. Cast * Heinz Rühmann as Peter Frank * Lien Deyers as Gina, Robert Stumms Tochter * Ida Wüst as Britta Bockelmann * Max Adalbert as Justus Bockelmann * Lizzi Waldmüller as Liane Heller * Julius Falkenstein as Dr. Weinhöppel, Notar * Walter Janssen as Robert Stumm * Friedrich Ettel as Schlemmel, Kellermeister * Elfriede Jera as Sekretärin von Robert Stamm * Heinrich Gotho as Verwandter bei der Testamentseröffnung * Illo Gutschwager as Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Das Häßliche Mädchen
''Das häßliche Mädchen'' ("The Ugly Girl", sometimes translated "The Ugly Duckling") is a German comedy film made in early 1933, during the transition from the Weimar Republic to Nazi Germany, and premièred in September that year. It was the first or second film directed by Hermann Kosterlitz, who left Germany before the film was completed and later worked in the United States under the name Henry Koster, and the last German film in which Dolly Haas appeared; she also later emigrated to the US. A riot broke out at the première to protest the male lead, Max Hansen, who was supposedly "too Jewish." The film's representation of the "ugly girl" as outsider has been described as a metaphorical way to explore the outsider existence of Jews. Background and reception ''Das häßliche Mädchen'' was filmed at the Avanti Tonfilm studios in Grunewald, Berlin in January–February 1933, the first months of Hitler's term as Reich Chancellor. Between filming and the 8 September pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love At First Sight (1932 Film)
''Love at First Sight'' (german: Liebe auf den ersten Ton) is a 1932 German comedy film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Carl Jöken, Lee Parry and Lico Suhrmann. The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Schroedter. Cast *Carl Jöken as Rudolf Niemeyer *Lee Parry as Hilde, wife *Lico Suhrmann as Siegfried, their son *Lizzi Waldmüller as Elisabeth, Duchess von Liebenstein *Adele Sandrock as the Duchess's aunt *Johannes Riemann as Prince Bernhard von Hassenstein *Hans Leibelt as Count Prillwitz, director *Arthur Mainzer as Prime Minister *Karl Etlinger as Wartenberg, theater agent *Rudolf Platte as Crammberg, Prince's adjutant *Hugo Froelich as hotel doorman *Lotte Holz as Elsa von Brabant See also *Love at first sight Love at first sight is a personal experience as well as a common trope in literature: a person or character feels an instant, extreme, and ultimately long-lasting romantic attraction for a stranger upon first seeing that stranger. Described ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
