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Men, Animals And Sensations
''Men, Animals and Sensations'' (German: ''Menschen, Tiere, Sensationen'') is a 1938 German drama film directed by and starring Harry Piel and also featuring Ruth Eweler and Elisabeth Wendt. It is a circus film. It was shot at the Terra Studios in Berlin with sets designed by the art director Max Knaake.Klaus p.136 Location filming took place at the Sarrasani circus in Dresden. Cast * Harry Piel as Robert Hansen / Gen. Bobby / Artist * Ruth Eweler as Fedora * Elisabeth Wendt as Maja de Passy * Edith Oß as Estrella - genannt Ella * Josef Karma as Franz - Tierpfleger * Egon Brosig as Hopkins - Assistent bei Fedora * Willi Schur as Theateragent * Eugen Rex as Der Zauberkünstler * Franz Arzdorf as Gast in der Hotelbar "Astoria" * Charly Berger as Ringmeister im Varieté * Raffles Bill as Varietéartist * Gerhard Dammann as Krause, Hausmeister * Liesl Eckardt as Garderobenfrau von Fedora * Charles Francois as Ein Ober in der Bar * Knut Hartwig as Ober * Alfred Karen as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Piel
Heinrich Piel (12 July 1892 – 27 March 1963), known professionally as Harry Piel, was a prolific German actor, film director, screenwriter, and film producer who was involved in over 150 films. Piel became a director in 1912, turning out such box-office successes as ''Mann Gegen Mann'' (1928), ''Achtung! - Auto-Diebe!'' (1930) and ''Artisten'' (1935). His last directorial effort was 1953's ''Gesprengte Gitter (Elephant Fury'', a.k.a. ''Panic''), which he also produced, wrote, and starred. Early life After attending elementary school in Benrath and High School in Derendorf, Piel became a cadet in 1909 on a sailing ship, the ''Grand Duchess Elizabeth''. In 1911, however, he finished his cadet hood and moved to Berlin in 1912 where he created the "Art Film Publishing House Company" and made, as a director, screenwriter and producer, his first feature ''Black Blood'' (1912) with Curt Goetz in the lead role. Further films followed, based on adventure and action. Career Piel recei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Knaake
Max Knaake (1886–1968) was a German art director.Greco p.186 Selected filmography * ''La Boheme'' (1923) * ''Curfew'' (1925) * '' Battle of the Sexes'' (1926) * '' The Sporck Battalion'' (1927) * ''Hurrah! I Live!'' (1928) * '' The Sinner'' (1928) * ''Taxi at Midnight'' (1929) * ''Storm of Love'' (1929) * '' Farewell'' (1930) * '' Today Is the Day'' (1933) * '' Must We Get Divorced?'' (1933) * ''At the Strasbourg'' (1934) * ''Counsel for Romance'' (1936) * ''Men, Animals and Sensations'' (1938) * '' Glück bei Frauen'' (1944) * ''Elephant Fury ''Elephant Fury'' (german: Gesprengte Gitter) is a 1953 West German drama war film directed by and starring Harry Piel.Rentschler p.283 It also features Herbert A.E. Bohme, Hans Zesch-Ballot and Dorothea Wieck. The film had a troubled production ...'' (1953) * '' Wer seine Frau lieb hat'' (1955) References Bibliography * Greco, Joseph. ''The File on Robert Siodmak in Hollywood, 1941-1951''. Universal-Publishers, 1999. External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liesl Eckardt
Liesl is a feminine given name of German origin. It is a diminutive of Lieselotte and Elisabeth. Notable people with the name include: * Liesl Herbst 1903–1990), Austrian tennis player * Liesl Jobson, South African poet *Liesl Karlstadt (1892–1960), German actress and cabaret performer * Liesl Perkaus (1905–1987), Austrian track and field athlete * Liesl Ischia, Australian diver * Liesl Seewald, Austrian luger *Liesl Tommy, South African-American director Fictional characters *Liesl von Trapp, a character in ''The Sound of Music ''The Sound of Music'' is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, '' The Story of the Trapp Family Singers''. Se ...'' and fictionalized version of Agathe von Trapp {{given name German feminine given names Feminine given names Swiss feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Dammann
Gerhard Dammann (30 March 1883 – 21 February 1946) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * '' The Man in the Cellar'' (1914) * ''Under the Lantern'' (1928) * '' Eva in Silk'' (1928) * '' Lemke's Widow'' (1928) * ''When the Mother and the Daughter'' (1928) * ''The Strange Night of Helga Wangen'' (1928) * '' Death Drive for the World Record'' (1929) * ''Children of the Street'' (1929) * ''Zwei Brüder'' (1929) * ''Woman in the Moon'' (1929) * '' Roses Bloom on the Moorland'' (1929) * ''Sin and Morality'' (1929) * '' Giftgas'' (1929) * ''Masks'' (1929) * ''Painted Youth'' (1929) * ''The Cabinet of Doctor Larifari'' (1930) * ''Rag Ball'' (1930) * '' Marriage Strike'' (1930) * '' My Leopold'' (1931) * ''Grock'' (1931) * '' Without Meyer, No Celebration is Complete'' (1931) * ''Marriage with Limited Liability'' (1931) * '' Different Morals'' (1931) * '' Crime Reporter Holm'' (1932) * '' Between Night and Dawn'' (1931) * '' A Crafty Youth'' (1931) * '' Bobby Gets Going'' (1931 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffles Bill
Raffles may refer to: People *Sir Stamford Raffles (1781–1826), British statesman, Lieutenant Governor of Java and founder of Singapore in 1819 *Thomas Raffles (1788–1863), English Congregational minister *Frank Boucher (1901–1977), Canadian ice hockey player and executive nicknamed "Raffles" Schools *Raffles Girls' Primary School, an all-girls primary school in Singapore *Raffles Girls' School, an all-girls secondary school in Singapore *Raffles Institution, a pre-tertiary educational institution in Singapore *Raffles Junior College, the formerly independent junior college affiliate of Raffles Institution *National University of Singapore, formerly known as Raffles College *Raffles University, Neemrana, Rajasthan, India *Raffles International Christian School, a school in Indonesia Business *Raffles City Singapore, a shopping mall *Raffles City Shanghai, China *Raffles City Chongqing, China *Raffles Hotel in Singapore, named after Stamford Raffles *Raffles Hotels & Resort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charly Berger
''Charly'' (marketed and stylized as ''CHAЯLY'') is a 1968 American drama film directed and produced by Ralph Nelson and written by Stirling Silliphant. It is based on ''Flowers for Algernon'', a science-fiction short story (1958) and subsequent novel (1966) by Daniel Keyes. The film stars Cliff Robertson as Charly Gordon, an intellectually disabled adult who is selected by two doctors to undergo a surgical procedure that triples his IQ as it had done for a laboratory mouse who underwent the same procedure. The film also stars Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala, Leon Janney, Dick Van Patten and Barney Martin. Robertson had played the same role in a 1961 television adaptation titled " The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon," an episode of the anthology series ''The United States Steel Hour''. The film received positive reviews and was a success at the box office and later in home media sales. Robertson won Best Actor at the Academy Awards. Plot Charly Gordon is an intellectually disabled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Arzdorf
Franz Arzdorf (5 May 1904 – 24 April 1974) was a German stage, film and television actor.Jacobsen & Prinzler p.276 Selected filmography * ''Love Can Lie'' (1937) * '' Dangerous Game'' (1937) * ''Talking About Jacqueline'' (1937) * '' A Night in May'' (1938) * '' Men, Animals and Sensations'' (1938) * ''A Girl Goes Ashore'' (1938) * '' People Who Travel'' (1938) * '' Kitty and the World Conference '' (1939) * '' Escape in the Dark'' (1939) * '' The Merciful Lie'' (1939) * '' The Governor'' (1939) * ''The Three Codonas'' (1940) * '' Counterfeiters'' (1940) * '' Friedemann Bach'' (1941) * '' The Swedish Nightingale'' (1941) * ''The Golden Spider'' (1943) * '' Dark Eyes'' (1951) * '' Mikosch Comes In'' (1952) * ''Mailman Mueller ''Mailman Mueller'' (german: Briefträger Müller) is a 1953 West German comedy film directed by John Reinhardt and starring Heinz Rühmann, Heli Finkenzeller and Wolfgang Condrus.Körner p.367 It was shot in Agfacolor at the Tempelhof Studios ...'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugen Rex
Eugen is a masculine given name which may refer to: * Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863–1954), last Habsburg Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order from 1894 to 1923 * Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke (1865–1947), Swedish painter, art collector, and patron of artists * Prince Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe (1899–1929) * Prince Eugen of Bavaria (1925–1997) * Eugen Bacon, female African-Australian author * Eugen Beza (born 1978), Romanian football manager and former player * Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939), Swiss psychiatrist and eugenicist * Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851–1914), Austrian economist * Eugen Bolz (1881–1945), German politician and member of the anti-Nazi resistance * Eugen Chirnoagă (1891–1965), Romanian chemist * Eugen Cicero (1940–1997), Romanian-German jazz pianist * Eugen Ciucă (1913–2005), Romanian-American artist * Eugen d'Albert (1864–1932), Scottish-born pianist and composer * Eugen Doga (born 1937), Romanian composer from Moldova * Eugen Drewermann (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Schur
Willi Schur (22 August 1888 – 1 November 1940) was a German actor and singer. He appeared in roughly ninety feature films in a variety of supporting roles. Selected filmography * '' Berlin-Alexanderplatz'' (1931) * ''Who Takes Love Seriously?'' (1931) * '' The Captain from Köpenick'' (1931) * '' All is at Stake'' (1932) * '' Dreaming Lips'' (1932) * ''Sacred Waters'' (1932) * ''Gypsies of the Night'' (1932) * '' The Victor'' (1932) * ''The Invisible Front'' (1932) * ''A Tremendously Rich Man'' (1932) * '' Five from the Jazz Band'' (1932) * ''The Racokzi March'' (1933) * ''A City Upside Down'' (1933) * ''The House of Dora Green'' (1933) * '' The Star of Valencia'' (1933) * ''Gold'' (1934) * ''My Heart Calls You'' (1934) * ''Police Report'' (1934) * ''The Grand Duke's Finances'' (1934) * '' Hard Luck Mary'' (1934) * '' Music in the Blood'' (1934) * '' The Double'' (1934) * ''Miss Liselott'' (1934) * ''Trouble with Jolanthe'' (1934) * '' Master of the World'' (1934) * ''Don't Lose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egon Brosig
Egon is a variant of the male given name Eugene. It is most commonly found in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Estonia, Hungary, Slovakia, Sweden, Denmark, and parts of the Netherlands and Belgium. The name can also be derived from the Germanic element ''egin'' which means "sword, blade". Egon may refer to: People * Egon VIII of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (1588–1635), Imperial Count of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (1618–1635) and a military leader in the Thirty Years' War * Egon Bahr (1922–2015), German politician * Egon Bondy (1930–2007), Czech philosopher * Egon Coordes (born 1944), German footballer and coach * Egon Eiermann (1904–1970), German architect * Egon Franke (fencer) (born 1935), Polish Olympic fencer * Egon Franke (politician) (1913–1995), German politician * Egon Frid (born 1957), Swedish politician * Egon Friedell (1878–1938), Austrian writer * Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt (1892-1965), German physical anthropologist * Egon Guttman(1927-2021), Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Oß
Edith Oß (1914–2012) was a German dancer and film actress.Lentz p.218-19 Selected filmography * ''The Private Life of Louis XIV'' (1935) * '' All Because of the Dog'' (1935) * ''Punks Arrives from America'' (1935) * '' Men, Animals and Sensations'' (1938) * '' We Danced Around the World'' (1939) * ''The Girl at the Reception'' (1940) * ''Women Are Better Diplomats'' (1941) * ''Clarissa'' (1941) * ''We Make Music'' (1942) * '' The Night in Venice'' (1943) * ''A Flea in Her Ear ''A Flea in Her Ear'' (french: La Puce à l'oreille) is a play by Georges Feydeau written in 1907, at the height of the Belle Époque. The author called it a vaudeville, but in Anglophone countries, where it is the most popular of Feydeau's play ...'' (1943) * '' The Time with You'' (1948) * '' Once on the Rhine'' (1952) References Bibliography * Lentz III, Harris M. ''Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2012''. McFarland, 2013. External links * 1914 births 2012 deaths German female dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
