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Konrad Tom
Konrad Tom (9 April 1887 – 9 August 1957), born Konrad Runowiecki, a Polish Jewish actor, writer, singer and director, born in Warsaw. Wrote song lyrics in Polish and in Yiddish for stage, film and cabaret, including '' szmonces''. His wife was actress Zula Pogorzelska. "Yiddish talkies were not only comparable to those of the Polish mainstream but were produced by the same people. The most successful Yiddish talkies were directed by established industry figures including Waszyński, Ford, Henryk Szaro, Jan Nowina-Przybylski, Leon Trystan, and Konrad Tom."YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, Volume 1, p. 333 Screenplays: * '' Antek policmajster'' 1935 (with Emanuel Schlechter) * '' Ada, to nie wypada'' 1936 * '' Bolek i Lolek'' and ''Dodek na froncie'', 1936, both starred Adolf Dymsza, music Henryk Wars and Walter Dana * '' Yidl Mitn Fidl (Judeł gra na skrzypcach)'', Yiddish, 1936, starring Molly Picon * '' Książatko'' 1937 * ''A Diplomatic Wife'' (''Dyplomatyczna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.1 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 7th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures and comprises 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers . Warsaw is an Alpha global city, a major cultural, political and economic hub, and the country's seat of government. Warsaw traces its origins to a small fishing town in Masovia. The city rose to prominence in the late 16th century, when Sigismund III decided to move the Polish capital and his royal court from Kraków. Warsaw served as the de facto capital of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1795, and subsequently as the seat of Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henryk Wars
Henryk Wars (born Henryk Warszawski, after 1947 Henry Vars; 29 December 1902 – 1 September 1977) was a Polish composer. He composed scores for 50 films during the interwar period in Poland and 60 more in the United States. He composed dozens of hits for revue-theatres and films including ''Miłość ci wszystko wybaczy (Love Will Forgive You Everything)'' sung by Hanka Ordonówna, ''Umówiłem się z nią na dziewiątą (I Have a Date with Her at Nine)'' and ''Sex Appeal'' sung by Eugeniusz Bodo, ''Ach, jak przyjemnie (Ah, How Lovely!)'' and ''Już nie zapomnisz mnie (Now, You Will Remember Me)'' sung by Aleksander Żabczyński. Wars also composed a symphony, now obscure though available on the Internet, as is his Piano Concerto of 1948. After emigrating to the United States in 1947, he changed his name to Henry Vars. He was a friend of John Wayne. Biography Wars was born to a Jewish musical family in the Russian partition of Poland. He began studies at the Academy of Fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Waldau
Harry Waldau (born Valentin Pinner) (1876–1943), born in Liegnitz, Germany, was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was a Jewish pianist, composer and lyricist and part of the 1920s cabaret scene in Berlin, writing songs like ''Savannah Tango, Mensch komm mal rüber, Warum kiekste mir denn immer uff die Beene'' and ''Die Tausend-Kronen-Note'' for singer Claire Waldoff. Konrad Tom wrote Polish words for Waldau's ''Madame Loulou'' and Adam Aston performed it. Waldau was deported on 2 March 1943 from Berlin on Transport 32 and murdered in Auschwitz later that month. Waldau also composed the music for the 1930 film ''Retreat on the Rhine ''Retreat on the Rhine'' (german: Zapfenstreich am Rhein) is a 1930 German musical comedy film directed by Jaap Speyer and starring Charlotte Susa, Hans Stüwe, and Hermann Böttcher. It was made as an operetta film which emerged as a popular gen ...''.https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0907027/ IMDB References External links * Yad V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugeniusz Bodo
Eugeniusz Bodo (born Bohdan Eugène Junod; 28 December 1899 7 October 1943) was a film director, producer, and one of the most popular Polish actors and comedians of the interwar period. He starred in some of the most popular Polish film productions of the 1930s, including '' His Excellency, The Shop Assistant'' (Polish: ''Jego ekscelencja subiekt''), ''Czy Lucyna to dziewczyna?'', and ''Pieśniarz Warszawy''. A skilled singer, he became an icon of Polish musical comedy and a "symbol of Polish commercial cinema". In the late 1930s he also became a successful entrepreneur – co-owner of a successful film studio, café, and producers' company. Arrested by the Soviet ''NKVD'' in the aftermath of the German and Soviet invasion of Poland, he perished in the Soviet ''Gulag''. Biography Bohdan Eugène Junod was born on 28 December 1899. His birthplace is uncertain; sources name Warsaw, Łódź, and Geneva, Switzerland.Poskuta-Włodek (2007) His mother was Jadwiga Anna Dorota née ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mieczysław Fogg
Mieczysław Fogg (born Mieczysław Fogiel; 30 May 1901, Warsaw3 September 1990, Warsaw) was a Polish singer and artist. His popularity started well before World War II and continued well into the 1980s. He had a characteristic way of staying very serious yet slightly emotional on stage when singing. Fogg had a lyric baritone voice and can be compared to French Tino Rossi in style. Biography Mieczysław Fogiel was born 30 May 1901 in Warsaw, then a province guberniya capital in Russian Empire. He spent his childhood there and, after graduating from a local gymnasium in 1922, he started working as a railway worker. About that time, he also joined the choir of the St. Anne's Church. There his friend, Ludwik Sempoliński, made him join the classes of music organized by Jan Łysakowski, Eugeniusz Mossakowski, Wacław Brzeziński, Ignacy Dygas and many other notable Polish musicians of the epoch. Initially a hobbyist, in 1928 he met Władysław Daniłowski ''Dan'', who chose him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wielka Droga
''Wielka droga'' is a 1946 Polish film directed by Michał Waszyński. Plot The plot spans from shortly before the outbreak of World War II to its end. In the city of Lwów (PL) in 1939 Adam and Irena fall in Love, but are separated by the outbreak of the war. Both are deported by the Soviets to Siberia, where they briefly meet again when signing up to the newly created Polish army. Again separated from Irena, Adam marches with the army from Siberia through the Middle East and fights on the Italian front line. During the battle of Monte Cassino he gets wounded when participating in the first assault, temporarily losing his eyesight. In the military hospital a nurse finds his diary and, initially in the intent to relieve his suffering, later from romantic affection towards him, pretends to be his fiancée Irena. This, however, is ended when the real Irena arrives. Adam recovers from his wounds and, after the Polish victory at Monte Cassino, follows the army together with Irena to n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Włóczegi
''The Vagabonds'' (Polish: ''Włóczęgi'') is a 1939 Polish comedy film directed by Michał Waszyński and starring Kazimierz Wajda, Henryk Vogelfänger (popular Polish Radio duet ''Szczepko & Tońko'') and Stanisława Wysocka. Cast * Kazimierz Wajda - Szczepan (Szczepko) Migacz * Henryk Vogelfänger - Antoni (Tońko) Tytylyta * Stanisława Wysocka - Baroness von Dorn * Stanislawa Stepniowna - Krysia * Helena Grossówna - Wandzia Karsnicka * Antoni Fertner - Trompka, private eye * Stanisław Sielański - Niusko * Zbigniew Rakowiecki - Wladyslaw Barski * Andrzej Bogucki - Roman Karsnicki * Stanisław Grolicki - Grandfather Galecki * Helena Sulimowa - Karolina * Helena Buczyńska Helena Buczyńska (1894 in Shchigry, Kursk Governorate – 1957) was a Polish actress. Selected filmography * '' His Excellency, The Shop Assistant'' (1933) * '' Granny Had No Worries'' (1935) * ''Profesor Wilczur'' (1938) * '' The Vagabonds' ... - Gospodyni Bibliography * Skaff, Sheila. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivo Wesby
Ivo Wesby (1902–1961), born Ignacy Singer in Kraków, Poland, was a Polish composer and director. He studied music in Vienna. In the 1920s he was music director of various revi-teaters (revue theaters) in Warsaw, and in the last years before the outbreak of World War II he led the well known ''Groyse Revie (Big Revue)''.Fater, Isaschar (1970). ''Jewish Music in Poland between the Two World Wars'', p. 301 Wesby was a music director for some famous Polish and Yiddish films including ''Mamele, Fredek uszczęśliwia świat, Co mój mąż robi w nocy, Serce matki, Moi rodzice rozwodzą się, Gehenna, Rena'', and '' Królowa przedmieścia.'' In the Warsaw Ghetto, with Jerzy Jurandot he created a revi-teater in the Polish language, with actors from the Polish stage. He survived the war thanks to a Polish singer Mieczysław Fogg, who hid a family of Wesby, and emigrated to the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mamele
''Mamele'' ( yi, מאמאלע pl, Mateczka) is a Yiddish Language Polish musical film made in 1938. Synopsis Set in Łódź, the film revolves around Khavtshi Samet ( Picon), a Cinderella figure, who has taken on maternal responsibility for her family after the death of her mother — hence the title, ''Mamele'', or 'little mother.' Khavtshi is required to shop, cook and clean up after her unappreciative family. Furthermore, she must keep her siblings out of trouble: her younger brother gets mixed up with crooks and her sister Berta (Bullman) has eyes for the gangster Maks Katz (Menashe Oppenheim). Eventually Khavtshi's morale breaks, and she moves in with the handsome musician Schlesinger (Zayenda) across the courtyard. In this period of distress Khavtshi imagines the life of her grandmother in a dream-like song and dance sequence. The Samet family begs for Khavtshi to return, which she does with Schlesinger. The film closes with Khavtshi busy preparing the feast during her weddin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure In Warsaw
''Adventure in Warsaw'' (german: Abenteuer in Warschau) is a 1938 German-Polish comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Georg Alexander, Paul Klinger and Jadwiga Kenda. The film was the second of two German-Polish co-productions following ''Augustus the Strong'' (1936).Kreimeier p. 283 A separate Polish version ''A Diplomatic Wife'' was released. Cast *Georg Alexander as Exzellenz Bernardo de Rossi - Gesandter in Warschau *Paul Klinger as Henry de Fontana - Gesandtschaftsrat * Jadwiga Kenda as Jadwiga Janowska - seine Frau * Hedda Björnson as Ines Costello - eine junge Witwe * Baby Gray as Wanda - eine angehende Soubrette *Robert Dorsay as Jan - Operettenbuffo *Richard Romanowsky as Stanislaus Bilinski - Theaterdirektor *Rudolf Carl as Kupka - sein Sekretär *Mieczysława Ćwiklińska Mieczysława Ćwiklińska-SteinsbergĆwiklińska was the maiden name of Ćwiklińska's grandmother, Anna Trapszowa. (née Mieczysława Trapszo, ; 1 January 1879 – 28 July 1972) was a Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Diplomatic Wife
''A Diplomatic Wife'' ( pl, Dyplomatyczna żona) is a 1937 German-Polish comedy film directed by Carl Boese and Mieczysław Krawicz and starring Jadwiga Kenda, Aleksander Żabczyński and Lena Żelichowska. It is the Polish language version of ''Adventure in Warsaw''.Skaff p. 207 Cast * Jadwiga Kenda as Jadwiga Janowska *Aleksander Żabczyński as Henryk de Fontana * Lena Żelichowska as Inez de Costello *Mieczysława Ćwiklińska as Apolonia * Tadeusz Frenkiel as Radio Reporter *Helena Grossówna as Wanda *Loda Halama as Dancer *Wanda Jarszewska as Salon Owner *Józef Kondrat as Krupka, male secretary * Jerzy Leszczyński as Ambassador * Wojciech Ruszkowski as Jan Wolski *Igo Sym as Tenor *Michał Znicz as Theater Director References Bibliography *Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. *Kreimeier, Klaus. ''The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945''. University o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
