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Leo Stein (writer)
Leo Stein, born Leo Rosenstein (25 March 1861, Lemberg – 28 July 1921, Vienna, Austria) was a playwright and librettist of operettas in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries, including works adapted for a number of Broadway productions. Stein wrote libretti for Johann Strauss Jr, Franz Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán, and Oskar Nedbal. His collaboration with Viktor Léon contributed much to Lehár's success. A selection of his works includes '' Wiener Blut'' (1899), ''Die lustige Witwe'' (1905), '' Der Graf von Luxemburg'' (1909) and '' Die Csárdásfürstin'' (1915). Stein is buried at the Vienna Zentralfriedhof. Filmography *''The Merry Widow'', directed by Michael Curtiz (Hungary, 1918) *', directed by Emil Leyde (Austria, 1919) *''The Merry Widow'', directed by Erich von Stroheim (1925) *''The Count of Luxembourg'', directed by Arthur Gregor (1926) *''The Sweet Girl'', directed by Manfred Noa (Germany, 1926) *''Schützenliesel'', directed by Rudolf Walther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Stein 1896 Vilimek
Leo or Léo may refer to: Acronyms * Law enforcement officer * Law enforcement organisation * ''Louisville Eccentric Observer'', a free weekly newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky * Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity Arts and entertainment Music * Leo (band), a Missouri-based rock band that was founded in Cleveland, Ohio * L.E.O. (band), a band by musician Bleu and collaborators Film * Leo (2000 film), ''Leo'' (2000 film), a Spanish film by José Luis Borau * Leo (2002 film), ''Leo'' (2002 film), a British-American drama film * ''Leo'', a 2007 Swedish film by Josef Fares * Leo (2012 film), ''Leo'' (2012 film), a Kenyan film * Leo the Lion (MGM), mascot of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio Television * Leo Awards, a British Columbian television award * "Leo", an List of Being Erica episodes#Season 1, episode of ''Being Erica'' * Léo, fictional lion in the animation ''Animal Crackers (TV series), Animal Crackers'' * ''Léo'', 2018 Quebec television series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Merry Widow (1918 Film)
''The Merry Widow'' ( hu, A Víg özvegy) is a 1918 Hungarian musical film directed by Michael Curtiz. It is based on the 1905 operetta by Franz Lehár. Cast * Mihály Várkonyi * Berta Valero * Endre Boross * Árpád id. Latabár * Miklós Szomory * József Bánhidy See also * Michael Curtiz filmography Michael Curtiz (1886–1962) was a Hungarian-born American film director whose career spanned from 1912 to 1961. During this period he directed, wholly or in part, 181 films. He began his cinematic career in Hungary, then moved to Austria and f ... External links * Films directed by Michael Curtiz 1918 films Hungarian black-and-white films Hungarian musical films Hungarian silent feature films Films based on operettas {{Hungary-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Csardas Princess (1934 Film)
''The Csardas Princess'' (german: Die Czardasfürstin) is a 1934 German operetta film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Mártha Eggerth, Hans Söhnker and Paul Kemp. It is based on the 1915 operetta '' Die Csárdásfürstin'' composed by Emmerich Kálmán. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. A separate French-language version ''Princesse Czardas'' was also produced. In 1951 Jacoby remade the film starring his wife Marika Rökk. Cast * Mártha Eggerth as Sylva Varescu *Hans Söhnker as Prinz Edwin Weylersheim * Paul Kemp as Graf Bonipart Kancsianu * Inge List as Countess Stasi von Planitz *Paul Hörbiger as Feri von Kerekes *Hans Junkermann as Der Kommandeur *Friedrich Ulmer as Fürst Weylersheim *Ida Wüst as Fürstin Weylersheim *Edwin Jürgensen as Der Manager *Andor Heltai as Der Zigeunerprimas *Ilse Fürstenberg as Mädi vom Chantant *Marina von Ditmar as Mädi vom Chantant *Charlott Daudert as Mädi vom Chantant *Karin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanns Schwarz
Hanns Schwarz (11 February 1888 – 27 October 1945) was an Austrian Empire, Austrian film director. He was born in Vienna on 11 February 1888. Biography He directed twenty four films between 1924 and 1937 in both English-language, English and German-language, German. During the late silent film, silent and early sound era, sound eras, he was a leading director at the large German studio Universum Film AG, UFA. In the early 1930s he worked on several Multiple-language version, multi-language version films for UFA, producing the same films in distinct German and foreign-language versions. Schwarz was Jewish and was therefore forced to leave Germany in 1933 when the Nazis took over, going into exile in Britain. His last film was the 1937 British thriller ''Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel''. He died in California on 27 October 1945. Partial filmography * ''Nanon (1924 film), Nanon'' (1924) * ''The Voice of the Heart (1924 film), The Voice of the Heart'' (1924) * ''Two People (1924 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Csardas Princess (1927 Film)
''The Csardas Princess'' (German: ''Die Czardasfürstin'') is a 1927 German-Hungarian silent romance film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Liane Haid, Imre Ráday and Ferenc Vendrey.Grange p.252 It is based on the 1915 operetta '' The Csardas Princess'', the title referring to the popular Hungarian Csárdás dance. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. Cast * Liane Haid as Sylva Verescu * Imre Ráday as Luftikus * Ferenc Vendrey as Baron Franz von Kerekes * Kálmán Zátony * Oskar Marion as Prinz Edwin von Weylersheim * Oreste Bilancia Oreste Bilancia (24 September 1881 – 31 October 1945) was an Italian film actor. Born in Catania, Sicily he was a star of Italian films in the silent era. He worked during the 1920s in Weimar Germany which had the largest European film indus ... * Gyula Zilahi as Lebemann * Ibi Boya as Stasi * Bolla Marischka References Bibliography * Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Sca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Dworsky
Rudolf Dworsky (1882–1927) was a German film producer and film director, director of the Silent era. His production company was called Aafa-Film (Althoff-Ambos-Film), Berlin, the co-owner was the producer Gabriel Levy. Selected filmography Producer * ''Ewige Schönheit'' (1919) * ''The Rose of Stamboul (1919 film), The Rose of Stamboul'' (1919) * ''Das Attentat'' (1921) * ''Bigamy (1922 film), Bigamy'' (1922) * ''The Love Nest (1922 film), The Love Nest'' (1922) * ''Lightning (1925 film), Lightning'' (1925) * ''The Schimeck Family'' (1926) * ''The Divorcée (1926 film), The Divorcée'' (1926) * ''Rhenish Girls and Rhenish Wine'' (1927) * ''A Girl of the People'' (1927) Director * ''William Tell (1923 film), William Tell'' (co-director: Rudolf Walther-Fein, 1923) * ''In the Valleys of the Southern Rhine'' (co-director: Rudolf Walther-Fein, 1925) * ''The Fallen (1926 film), The Fallen'' (co-director: Rudolf Walther-Fein, 1926) * ''Sword and Shield (film), Sword and Shield'' (co-d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Walther-Fein
Rudolf Walther-Fein (20 November 1875 – 1 May 1933) was an Austrian film director and producer of the Silent and early sound era. He directed the first full sound film to be released in Germany ''It's You I Have Loved'' in 1929.Kreimeier p.182 Selected filmography * ''Only One Night'' (1922) * ''The Big Thief'' (1922) * ''Bigamy'' (1922) * '' William Tell'' (co-director: Rudolf Dworsky, 1923) * ''The Treasure of Gesine Jacobsen'' (1923) * ''The Little Duke'' (1924) * ''In the Valleys of the Southern Rhine'' (co-director: Rudolf Dworsky, 1925) * ''Lightning'' (1925) * '' The Adventurers'' (1926) * ''The Laughing Husband'' (co-director: Rudolf Dworsky, 1926) * '' Kissing Is No Sin'' (co-director: Rudolf Dworsky, 1926) * ''Vienna, How it Cries and Laughs'' (co-director: Rudolf Dworsky, 1926) * '' The Fallen'' (co-director: Rudolf Dworsky, 1926) * ''Weekend Magic'' (1927) * '' Circle of Lovers'' (co-director: Rudolf Dworsky, 1927) * ''Carnival Magic'' (co-director: Rudolf Dw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manfred Noa
Manfred Noa (22 March 1893 – 5 December 1930) was a German film director. Noa was described by Vilma Bánky, who he directed twice, as her "favourite director". Noa's 1924 film ''Helena (1924 film), Helena'' has been called his "masterpiece" although it was so expensive that it seriously damaged the finances of Bavaria Film.Schildgen p.42 Noa is perhaps best known today for his 1922 film ''Nathan the Wise (film), Nathan the Wise'', an adaptation of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 1779 Nathan the Wise, play of the same title, which made a plea for religious tolerance. He was the third husband of the actress Eva May, who was the daughter of his fellow director Joe May. Noa died 5 December 1930 in Berlin of peritonitis. Selected filmography * ''The Uncanny House'' (1916) * ''The Diamond Foundation'' (1917) * ''The Lord of Hohenstein'' (1917) * ''Love (1919 German film), Love'' (1919) * ''The Girl and the Men'' (1919) * ''Wibbel the Tailor (1920 film), Wibbel the Tailor'' (1920) * ''Hate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sweet Girl
''The Sweet Girl'' (German: ''Das Süße Mädel'') is a 1926 German silent film directed by Manfred Noa and starring Mary Nolan, Paul Heidemann and Nils Asther.The Sounds of Silent Films p.73 It is based on an operetta. The German title is a Viennese slang term. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gustav A. Knauer and Hermann Warm Hermann Warm was a German art director for films. Born in 1889 (died 1976) in Berlin, Germany, Warm was an important figure in the expressionist movement of the 1920s. Warm entered the German film industry in 1912 after working on-stage for a whil .... Cast References Bibliography * Claus Tieber & Anna Katharina Windisch. ''The Sounds of Silent Films: New Perspectives on History, Theory and Practice''. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. External links * 1926 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by Manfred Noa Films based on operettas German black-and-white films {{Germany-silent-film-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Gregor
Arthur Gregor (1890–1948) was an Austrian-born American playwright and film director.Goble p.192 Selected filmography * ''The Count of Luxembourg'' (1926) * '' Say It with Diamonds'' (1927) * '' Women's Wares'' (1927) * '' Phyllis of the Follies'' (1928) * '' The Scarlet Dove'' (1928) * ''What Price Decency ''What Price Decency'' is a 1933 American drama film directed by Arthur Gregor and starring Dorothy Burgess, Alan Hale and Walter Byron. The director adapted the story from one his own plays.Goble p.192 It is now considered a lost film. Cast * ...'' (1933) Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. References External links * 1890 births 1948 deaths American film directors Austrian film directors Austrian emigrants to the United States Film people from Vienna {{US-film-director-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Count Of Luxembourg (1926 Film)
''The Count of Luxembourg'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Arthur Gregor and starring George Walsh, Helen Lee Worthing, and Michael Dark. It is based on the plot of Franz Lehar's operetta, ''The Count of Luxembourg ''The Count of Luxembourg'' is an operetta in two acts with English lyrics and libretto by Basil Hood and Adrian Ross, music by Franz Lehár, based on Lehár's three-act German operetta ''Der Graf von Luxemburg'' which had premiered in Vienna in ...''.Goble p. 279 Plot As described in a film magazine review, Duke Rutzinoff, who cannot marry Angele Didier, the woman he loves, because she has no title, arranges for a count to marry her to give her a title, and to divorce her immediately afterward. To this offer Count Rene Duval agrees in order to obtain money for a friend. The newlyweds happen to meet after the ceremony without knowing they are married, and fall in love. The Duke denounces them for breaking the agreement, and a duel follows. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Von Stroheim
Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim (born Erich Oswald Stroheim; September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian-American director, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era. His 1924 film ''Greed'' (an adaptation of Frank Norris's 1899 novel ''McTeague'') is considered one of the finest and most important films ever made. After clashes with Hollywood studio bosses over budget and workers' rights problems, Stroheim found it difficult to find work as a director and subsequently became a well-respected character actor, particularly in French cinema. For his early innovations as a director, Stroheim is still celebrated as one of the first of the auteur directors.Obituary ''Variety'', May 15, 1957, page 75. He helped introduce more sophisticated plots and noirish sexual and psychological undercurrents into cinema. He died of prostate cancer in France in 1957, at the age of 71. Beloved by Parisian neo-Surrealists kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
