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Fräulein Else (1929 Film)
''Fräulein Else'' (English: ''Miss Else'') is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Paul Czinner and starring Elisabeth Bergner, Albert Bassermann and Albert Steinrück. It was based on the 1924 novella of the same name by Arthur Schnitzler. Bergner had previously played her role on stage to great acclaim. However, it was felt that the film was hindered by being silent given the strength of the story's dialogue.Prawer p.186 Partial cast * Elisabeth Bergner as Else Thalhof * Albert Bassermann as Dr. Alfred Thalhof * Albert Steinrück as Von Dorsday * Adele Sandrock as Tante Emma * Else Heller as Dr. Thalhofs Frau * Jack Trevor as Paul, Tante Emma's Sohn * Grit Hegesa as Cissy Mohr * Irmgard Bern * Antonie Jaeckel * Gertrude De Lalsky * Paul Morgan * Jaro Fürth * Carl Goetz * Alexander Murski * Ellen Plessow * Toni Tetzlaff Toni Tetzlaff (born Elisabeth Antonie Pauline Tetzlaff; 13 March 1871 – 16 December 1947) was a German stage an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Czinner
Paul Czinner (30 May 1890 – 22 June 1972) was a Hungarian-born British writer, film director, and producer. Biography Czinner was born to a Jewish family in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. After studying literature and philosophy at the University of Vienna, he worked as a journalist. From 1919 onward, he dedicated himself to work for the film industry as writer, director and producer. Czinner became engaged to actress Gilda Langer in early 1920. Shortly after their engagement Langer succumbed to the Spanish flu and died on 31 January 1920. In 1924, he offered the leading role in his film ''Nju'' to Elisabeth Bergner. They became partners. Due to the persecution of Jews by the Nazi Party under Adolf Hitler, the two, both Jewish, fled to Vienna and then London, where they were married. Despite Czinner's homosexuality, the union proved a happy and personally and professionally enriching one for both partners. 1934 saw the realisation of his film ''Catherine the Great'', with his wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Trevor
Anthony Cedric Sebastian Steane (14 December 1893 – 19 December 1976), known by the stage name Jack Trevor, was a British film actor of the silent and early sound era. Based in Weimar (and later Nazi) Germany, he acted in 67 films between 1922 and 1943. He was later convicted by the Central Criminal Court of collaboration for appearing in multiple propaganda films of the Nazi regime, but his sentence was overturned on the basis that he'd only worked under duress. Early life and military service Trevor was born Anthony Cedric Sebastian Steane in London in 1893, to upper-class parents. He studied at New College, Oxford, and was drafted into the British Army, where he was posted to the Manchester Regiment. By 1915, he was posted to Gallipoli and later France as an acting Second Lieutenant. He was wounded in action in 1916, and was for a time invalidated out of service. In June 1917, while under orders to return to France after sick leave, he absented himself; and in Decem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Silent Feature Films
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German Drama Films
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1929 Films
The following is an overview of 1929 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1929 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events The days of the silent film are numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound is on. * February 1 – ''The Broadway Melody'' is released by MGM and becomes the first major musical film of the sound era, sparking a host of imitators as well as a series of ''Broadway Melody'' films that will run until 1940. * February 18 – The first Academy Awards, or Oscars, are announced for the year ended August 1, 1928. * March 3 – William Fox announces that he has taken control of Loews Inc., including its subsidiary Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, buying shares from Marcus Loew's widow and sons and Nicholas Schenck for $50 million. The acquisition eventually falls through. * May 16 – The first Academy Awards are distributed at The Hollyw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Tetzlaff
Toni Tetzlaff (born Elisabeth Antonie Pauline Tetzlaff; 13 March 1871 – 16 December 1947) was a German stage and film actress.Chander p. 272 Selected filmography * ''Alkohol'' (1919) * '' Lilli'' (1919) * ''Lilli's Marriage'' (1919) * '' The World Champion'' (1919) * ''Devoted Artists'' (1919) * ''Princess Woronzoff'' (1920) * ''In the Whirl of Life'' (1920) * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * ''Waves of Life and Love'' (1921) * ''Lola Montez, the King's Dancer'' (1922) * '' Louise de Lavallière'' (1922) * ''Should We Get Married?'' (1925) * ''Reluctant Imposter'' (1925) * '' The Ascent of Little Lilian'' (1925) * ''The Three Mannequins'' (1926) * ''Lace'' (1926) * ''Countess Ironing-Maid'' (1926) * ''His Greatest Bluff'' (1927) * ''Heads Up, Charley'' (1927) * ''Love in the Cowshed'' (1928) * ''Panic'' (1928) * ''Immorality'' (1928) * ''When the Mother and the Daughter'' (1928) * ''From a Bachelor's Diary'' (1929) * ''The Woman Everyone Loves Is You'' (1929) * ''Sinf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Plessow
Ellen Plessow (born as Helene Wiemuth Penning on 12 January 1891, in Oldenburg – 2 September 1967, in West Berlin) was a German actress. Plessow attended the conservatory in Hanover and played in Berlin theatres. Starting in the 1920s she played often amusing roles in silent films. Filmography * '' The Girl from the Rhine'' (1922) * '''' (1922) * '''' (1922) ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Murski
Alexander Alexandrovich Murski (Russian: Александр Александрович Мурский) (1 November 1869 – April 1943) was a Saint Petersburg, Russian-born German actor. Murski died in 1943 in Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, France. He was occasionally credited with the names Alexander Mursky and Aleksandr Murskij. Selected filmography * '' Zaida, the Tragedy of a Model'' (1923) * ''Michael'' (1924) * '' Comedy of the Heart'' (1924) * '' Two Children'' (1924) * ''The Blackguard'' (1925) * '' The Adventure of Mr. Philip Collins'' (1925) * '' The Telephone Operator'' (1925) * ''The Island of Dreams'' (1925) * '' The Found Bride'' (1925) * '' Love is Blind'' (1926) * '' State Attorney Jordan'' (1926) * '' The Son of Hannibal'' (1926) * ''His Toughest Case'' (1926) * ''Mata Hari'' (1927) * '' A Murderous Girl'' (1927) * '' The Queen of Spades'' (1927) * '' Homesick'' (1927) * '' The False Prince'' (1927) * ''The Famous Woman'' (1927) * ''Linden Lady on the Rhine'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Goetz
Carl Goetz (10 April 1862 – 15 August 1932) was an Austrian stage and film actor. He appeared in around seventy films during the silent and early sound eras. Goetz was of a Jewish background.Prawer p.213 He is particularly noted for his role in Georg Wilhelm Pabst's ''Pandora's Box'' (1929). Selected filmography * '' Bogdan Stimoff'' (1916) * ''Tom Sawyer'' (1917) * '' The Count of Cagliostro'' (1920) * '' The Fool and Death'' (1920) * '' Dracula's Death'' (1921) * ''The Favourite of the Queen'' (1922) * ''La Boheme'' (1923) * '' The Expulsion'' (1923) * '' The Mill at Sanssouci'' (1926) * '' The Bank Crash of Unter den Linden'' (1926) * ''Pratermizzi'' (1927) * '' Princess Olala'' (1928) * '' Scampolo'' (1928) * '' My Heart is a Jazz Band'' (1929) * ''Pandora's Box'' (1929) * '' Fräulein Else'' (1929) * ''The Singing City'' (1930) * ''The Flute Concert of Sanssouci'' (1930) * ''Danton'' (1931) * ''Yorck'' (1931) * '' The Paw'' (1931) * ''1914'' (1931) * '' Shadows of the Under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaro Fürth
Jaro Fürth (born Edwin Fürth-Jaro; 21 April 1871 – 12 November 1945) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Early life Fürth was born to Jewish parents in Prague.Profile Cyranos.ch; accessed 16 March 2015. Initially he studied law, but began his acting career under the tutelage of Alexander Römpler before taking stage engagements in Scandinavia, performing in roles created by . In 1905 he travelled to Vienna, where he received an engagement at the Deutschen Volkstheater. Film career In the late 1910s he went to Berlin and began appearing in silent films. Under the direction of[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Morgan (actor)
Paul Morgan (October 1, 1886 – December 10, 1938) was a Jewish Austrian actor and Kabarett performer. He died in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1938. Selected filmography * '' The Gentleman Without a Residence'' (1915) * ''The Mistress of the World, Part VI'' (1919) * ''Countess Doddy'' (1919) * '' Prostitution'' (1919) * '' Around the World in Eighty Days'' (1919) * ''Diamonds'' (1920) * '' Respectable Women'' (1920) * ''Kurfürstendamm'' (1920) * '' Four Around a Woman'' (1921) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1921) * ''Hedda Gabler'' (1925) * ''The Girl with a Patron'' (1925) * '' The Elegant Bunch'' (1925) * ''Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * '' Love and Trumpets'' (1925) * '' The Flower Girl of Potsdam Square'' (1925) * ''The Red Mouse'' (1926) * ''Vienna - Berlin'' (1926) * ''When She Starts, Look Out'' (1926) * ''The Third Squadron'' (1926) * '' Circus Romanelli'' (1926) * '' The Bank Crash of Unter den Linden'' (1926) * ''The Pride of the Company'' (1926) * '' The Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrude De Lalsky
Gertrude or Gertrud may refer to: Places In space *Gertrude (crater), a crater on Uranus's moon Titania *710 Gertrud, a minor planet Terrestrial placenames * Gertrude, Arkansas *Gertrude, Washington * Gertrude, West Virginia People *Gertrude (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) People with Gertrude as the full name: *Blessed Gertrude of Aldenberg (1227–1297), daughter of Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia and abbess near Trier *Gertrude of Austria (1226–1288), Duchess of Austria and Styria * Gertrude of Babenberg (c.1118–1150), Duchess of Bohemia *Gertrude of Baden (c.1160–1225), Margravine of Baden *Gertrude of Bavaria (died 1197), daughter of Henry the Lion, Queen consort of Denmark *Gertrude of Brunswick (c.1060–1117), Margravine of Frisia and Meissen *Gertrude of Comburg (died 1130), Queen consort of Germany *Gertrude of Dagsburg (died 1225), Duchess of Lorraine *Gertrude of Delft (died 1358), Dutch Beguine and mystic *Gertrude of Flanders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
