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Joyless Street
''Joyless Street'' (german: Die freudlose Gasse), also titled ''The Street of Sorrow'' or ''The Joyless Street'', is a 1925 German silent film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst starring Greta Garbo and Asta Nielsen. It is based on a novel by Hugo Bettauer and widely considered an expression of New Objectivity in film. Plot In an alley called Melchiorgasse in a poor quarter of 1921 Vienna, Austria, the lives of several people coincide. Marie, daughter of an abusive war veteran father, hopes to escape her home with the help of her boyfriend Egon, a bank clerk. Grete is the elder daughter of impoverished civil servant Rumfort. Marie and Grete join the overnight line of waiting customers outside of the butcher's shop run by the abusive Josef Geiringer, but Grete passes out and loses her place. Marie and her friend Else manage to enter Geiringer's shop, where they receive a piece of meat in exchange for Else's sexual services. Else offers Marie to share the meat with her, but Marie dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of title cards. The term "silent film" is something of a misnomer, as these films were almost always accompanied by live sounds. During the silent era that existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a pianist, theater organist—or even, in large cities, a small orchestra—would often play music to accompany the films. Pianists and organists would play either from sheet music, or improvisation. Sometimes a person would even narrate the inter-title cards for the audience. Though at the time the technology to synchronize sound with the film did not exist, music was seen as an essential part of the viewing experience. "Silent film" is typically used as a historical term to describe an era of cinema pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross (ARC), also known as the American National Red Cross, is a non-profit humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster preparedness education in the United States. It is the designated US affiliate of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the United States movement to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The organization offers services and development programs. History and organization Founders Clara Barton established the American Red Cross in Dansville, New York on May 21, 1881, and was the organization's first president. She organized a meeting on May 12 of that year at the house of Senator Omar D. Conger ( R, MI). Fifteen people were present at the meeting, including Barton, Conger and Representative William Lawrence ( R, OH) (who became the first vice president). The first local chapter was established in 1881 at the English Evangelical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lya Mara
Lya Mara (born Aleksandra Gudowicz; 1 August 1897 – 1 March 1960) was a Polish actress. She was one of the biggest stars of the German silent cinema. Biography Lya Mara was born Aleksandra Gudowicz in a Polish family in Riga, Governorate of Livonia. As a young girl she wanted to become a chemist, as then famous Maria Skłodowska-Curie. Just before World War I, in 1913 Lya Mara moved with her family to Warsaw, as Poland and Latvia were part of the Russian Empire. There, she began her career as a dancer. In Warsaw, Lya Mara played her first small part in a short fiction silent film under a characteristically simplified title ''We want husband'' (1916, as Mia Mara) and soon after in another film ''Bestia'' (''The Beast'', premiere on 5 January 1917) directed by a Polish director of older generation Alexander Hertz. Another Polish actress, Pola Negri, who later made an extraordinary career in Germany and in America, was the star of this film. Soon after that film, Negri left for ... [...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] |
Renate Brausewetter
Renate Brausewetter (1 October 1905 – 20 August 2006) was a Spain, Spanish-born Germany, German silent film actress. She was the younger sister of German actor Hans Brausewetter. Brausewetter was born in Málaga, Spain, moving to Berlin, Germany in 1915. She made her screen debut in 1925's ''Die freudlose Gasse'' (''The Joyless Street''), appearing alongside Greta Garbo. Brausewetter appeared in over a dozen silent films, but retired from acting in 1928 before the advent of sound. She appeared in only one sound picture, 1950's ''The Staircase (1950 film), The Staircase''. Brausewetter was living in a retirement home in Linz am Rhein when she died of natural causes on 20 August 2006, aged 100. Selected filmography * ''The Hanseatics'' (1925) * ''Den of Iniquity'' (1925) * ''People to Each Other'' (1926) * ''Tough Guys, Easy Girls'' (1927) * ''The Lorelei'' (1927) * ''The Old Fritz'' (1928) * ''The Staircase (1950 film), The Staircase'' (1950) External links * Obituary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregori Chmara
Gregori Mikhailovich Chmara (Ukrainian: Григорій Михайлович Хмара, Russian: Григорий Михайлович Хмара; 29 July 1878 – 3 February 1970) was a Ukrainian-born stage and film actor whose career spanned six decades. Biography Born in Poltava, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), Chmara began his career in 1910 at the Moscow Art Theater. He made several films in Russia and following the Russian Revolution he went to Germany where he performed as a singer. After meeting the Danish actress Asta Nielsen, the two fell in love and lived together, but never married. In the 1930, he began appearing in Polish and French films, as well as German films. His last film role was in the Stellio Lorenzi-directed French television film adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky novel ''Crime and Punishment'' (''Crime et châtiment''), filmed in 1970 and released in 1971. Chmara died in France in 1970. Selected filmography * '' Raskolnikow'' (1923) * '' I.N.R.I. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Reinwald
Otto Reinwald (23 August 1899 – 1 July 1968) was a German film actor.Eisner p.350 The elder brother of the actresses Grete Reinwald and Hanni Reinwald, he made his screen debut in 1913 as a child actor. He later became a production manager, active in the post-war German film industry. He was also credited as a cinematographer for the 1959 film '' Hunting Party''. Selected filmography Actor * '' The Mysterious X'' (1914) * '' The Silent Mill'' (1914) * ''Rosenmontag'' (1924) * '' Nanon'' (1924) * ''Father Voss'' (1925) * ''The Old Ballroom'' (1925) * '' The Circus Princess'' (1925) * ''Anne-Liese of Dessau'' (1925) * '' Joyless Street'' (1925) * '' Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days'' (1925) * ''The Iron Bride'' (1925) * '' Two Under the Stars'' (1927) * '' Today I Was With Frieda'' (1928) * '' Autumn on the Rhine'' (1928) * '' Misled Youth'' (1929) * '' There Was Once a Loyal Hussar'' (1929) * '' The Youths'' (1929) * ''Only on the Rhine'' (1930) * ''Marriage in Name Only'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hertha Von Walther
Hertha von Walther (born Hertha Stern und Walter von Monbary, 12 June 1903 – 12 April 1987) was a German film actress. She appeared in 80 films between 1921 and 1983. Biography Hertha von Walther was born Hertha Stern und Walther von Monbary on 12 June 1903 to Clara Stern und Walther von Monbary (née Gabain) and the Prussian general Arthur Stern und Walther von Monbary (1853–1917). Her father had been born Arthur Stern-Gwiazdowski in Poland to a mother of French descent and was the adopted son of Rudolf Walther von Monbary. At 17 years old, von Walther left the boarding school she had been attending in Wolfenbüttel and went to the Leipzig acting school with a scholarship. Her first stage experience came at the Leipzig Opera, where she played as an extra. She later moved to Berlin and found work at the Theater am Zoo and the Renaissance Theater. von Walther made her film debut in ''Destinée'' (1920), followed by Julot the Apache (1921), and Duke Ferrante's End ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeska Gert
Valeska or Valeška may refer to the following people: Given name * Valeska von Gallwitz (1833–1888), German writer *Valeska Gert (1892–c. 1978), German dancer and cabaret artist *Valeska Menezes (born 1976), Brazilian volleyball player * Valeska Röver (1849–1931), German painter *Valeska Saab (born 1984), Ecuadorian politician, charity worker, model and beauty pageant titleholder * Valeska Sandoval, Nicaraguan student * Valeska Steiner (born 1986), Swiss singer and member of the duo Boy *Valeska Stock (1887–1966), German actress *Valeska Suratt (1882–1962), American stage and silent film actress * Sina-Valeska Jung (born 1979), German actress Surname * Adolfas Valeška (1905–1994), Lithuanian stained glass artist, painter and stage designer * Lette Valeska (1885–1985), American photographer, painter and sculptor Fictional characters * Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska, recurring characters in '' Gotham'' See also * 610 Valeska, a main-belt asteroid * Saved by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Einar Hanson
Einar Hanson (; Stockholm, Sweden – ; Santa Monica, California), also known as Einar Hansen, was a Swedish silent film actor. Career Discovered at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre by director Mauritz Stiller, handsome and sophisticated, he was in 1927 ideally positioned to take over from the late Rudolph Valentino as Hollywood's "great screen lover". Upon his arrival in Hollywood in 1925, along with Stiller and the director's other protégée Greta Garbo, Hanson starred opposite some of the era's leading ladies, including Pola Negri and Corinne Griffith. Hanson was destined for even bigger and better things at Paramount Pictures, who had bought his original five-year contract from Universal Studios. He showed great progress opposite Clara Bow and Esther Ralston in '' Children of Divorce'', as well as ''The Woman on Trial'' and ''Barbed Wire'' both with Pola Negri, and ''Fashions for Women'' (all 1927), directed by Dorothy Arzner. Death On June 3, 1927, Hanson was on his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Garrison (actor)
Robert Garrison (born Ruben Gerson; 18 July 1872 – died 5 January 1930) was a German-JewishSiegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 film actor. Robert Garrison was born in Strasburg in Westpreußen and died in Berlin. Selected filmography * ''People in Ecstasy'' (1921) * ''The Ancient Law'' (1923) * ''Quarantäne'' (1923) * ''Debit and Credit'' (1924) * ''Michael'' (1924) * '' Dudu, a Human Destiny'' (1924) * ''Father Voss'' (1925) * ''If You Have an Aunt'' (1925) * ''Slums of Berlin'' (1925) * ''Shadows of the Metropolis'' (1925) * ''Joyless Street'' (1925) * '' The Company Worth Millions'' (1925) * ''The Circus Princess'' (1925) * ''The Humble Man and the Chanteuse'' (1925) * '' Peter the Pirate'' (1925) * ''An Artist of Life'' (1925) * '' The Man Who Sold Himself'' (1925) * ''The Woman with That Certain Something'' (1925) * ''Nick, King of the Chauffeurs'' (1925) * ''Women of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Stuart (actor)
Henry Stuart (1 February 1885 – 26 January 1948) was a Swiss film actor known for his work in Germany. Stuart was born in Cairo as son of a Swiss doctor, but educated in Britain. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, intending to become a painter. After moving into the German film industry following the First World War, Stuart played a number of prominent supporting roles in productions such as '' Joyless Street'' (1925).Isenberg p.142 Stuart's film career largely ended with the arrival of sound, and he worked increasingly on the stage. His final film appearance was a small role in the Nazi agfacolor epic '' Münchhausen'' (1943). Filmography * '' A Glass of Water'' (1923) * '' Joyless Street'' (1925) * '' The Wig'' (1925) * ''The Adventures of Sybil Brent'' (1925) * ''Wrath of the Seas'' (1926) * '' The Man in the Fire '' (1926) * ''Two and a Lady'' (1926) * '' The Street of Forgetting'' (1926) * ''Derby'' (1926) * '' Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit'' (1927) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
