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Girls In White
''Girls in White'' (german: Mädchen in Weiß) is a 1936 German musical comedy film directed by Victor Janson and starring Maria Cebotari, Iván Petrovich and Hilde von Stolz. It was shot at the Terra Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Set in pre-revolutionary Russia at the Smolny Institute, the film tells the story of the young student Daniela, who wants to follow in her mother's footsteps and become an opera singer. The film's most famous song is "I am Here to be Happy" ("Ich bin auf der Welt glücklich zu sein"). Cast * Maria Cebotari as Daniela * Iván Petrovich as Count Feodor Ivanowitsch Schuwalow * Hilde von Stolz as Natalia (a dancer) * Georg Alexander as Grand Duke Sergej Andrejewitsch * Ernst Dumcke as Opera Director * Hans Junkermann as General Goremkin (Daniela's uncle) * Ilse Fürstenberg as Irina (General Goremkin's wife) * Herta Worell as Vera (schoolgirl) * Trude Haefelin as Olga (schoolgirl) * Rosette Zobber as Marina (schoolgirl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Janson
Victor Arthur Eduard Janson ( lv, Viktors Artūrs Eduards Jansons; 25 September 1884 – 29 June 1960) was a German stage and film actor and film director of Latvians, Latvian ethnicity. Selected filmography Actor * ''Your Dearest Enemy'' (1916) * ''When Four Do the Same'' (1917) * ''Carmen (1918 film), Carmen'' (1918) * ''The Ballet Girl'' (1918) * ''The Seeds of Life (film), The Seeds of Life'' (1918) * ''Ferdinand Lassalle (film), Ferdinand Lassalle'' (1918) * ''Der Gelbe Schein, The Yellow Ticket'' (1918) * ''My Wife, the Movie Star'' (1919) * ''The Dagger of Malaya'' (1919) * ''One or the Other (film), One or the Other'' (1919) * ''Superstition (1919 film), Superstition'' (1919) * ''The Teahouse of the Ten Lotus Flowers'' (1919) * ''Countess Doddy'' (1919) * ''The Howling Wolf'' (1919) * ''The Merry Husband'' (1919) * ''The Panther Bride'' (1919) * ''The Oyster Princess'' (1919) * ''The Woman at the Crossroads (1919 film), The Woman at the Crossroads'' (1919) * ''The Housing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Junkermann (actor)
Hans Ferdinand Junkermann (24 February 1872 – 12 June 1943) was a German actor. He was married to the Austrian actress Julia Serda. Selected filmography * ''Where Is Coletti?'' (1913) * ''The Seeds of Life'' (1918) * ''The Girl from Acker Street'' (1920) * ''The Love Affairs of Hector Dalmore'' (1921) * ''Hamlet'' (1921) * ''Hazard'' (1921) * '' The Eternal Struggle'' (1921) * '' Playing with Fire'' (1921) * ''Lola Montez, the King's Dancer'' (1922) * ''Miss Rockefeller Is Filming'' (1922) * ''Maciste and the Silver King's Daughter'' (1922) * ''The Girl with the Mask'' (1922) * ''The Flight into Marriage'' (1922) * '' The Lady and Her Hairdresser'' (1922) * '' The Woman on the Panther'' (1923) * ''Das Milliardensouper'' (1923) * '' Nanon'' (1924) * ''The Stolen Professor'' (1924) * ''Darling of the King'' (1924) * '' The Great Unknown'' (1924) *'' Dancing Mad'' (1925) * ''The Girl with a Patron'' (1925) * ''Express Train of Love'' (1925) * ''The Salesgirl from the Fashion Stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1936 Musical Comedy Films
Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII. * January 28 – Britain's King George V state funeral takes place in London and Windsor. He is buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle * February 4 – Radium E (bismuth-210) becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. * February 6 – The IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. * February 10– 19 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Amba Aradam – Italian forces gain a decisive tactical victory, effectively neutralizing the army of the Ethiopian Empire. * February 16 – 1936 Spanish general election: The left-wing Popular Front coalition takes a majority. * February 26 – February 26 Incident (二・二六事件, ''Niniroku Jiken''): Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1936 Films
The following is an overview of 1936 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1936 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *January 9 – Silent screen actor John Gilbert, perhaps best known for his appearances in films such as ''The Merry Widow'' and ''The Big Parade'', dies suddenly of a heart attack at his Bel Air home, aged 38. *February 15 – first Republic serial, ''Darkest Africa'', is released. *May 29 – Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film, '' Fury'', starring Spencer Tracy and Bruce Cabot, is released. *September 14 – Film producer Irving Thalberg, often referred by many as the "Boy Wonder of Hollywood", dies from pneumonia at his home in Santa Monica, aged 37. Academy Awards * Best Picture: ''The Great Ziegfeld'' – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer * Best Director: Frank Capra – ''Mr. Deeds Goes to Town'' * Best Actor: Paul Muni – ''The St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mädchen In Uniform
' ("Girls in Uniform") is a 1931 German romantic drama film based on the play ' (''Yesterday and Today'') by Christa Winsloe and directed by Leontine Sagan with artistic direction from Carl Froelich, who also funded the film. Winsloe also wrote the screenplay and was on the set during filming. The film remains an international cult classic. Plot Manuela von Meinhardis, whose mother had died when she was young and whose father serves in the military, is enrolled at an all-girls boarding school headed by the traditional and iron-fisted Fräulein von Nordeck zur Nidden. Manuela feels out of place in this strict environment. After witnessing Fräulein von Bernburg's compassion for the other girls, Manuela develops a passionate love for her teacher. The first spark of love begins with a goodnight kiss. Manuela receives this goodnight kiss on her first night at the school and, while the teacher normally gives all the girls a goodnight kiss on the forehead, Fräulein von Bernburg ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rigoletto
''Rigoletto'' is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play ''Le roi s'amuse'' by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian theatres at the time, the opera had a triumphant premiere at La Fenice in Venice on 11 March 1851. The work, Verdi's sixteenth in the genre, is widely considered to be the first of the operatic masterpieces of Verdi's middle-to-late career. Its tragic story revolves around the licentious Duchy of Mantua, Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, ''La maledizione'' (The Curse), refers to a curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter the Duke has seduced with Rigoletto's encouragement. The curse comes to fruition when Gilda falls in love with the Duke and sacrifices her life to save him from the assassin hired by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blandine Ebinger
Blandine Ebinger (born Blandine Loeser) (4 November 1899, in Berlin – 25 December 1993, in Berlin) was a German actress and ''chansonniere''. Career Ebinger became acquainted with Friedrich Hollaender in 1919, and with him she became heavily invested as a performer, writer, and composer in the Berlin cabaret scene in the 1920s, beginning in the cabaret and the Café des Westens. She recorded many of her husband's, Friedrich Hollaender, cabaret songs, including the set of songs entitled '. Ebinger emigrated to the United States in 1937, returning to Berlin in 1947. She moved to Munich, where she met her second husband, the publisher Helwig Hassepflug, in 1961. They eventually settled back in Berlin, where she continued her career in the theater and as an actress on television productions. Family Ebinger was the daughter of the pianist Gustav Loeser and the actress Margarete Wezel. She married Friedrich Hollaender. Although Ebinger and Hollaender ended their marriage bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarete Schön
Margarete Schön (born Margarethe Schippang; 7 April 1895 – 26 December 1985) was a German stage and film actress whose career spanned nearly fifty years. She is internationally recognized for her role as Kriemhild in director Fritz Lang's ''Die Nibelungen'' series of two silent fantasy films, ''Die Nibelungen: Siegfried'' and ''Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge''. Stage career Born in Magdeburg, Germany as Margarethe Schippang, she received private acting lessons with the theatre actor Hans Calm in Dessau. In 1912 she made her stage debut in Bad Freienwalde. Shortly thereafter, she received a commitment at the municipal theater of Bromberg (now, Bydgoszcz, in present-day Poland). From 1915 to 1918 she was part of the ensemble cast of the Deutsches Theater in Hanover, and from 1918 to 1945 she performed at the Staatstheater Berlin. Film career In 1919, Margarete Schön made her film debut in the Carl Wilhelm-directed ''Du meine Himmelskönigin''. She would spend the next two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norberto Ardelli
Norberto may refer to: *Norberto Alonso (born 1953), former Argentine football midfielder *Norberto Araujo (born 1978), Argentine football central defender *Norberto Aroldi (1932–1978), Argentine film actor and screenwriter *Norberto Barba (born 1963), American cinematographer and film director *Norberto Bobbio (1909–2004), Italian philosopher of law and political sciences and a historian of political thought *Norberto Bocchi (born 1961), Italian bridge player *Norberto Bravo (born 1970), professional boxer *Norberto Ceresole (1943–2003), Argentine sociologist and political scientist *Norberto Collado Abreu (1921–2008), the Cuban captain of the yacht which ferried Fidel Castro and 81 supporters to Cuba from Mexico in 1956 *Norberto Costa Alegre (born 1951), former prime minister of São Tomé and Príncipe *Norberto Doroteo Méndez (1923–1998), former Argentine football striker *Norberto Esbrez (born 1966), Argentinian tango dancer, choreographer, and teacher *Norberto Font ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Wenck
Eduard Model Accessories is a Czech manufacturer of plastic models and finescale model accessories. Formed in 1989 in the city of Most, Eduard began in a rented cellar as a manufacturer of photoetched brass model components. Following the success of their early products, the company branched off into plastic models in 1993. As of 2006, Eduard's product line contained some 30 plastic kits and more than 800 individual photoetch detail sets. To the plastic modeller community at large, Eduard has become a household word in the field of photoetched parts, and their products are available worldwide. Eduard aircraft kits range from World War I to the present day. Some notable ones include: most of the famous World War I fighters are: Fokker D.VII, Pfalz D.III, Albatros D.III and the Sopwith Pup, while World War II had the: Yakovlev Yak-3, Hawker Hurricane, Spitfire and the Messerschmitt Bf 109 The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is a German World War II fighter aircraft that was, along wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosette Zobber
Rosette is the French diminutive of ''rose''. It may refer to: Flower shaped designs * Rosette (award), a mark awarded by an organisation * Rosette (design), a small flower design *hence, various flower-shaped or rotational symmetric forms: ** Rosette (decoration), a small circular device that can be awarded with medal ** Rosette (politics), worn by political candidates in an election ** Rosette, a type of chain stitch in sewing ** Rose window, a Gothic circular architectonic component cut most frequently in shape similar to a rose ** Rosette (botany), a circular arrangement of leaves ** Rosette (zoology), markings like those of a jaguar ** a structure near the beak of some birds ** Pliska rosette, an ancient bronze artifact found in Pliska, Bulgaria in 1961 ** Rosette sampler, a circular arrangement of Nansen bottles ** a trophy attached on the head of a bull in the French ''course camarguaise'' bullfighting event ** Klemperer rosette, a term used in interstellar cosmology and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
