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Give Me Life
''Give Me Life'' (German: ''Schenk mir das Leben'') is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by Klaus Fery and starring Grete Reinwald, Henry Stuart and Elizza La Porta.Lamprecht p.195 The film's sets were designed by the art director Willi Herrmann. Cast * Grete Reinwald * Henry Stuart * Elizza La Porta * Jules Massaro * Grit Haid * Jakob Tiedtke * Olga Limburg * Robert Scholz * Gertrud Arnold * Harry Frank * Julietta Brandt * Victor Colani * Hugo Döblin * Maria Forescu * Stefanie Hantzsch * Antonie Jaeckel * Oskar Karlweis * Hilde Maroff * Sylvia Torf * Helen von Münchofen * Sascha von Wanowska * Hedwig Wangel Hedwig Wangel (1875–1961) was a German stage and film actress. Life and career Born as Amalie Pauline Hedwig Simon on September 23, 1875, in Berlin in the German Empire, Hedwig Wangel was the daughter of a music publisher. After studying acting ... * Geza L. Weiss References Bibliography * Gerhard Lamprecht. ''Deutsche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Goetz (German Screenwriter)
Ruth Goetz was a German screenwriter active during the silent era. She was credited on more than 60 films over the course of her career. Selected filmography * '' The Beggar Countess'' (dir. Joe May and Bruno Ziener, 1918) * '' The Platonic Marriage'' (dir. Paul Leni, 1919) * '' Veritas Vincit'' (dir. Joe May, 1919) * ''The Bodega of Los Cuerros'' (dir. Erik Lund, 1919) * '' The Foolish Heart'' (dir. Erik Lund, 1919) * ''The Mistress of the World'' (dir. Joe May, 1919–1920) * '' The Enchanted Princess'' (dir. Erik Lund, 1919) * '' The Fairy of Saint Ménard'' (dir. Erik Lund, 1919) * '' The World Champion'' (dir. Erik Lund, 1919) * '' The Last Sun Son'' (dir. Erik Lund, 1919) * ''The Commandment of Love'' (dir. Erik Lund, 1919) * '' The Eyes of the World'' (dir. Carl Wilhelm, 1920) * '' The Clan'' (dir. Carl Wilhelm, 1920) * ''The Three Aunts'' (dir. Rudolf Biebrach, 1921) * '' The Circle of Death'' (dir. , 1922) * '' The Second Shot'' (dir. Maurice Krol, 1923) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Frank
Harry Frank (15 October 1896 – 12 December 1947) was a German actor. Selected filmography * '' In den Goldfeldern von Nevada'' (1920) * ''Das wandernde Bild'' (1920) * ''The Wandering Image'' (1920) * ''Four Around a Woman'' (1921) * ''The Passion of Inge Krafft'' (1921) * ''Marizza'' (1922) * '' The Girl Without a Homeland'' (1927) * '' Escape from Hell'' (1928) * ''The Case of Prosecutor M'' (1928) * ''Give Me Life'' (1928) * '' Mikosch Comes In'' (1928) * ''Pawns of Passion'' (1928) * '' Almenrausch and Edelweiss'' (1928) * ''High Treason'' (1929) * ''The Great Longing'' (1930) * ''Rag Ball'' (1930) * '' The Tiger Murder Case'' (1930) * '' The Rhineland Girl'' (1930) * ''Madame Bluebeard'' (1931) * '' Kampf um Blond'' (1932) * ''Wehe, wenn er losgelassen'' (1932) * '' Life Begins Tomorrow'' (1933) * ''The Hymn of Leuthen'' (1933) * ''The Girlfriend of a Big Man'' (1934) * ''What Am I Without You'' (1934) * '' Everything for a Woman'' (1935) * ''Black Fighter Johanna'' (1934) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedwig Wangel
Hedwig Wangel (1875–1961) was a German stage and film actress. Life and career Born as Amalie Pauline Hedwig Simon on September 23, 1875, in Berlin in the German Empire, Hedwig Wangel was the daughter of a music publisher. After studying acting with Max Grube, she made her theatrical debut in 1893 in ''Urania''. Following performances for the remainder of the decade in theaters across Germany, during which she was a member of Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater, she then toured England during 1901 and 1902 and the Netherlands during 1902 and 1903, when she retired suddenly, began to provide care for homeless men and women, and assisted the Salvation Army and the Berliner Prisoner Association. Launching her own production company in 1925, she returned to films with the studio UFA the following year. That same year, she also founded the Gate of Hope, an asylum for women who had recently been freed from prison. Ultimately establishing a charitable foundation which bore her name, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Von Münchofen
Helen von Münchofen (often spelt Helen von Muenchhofen) (1904–1956) was a Danish-German film actress. She was born in Copenhagen, but later moved to Germany, where she embarked on a career in films. She played a small part in Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis'' in 1927, but then gained more substantial roles in silent films of the late 1920s. Following the Nazi rise to power in 1933 she returned to Denmark, where she appeared in Pál Fejös's ''The Golden Smile'' (1935). Her daughter, Helen von Münchofen became an actress as well. Her granddaughter Suzanne Doucet, is an actress, musician, singer and composer. Selected filmography * '' Queen of the Boulevards'' (1927) * ''Storm Tide'' (1927) * ''Metropolis'' (1927) * '' The Girl Without a Homeland'' (1927) * '' Give Me Life'' (1928) * '' Lady in the Spa'' (1929) * ''The Golden Smile ''The Golden Smile'' (Danish:''Det gyldne smil'') is a 1935 Danish drama film directed by Pál Fejös and starring Bodil Ipsen, Helen von Münchofen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Torf
Sylvia may refer to: People *Sylvia (given name) *Sylvia (singer), American country music and country pop singer and songwriter *Sylvia Robinson, American singer, record producer, and record label executive * Sylvia Vrethammar, Swedish singer credited as "Sylvia" in Australia and the UK * Tim Sylvia, American mixed martial arts fighter * Colin Sylvia, Australian football player Places * Mount Sylvia, a former name of Xueshan on Taiwan Island *Mount Sylvia, Queensland, Australia * Sylvia, Kansas, a town in Kansas, United States * Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem, New York City, New York, United States Art, entertainment, and media Comics * ''Sylvia'' (comic strip), a long-running comic strip by cartoonist Nicole Hollander Films * ''Sylvia'' (1961 film), an Australian television play * ''Sylvia'' (1965 film), an American drama film * ''Sylvia'' (1985 film), a New Zealand film about New Zealand educator Sylvia Ashton-Warner, * ''Sylvia'' (2003 film), a British biographical drama film a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilde Maroff
Hilde Maroff (5 June 1904 – 15 August 1984) was a German stage and film actress. She was the mother of the child actor Peter Bosse. Selected filmography * ''Kubinke the Barber'' (1926) * ''Love's Joys and Woes'' (1926) * ''Sister Veronika'' (1927) * '' Men Before Marriage'' (1927) * ''Marie's Soldier'' (1927) * ''The Awakening of Woman'' (1927) * '' Tough Guys, Easy Girls'' (1927) * ''Miss Chauffeur'' (1927) * ''The Cavalier from Wedding'' (1927) * '' The Pirates of the Baltic Sea'' (1927) * ''Flirtation'' (1927) * '' The Three Women of Urban Hell'' (1928) * ''Sir or Madam'' (1928) * '' Fair Game'' (1928) * ''Cry for Help'' (1928) * '' He Goes Right, She Goes Left!'' (1928) * ''Give Me Life'' (1928) * '' A Mother's Love'' (1929) * '' Street Acquaintances'' (1929) * '' The Happy Vagabonds'' (1929) * ''Three from the Unemployment Office'' (1932) * ''What Women Dream'' (1933) * ''An Ideal Husband'' (1935) * ''Mother Song ''Mother Song'' (German: ''Mutterlied'') is a 1937 German-I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oskar Karlweis
Oskar Leopold Karlweis (often credited Oscar Karlweis; 10 July 1894 – 24 January 1956) was an Austrian-American stage and film actor, active internationally. Career Born in Hinterbrühl, Austria-Hungary, he was the son of playwright Carl Karlweis and younger brother of the writer . Karlweis abandoned his youthful law studies for the stage, first for eight years at Vienna's Stadttheater. After service in World War I, he was active with Max Reinhardt's Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, followed by engagements at various theaters in Munich and Vienna, and then to the Berlin stage where he had a popular following playing singing and dancing roles, including as Prinz Orlofsky in ''Die Fledermaus''. His general manner was humorous, charming, naive, and cheerful. In Berlin between 1930 and 1933 he worked as a recording artist and acted in more than a dozen German light comedy and musical films, most famously as one of Lilian Harvey's suitors in the hugely successful operetta fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonie Jaeckel
Antonie Jaeckel (5 September 1876 – 26 December 1960) was a German actress. Selected filmography * ''Madeleine (1919 film), Madeleine'' (1919) * ''Fridericus Rex'' (1922) * ''The Unknown Tomorrow'' (1923) * ''Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * ''If Only It Weren't Love'' (1925) * ''Love's Joys and Woes'' (1926) * ''That Was Heidelberg on Summer Nights'' (1927) * ''Queen Louise (1927 film), Queen Louise'' (1927–28) * ''Lord of the Night'' (1927) * ''Potsdam (film), Potsdam'' (1927) * ''Regine (1927 film), Regine'' (1927) * ''The Harbour Baron'' (1928) * ''Give Me Life'' (1928) * ''Strauss Is Playing Today'' (1928) * '' Painted Youth'' (1929) * ''Fräulein Else (1929 film), Fräulein Else'' (1929) * ''We Stick Together Through Thick and Thin'' (1929) * ''Delicatessen (1930 film), Delicatessen'' (1930) * ''The Squeaker (1931 film), The Squeaker'' (1931) * ''Three from the Unemployment Office'' (1932) * ''The Mad Bomberg (1932 film), The Mad Bomberg'' (1932) * ''Little Dorrit (1934 film), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefanie Hantzsch
Stephanie is a female name that comes from the Greek name Στέφανος (Stephanos) meaning "crown". The male form is Stephen. Forms of Stephanie in other languages include the German "Stefanie", the Italian, Czech, Polish, and Russian "Stefania", the Portuguese ''Estefânia'' (although the use of that version has become rare, and both the English and French versions are the ones commonly used), and the Spanish ''Estefanía''. The form Stéphanie is from the French language, but Stephanie is now widely used both in English- and Spanish-speaking cultures. Given names Royalty *Stephanie, Queen of Navarre (died after 1066), Queen consort of king García Sánchez III of Navarre *Stephanie of Castile (died 1 July 1180), illegitimate daughter of Alfonso VII of León and Castile * Stephanie of Milly, Lady of Oultrejordain (died 1197), an influential figure in the Kingdom of Jerusalem * Stephanie of Milly, Lady of Gibelet, an influential figure in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, first cous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Forescu
Maria Forescu (15 January 1875 28 October 1947) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian opera singer and film actress. During the silent and talkies era of the German cinema, she appeared in several movies as a supporting actress. When Adolf Hitler came to power, Forescu, like other Jews of that period, was barred from her profession. Living undercover during the later years of World War II, she survived the Holocaust and died in 1947 in East Berlin. Biography Forescu was born Maria Füllenbaum on 15 January 1875, in Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary. She attended a boarding school in Paris. She studied singing, music and drama at the Prague Conservatory. Around the turn of the century, she debuted as an operetta singer and soon became a well known member of the renowned Viennese Carl Theater. She also performed in several of the tours organized by the theater throughout Europe. Then she went to Berlin, where she appeared at the theater of the West, at the Operetta Theater, and the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |