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Fritzi
Fritzi is a feminine given name and nickname, often a short form ( hypocorism) of Friederike, which may refer to: People * Fritzi Brunette (1890–1943), American film actress * Friederike Fritzi Burger (1910–1999), Austrian figure skater * Fritzi Burr (1924–2003), American actress * Fritzi Courtney (1923–2012), American film actress * Fritzi Fern (1901–1932), American film actress * Fritzi Gordon (died 1992), Austrian-born British bridge player * Fritzi Haberlandt (born 1975), German actress * Friederike Fritzi Löwy (1910–1994), Austrian swimmer * Fritzi Massary (1882–1969), Austrian-American actress and soprano singer born Friederike Massaryk * Fredericka Fritzi Ridgeway (1898–1961), American actress of the silent era * Friederike Fritzi Scheff (1879–1954), American actress and singer * Friederike Fritzi Schwingl (1921–2016), Austrian slalom and sprint canoer Fictional characters * the title character of '' Fritzi Ritz'', an American comic strip (1922 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritzi Ritz
''Fritzi Ritz'' is an American comic strip created in 1922 by Larry Whittington. In 1925, the strip was taken over by Ernie Bushmiller and, in 1938, the daily strip evolved into the popular '' Nancy''. The Sunday edition of the strip, begun by Bushmiller in 1929, continued until 1967. Publication history Distributed by United Feature Syndicate, ''Fritzi Ritz'' began October 9, 1922, in the ''New York Evening World''. Whittington left after three years, and starting May 14, 1925, 20-year-old Bushmiller stepped in as his replacement, eventually modeling Fritzi after his fiancée, Abby Bohnet, whom he married in 1930. In 1931, when the ''Evening World'' and the ''New York Telegram'' merged, ''Fritzi Ritz'' was one of the strips lost in the shuffle, but it returned January 10, 1932, in the ''New York Daily Mirror''. Characters and story Fritzi was initially portrayed as a flapper, whose main concerns were men, clothes, cosmetics, and money. This is a far cry from her more-familiar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritzi – A Revolutionary Tale
''Fritzi: A Revolutionary Tale'' (german: Fritzi - Eine Wendewundergeschichte) is a 2019 German-language animated film directed by and Matthias Bruhn about the Peaceful Revolution in Autumn 1989, told from the perspective of a twelve-year-old girl. A co-production between Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium the Czech Republic and Austria. the film is based on the 2009 German children's book ''Fritzi was There'' by Hanna Schott. Premise 1989 in East Germany. Twelve-year-old Fritzi lovingly takes care of her best friend Sophie's dog Sputnik while Sophie's family is on vacation in Hungary. But when Sophie does not return, Fritzi and Sputnik set out in search of her. The film tells the story of the protests of the citizens against the Communist SED regime of Erich Honecker and Egon Krenz until the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. Voice cast *Naomi Hadad as Fritzi *Ben Hadad as Bela *Jördis Triebel as Julia * as Frau Liesegang *Winfried Glatzeder as police officer * as Klau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritzi Ridgeway
Fredericka Berneice "Fritzi" Ridgeway (April 8, 1898 – March 29, 1961) was an American silent film actress, vaudeville performer, and hotelier. Though she starred in numerous films, she is perhaps best known for her work in silent Western films. A native of Montana, Ridgeway worked as both a vaudeville performer and a professional trick rider before making her film debut in 1916. She appeared in 63 films between 1916 and 1934, with prominent roles in Western films populating much of her early career. Other notable roles include supporting parts in Tod Browning's drama '' The Unpainted Woman'' (1919) and '' The Enemy'' (1927). Ridgeway officially retired from acting in 1934, making her final screen appearance in Rouben Mamoulian's '' We Live Again''. She spent the latter half of her life managing the Hotel del Tahquitz in Palm Springs, California, a hotel she built in 1928. She remained the proprietor of the Hotel del Tahquitz until her death in 1961. She was married to R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritzi Gordon
Fritzi Gordon (1905 or 1916 – 8 February 1992) was an Austrian-born British bridge player, half of the most famous and tempestuous female partnership in the game's history. Following her long-time partner Rixi Markus, she was the second woman to attain the rank of WBF World Grand Master. She won four world titles, eight European championships and numerous other tournaments. Life Gordon was born Frederika Leist in either Graz or Vienna to middle-class Jewish parents. After school, she became the buyer for a Salzburg store, married Paul Gordon and moved to Graz. The annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938 ( Anschluss) disrupted her life, as it did to so many others. She fled to London with her husband, though the details of this abrupt transition are not known. Her brother, Dr. Hans Leist, also came to Britain. (Also a fine bridge player, he was a member of five Gold Cup-winning teams between 1946 and 1953.) When Gordon left Austria, Markus recalled in her obituary tribut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritzi Scheff
Fritzi Scheff (born Friederike Scheff; August 30, 1879 – April 8, 1954) was an American actress and singer. Biography Born Friederike Scheff in Vienna to Dr. Gottfried Scheff and Anna Yeager, she studied at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. She made her debut on January 10, 1897 in Nuremberg. She debuted in Munich at the Royal Opera House. In 1901 she first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, singing rôles in ''La Bohème'', ''Die Meistersinger'', ''Die Walküre'', and ''Don Giovanni''. She sang in the Victor Herbert operetta ''Babette'' at Washington, D.C. and New York (1903). Toward the end of the 1904-05 season, Scheff became ill and was replaced by her understudy Ida Hawley to close out the remaining performances of ''Babette''. Scheff had immense success as Fifi in ''Mlle. Modiste'' (1905–1908, 1913) and appeared also in '' The Prima Donna'' (1908), ''The Mikado'' (1910), '' The Duchess'' (1911), and ''The Love Wager'' (1912). From 1913-18, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritzi Löwy
Friederike "Fritzi" Löwy (18 November 1910 – 13 March 1994) was an Austrian Olympic swimmer. She won a bronze medal in the 400 m freestyle at the 1927 European Aquatics Championships. That same year she set the European record in the 200m freestyle. She competed in freestyle at the 1928 Summer Olympics, but did not reach the finals. Early life Löwy was born in Vienna, Austria. She was the youngest of seven children, and was Jewish. Swimming career In the 1920s Löwy started swimming in the Jewish sports club Hakoah Vienna, which had been founded in 1909 in response to the "Aryan clause" that banned Jews from joining other sports clubs. For several years after 1925 she won the annual Austrian five-mile open-water swimming competition ''Quer durch Wien'' (Across Vienna) on the Danube that drew some 500,000 spectators. During the 1920s–30s she also collected nearly every national title in freestyle. Löwy won a bronze medal in the 400 m freestyle at the 1927 European Aq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritzi Brunette
Fritzi Brunette (born Florence Brunet; May 27, 1890 – September 28, 1943) was an American actress. Early years Fritzi Brunette was born Florence Brunet in Savannah, Georgia, or in Boston although some sources list her birthname as Florence Simone. She was educated in New York City. Career Brunette made her film debut in the 1912 short ''A Waiter of Weight'', followed by ''The Joy Ride'' (1912), and ''His Neighbor's Wife'' (1912). Brunette appeared in films such as ''Unto Those Who Sin'' (1916), in which she played a working girl of squalor, lured by wealth and luxury, ''The Woman Thou Gavest Me'' (1919), '' While Satan Sleeps'' (1922), ''Bells of San Juan'' (1922), and ''Camille of the Barbary Coast'' (1925). In the 1930s and 1940s, Brunette mainly acted in uncredited roles, with her final screen appearance being in ''You're Telling Me'' (1942). Personal life Brunette was the third wife of William Robert Daly, a silent film actor and director. Daly, who died around 1935, di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritzi Burger
Friederike "Fritzi" Burger (6 June 1910 – 16 February 1999) was an Austrian figure skater. She was a two-time Olympic silver medalist (1928, 1932), a four-time World medalist (silver in 1929 and 1932, bronze in 1928 and 1931), the 1930 European champion, and a four-time Austrian national champion (1928–1931). Life and career Burger was born on 6 June 1910 in Vienna. Her family was Jewish. She won the first-ever contested European Championships, held in 1930. Sonja Henie, who held a monopoly in women's figure skating at the time, was not present at this championship and Burger never defeated her in competition. She placed second behind Henie at the 1928 and 1932 Winter Olympics, and in the 1929 and 1932 World Championships. After the 1932 Olympics, Burger ended her skating career and went to London, where in 1935 she married Shinkichi Nishikawa, a grandson of the Japanese pearl tycoon Kōkichi Mikimoto. She returned with her husband to Vienna, where she gave birth to her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritzi Burr
Fritzi Burr (May 31, 1924 – January 17, 2003) was an American character actress that was most notable for her roles as Miss Collins on the sitcom ''What's Happening!!'' and as various comedic foils to Fred Sanford on the sitcom ''Sanford and Son'' in the 1970's. She was the sister-in-law of Sanford and Son producer Saul Turteltaub. Biography Burr was born Freda Berr in Philadelphia on May 31 1924 to Pauline Berr (née Devore) and David Berr. Not only parents were both Russian Jews, but their families came from the same city, Berdichev. Even father's original last name, ''Berdichevsky,'' as it was before it was shortened to ''Berr'', is also derived from the name of their native town. Parents divorced while she was little, and her mother took her to live with her parents, Harry and Rose Devore. A few years later, Mother would remarry and have two more daughters, Shirley and Thelma, by her second husband Benjamin Steinberg. In the late 1930s the family moved from Philadelphia t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritzi Massary
Fritzi Massary (31 March 1882 – 30 January 1969) was an Austrian-American soprano singer and actress. Early life and career Fritzi Massary was born Friederike Massaryk in Vienna in the Austro-Hungarian Empire on 31 March 1882. She was one of the leading operetta singers in Berlin and Vienna. During World War I, she performed for the soldiers of the Imperial German Army in theatres in occupied Belgium.'Das Koniglich Preussische Reserve Infanterie Regiment Nr.15', Major von Forstner (Published 1929), P.272. In 1920, she worked with the composer Oscar Straus, and performed in several of his operas, including ''Der letzte Walzer'' Emigration to England and America Massary was of Jewish familial extraction, and had converted to the Protestant religion in 1903. In late 1932 she departed Germany due to the rising persecution of the Jewish population by the Nazis, shortly before they seized dictatorial power in a paramilitary revolution and declared the Third Reich. Traveling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritzi Fern
Fritzi Fern (born Fritzi Fern Blower, September 19, 1901September 20, 1932) was a motion picture actress from Akron, Ohio. She was the daughter of Hattie R. Blower. Movie actress Fern was raised and educated in Los Angeles, California. She was a child actress with the Morosco Company and made films for the Greyhound Motion Picture Company as a youth. In 1922 she was cast in a series of two-reelers starring Little Napoleon. For a time she was a stage dancer in California and worked in vaudeville. She was rediscovered at the age of nineteen. Fern signed a long-term contract with Universal Pictures in October 1928. Universal scouts noticed her while she was playing a part in ''Clear The Decks'' with Reginald Denny. Fern was cast in ''The Charlatan'' (1929) with Margaret Livingston and Dorothy Gould. Later she performed in episode six of the movie serial western, ''The Last Frontier'' (1932). The twelve chapter screen production featured Lon Chaney Jr. and Dorothy Gulliver. Fritzi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritzi Jane Courtney
Fritzi Jane Courtney (February 15, 1923 – August 7, 2012) was an American actress. The only daughter of Joseph and Rose Jassem, she was born in New York City and was raised in Brooklyn. She graduated from Brooklyn College. While attending drama school, she was employed by a tie company in New York City. She met her future husband, Robert Cohen at a USO during World War II. In 1946, the couple moved to Maine. They were the parents of one daughter, Jill S. Cohen. While working for NBC affiliate, Channel 6, Fritzi became the first woman on-air drama critic in New England, reviewing theatrical productions. She is best known for playing Mrs. Taft, the hotel owner, in three '' Jaws'' films. She played Mrs. Taft in '' Jaws'' (1975), then reprised her role in two sequels – '' Jaws 2'' (1978) and again in '' Jaws: The Revenge'' (1987). On August 7, 2012, Fritzi died at her residence in Portland, Maine. Filmography * ''Route 66 U.S. Route 66 or U.S. Highway 66 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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