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Mariett Dances Today
''Mariett Dances Today'' (German: ''Heut tanzt Mariett'') is a 1928 German silent romance film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Fred Louis Lerch and Harry Halm.Nelmes & Selbo It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin and on location in the Swiss resort of St. Moritz. It was made by the German subsidiary of First National Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Andrej Andrejew and Erich Zander. Cast * Lya Mara as Mariett * Fred Louis Lerch as Robert van Dammen * Harry Halm as Ein junger Maler * Ralph Arthur Roberts as Prinz Beaufort * Kurt Gerron as Der Besitzer der Bar, Brigon * Jakob Tiedtke as Der Bürgermeister * Sophie Pagay as Die Haushälterin * Karl Harbacher as Der Schuhmacher * Josefine Dora as Seine Mutter * Fritz Kampers * Ivan Koval-Samborsky * Adele Sandrock * Franz Schafheitlin Plot summary The story begins like a fairytale: A stork, hunting for food in a Dutch village pond, picks out a baby girl and drops he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederic Zelnik
Frederic Zelnik (born Friedrich Zelnik, 17 May 1885 – 29 November 1950) was an Austrian producer, director, and actor. He was one of the most important producers-directors of the German silent cinema. Zelnik achieved success through period operetta films in the 1920s and 1930s. Biography Friedrich Zelnik was born into a Jews, Jewish family in Czernowitz, today in Ukraine, at the time the capital of the Duchy of Bukovina in the Austrian part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. After studying in Vienna, Friedrich Zelnik worked as an actor in theaters in Nürnberg, Theater Aachen, Aachen, Worms, Germany, Worms, Prague and finally Berlin - in the theaters Theater an der Königsgrätzer Straße, Berliner Theater, and Komödienhaus. In 1914 Friedrich Zelnik began acting in films, and after 1915 producing and directing movies while still appearing in roles as an actor in other director'films. In 1918 he married a young Polish ballet dancer turned film actress named Lya Mara and promoted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First National Pictures
First National Pictures was an American motion picture production and distribution company. It was founded in 1917 as First National Exhibitors' Circuit, Inc., an association of independent theatre owners in the United States, and became the country's largest theater chain. Expanding from exhibiting movies to distributing them, the company reincorporated in 1919 as Associated First National Theatres, Inc., and Associated First National Pictures, Inc. In 1924 it expanded to become a motion picture production company as First National Pictures, Inc., and became an important studio in the film industry. In September 1928, control of First National passed to Warner Bros., into which it was completely absorbed on November 4, 1929. A number of Warner Bros. films were thereafter branded First National Pictures until July 1936, when First National Pictures, Inc., was dissolved. Early history The First National Exhibitors' Circuit was founded in 1917 by the merger of 26 of the biggest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Schafheitlin
Franz Schafheitlin (9 August 1895 – 6 February 1980) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1927 and 1974. He was born in Berlin, Germany and died in Pullach, Germany. Selected filmography * '' The Bordellos of Algiers'' (1927) * ''Mariett Dances Today'' (1928) * ''The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna'' (1929) * ''Napoleon at Saint Helena'' (1929) * ''Money on the Street'' (1930) as Bornhausen * '' Storm in a Water Glass'' (1931) as Prosecutor * '' The Ringer'' (1932) as Sergeant Carter * '' Daughter of the Regiment'' (1933) as Major * ''Sonnenstrahl'' (1933) as Ein Arzt im Unfallkrankenhaus * ''Frasquita'' (1934) as Juan * '' The Secret of Cavelli'' (1934) * ''Asew'' (1935) as Urzoff * ''The Cossack and the Nightingale'' (1935) as R12 * ''Eva'' (135) as Stefan, ein Arbeiter * ''The Eternal Mask'' (1935) as Monsieur Negar * ''Leutnant Bobby, der Teufelskerl'' (1935) * '' ...nur ein Komödiant'' (1935) as Blanchet, court painter * ''Die Pompadour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adele Sandrock
Adele Sandrock (; born Adele Feldern-Förster; 19 August 1863 – 30 August 1937) was a German-Dutch actress. After a successful theatrical career, she became one of the first German movie stars. Early life Sandrock was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the daughter of the German merchant Eduard Sandrock (1834–1897) and his Dutch wife, Johanna Simonetta ten Hagen (1833–1917). With sister Wilhelmine (1861-1948) and brother Christian (1862–1924), she grew up in Rotterdam, and, after her parents' divorce on 15 November 1869, in Berlin. Career In 1878 at the age of fifteen, Sandrock made her debut as Selma in ''Mutter und Sohn'' by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer. In Berlin she met the famous Meiningen Ensemble and achieved success at the theatre of Meiningen, where her first role was Luise in Friedrich Schiller's ''Intrigue and Love'', followed by further engagements in Moscow, Wiener Neustadt, and Budapest. In 1889, she had her breakthrough at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Koval-Samborsky
Ivan Koval-Samborsky ( Ukrainian: Іван Коваль-Самборський; 16 September 1893 – 10 January 1962) was a Ukrainian stage and film actor. After establishing himself in the Soviet film industry in the 1920s, he briefly went to work in Germany during the late 1920s before returning to Russia following the arrival of sound. In 1938 he was arrested by the Soviet authorities leading to his most recent film, the anti-Nazi '' The Swamp Soldiers'', having to be reshot to minimize his role.Gershenson p.20 He didn't appear in another film until 1957. Selected filmography * ''Chess Fever'' (1925) * ''His Call'' (1925) * ''Mother'' (1926) * ''Man from the Restaurant'' (1927) * '' The Forty-First'' (1927) * ''The Prince of Rogues'' (1928) * '' Mary Lou'' (1928) * '' Love in the Cowshed'' (1928) *''The Yellow Ticket'' (1928) * '' Knights of the Night'' (1928) * '' Mariett Dances Today'' (1928) * '' When the Guard Marches'' (1928) * ''Cagliostro'' (1929) * '' My Heart is a Jazz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Kampers
Fritz Kampers (14 July 1891 – 1 September 1950) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1913 and 1950. Early life Fritz Kampers was the son of a Munich hotel owner, spent his early childhood in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and attended a boarding school in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria. After completing secondary school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship in a textile shop in Munich and at the same time took acting classes with Richard Stury, who presided as president of the Munich experimental stage. After appearances at small suburbs in Munich, such as the Alhambratheater, he wandered through the province and finally found engagements in Alzey, Karlsruhe, Lucerne, Sondershausen, Helmstedt and Aachen. During the First World War he served as a cavalryman on the eastern front, was wounded, fired and joined the front theaters in Warsaw and Łódź. During a commitment begun in 1917 at the Munich Volkstheater Fritz Kampers got to know the director Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josefine Dora
Josefine Dora (born Isidora Emilie Friese; 13 November 1867 – 28 May 1944) was an Austrian stage and film actress. She appeared in over 100 films, generally in supporting roles such as in ''The Virtuous Sinner'' (1931).Prawer p.137 Selected filmography * '' The Doll'' (1919) * ''Romeo and Juliet in the Snow'' (1920) * '' The Law of the Desert'' (1920) * ''Rebel Liesel'' (1920) * '' The Clan'' (1920) * ''The Brothers Karamazov'' (1921) * ''The Stranger from Alster Street'' (1921) * ''The Three Aunts'' (1921) * '' The Flight into Death'' (1921) * ''Trix, the Romance of a Millionairess'' (1921) * ''The Game with Women'' (1922) * ''The Flight into Marriage'' (1922) * '' Shadows of the Past'' (1922) * '' Lumpaci the Vagabond'' (1922) * ''Friedrich Schiller'' (1923) * '' The Game of Love'' (1924) * ''Express Train of Love'' (1925) * ''Ballettratten'' (1925) * ''The Circus Princess'' (1925) * '' The False Prince'' (1927) * ''The Love of Jeanne Ney'' (1927) * ''Mariett Dances Today'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Harbacher
Karl Harbacher (1879–1943) was an Austrian actor. Selected filmography * '' Miss Piccolo'' (1914) * '' No Sin on the Alpine Pastures'' (1915) * ''Fanny Elssler'' (1920) * '' Das blaue Duell'' (1920) * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * ''The Dance of Love and Happiness'' (1921) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1921) * ''Circus People'' (1922) * '' Yvette, the Fashion Princesss'' (1922) * '' The Blonde Geisha'' (1923) * '' Old Heidelberg'' (1923) * '' The Woman on the Panther'' (1923) * ''Debit and Credit'' (1924) * ''New Year's Eve'' (1924) * ''By Order of Pompadour'' (1924) * '' The Venus of Montmartre'' (1925) * ''The Old Ballroom'' (1925) * ''The Salesgirl from the Fashion Store'' (1925) * ''Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * '' Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days'' (1925) * '' Struggle for the Soil'' (1925) * '' Golden Boy'' (1925) * ''The Woman with That Certain Something'' (1925) * ''Darling, Count the Cash'' (1926) * ''The Bank Crash of Unter den Linden'' (1926) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Pagay
Sophie Berg Pagay (22 April 1860 – 23 January 1937) was an Austrian stage and film actress, born in Brünn, Austria-Hungary. She began acting as a child, and went to Berlin to perform on stage in 1887. She married actor Hans Pagay. Selected filmography * ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (1917) * '' Carmen'' (1918) * ''Intoxication'' (1919) * ''A Drive into the Blue'' (1919) * '' Mascotte'' (1920) * ''Anna Boleyn'' (1920) * ''The Forbidden Way'' (1920) * '' Nobody Knows'' (1920) * ''Lotte Lore'' (1921) * '' Love at the Wheel'' (1921) * '' The Eternal Struggle'' (1921) * '' The House on the Moon'' (1921) * ''The Blood'' (1922) * ''Shame'' (1922) * ''The Girl with the Mask'' (1922) * ''His Excellency from Madagascar'' (1922) * ''Tania, the Woman in Chains'' (1922) * '' The Curse of Silence'' (1922) * '' Louise de Lavallière'' (1922) * ''Man by the Wayside'' (1923) * ''By Order of Pompadour'' (1924) * ''Darling of the King'' (1924) * ''Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * ''The Adventures o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakob Tiedtke
Jakob Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Tiedtke (23 June 1875 – 30 June 1960) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 190 films between 1914 and 1955. Selected filmography * ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1918 film), The Pied Piper of Hamelin'' (1918) * ''The Doll (1919 film), The Doll'' (1919) * ''The Galley Slave (1919 film), The Galley Slave'' (1919) * ''A Drive into the Blue'' (1919) * ''Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1920 film), Kohlhiesel's Daughters'' (1920) * ''Sumurun'' (1920) * ''Romeo and Juliet in the Snow'' (1920) * ''Kohlhiesels Töchter (1920 film), Kohlhiesels Töchter'' (1920) * ''Love at the Wheel'' (1921) * ''Peter Voss, Thief of Millions (1921 film), Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1921) * ''The Stream (film), The Stream'' (1922) * ''Sins of Yesterday'' (1922) * ''Maciste and the Chinese Chest'' (1923) * ''The Expulsion (film), The Expulsion'' (1923) * ''The Ancient Law'' (1923) * ''The Little Napoleon'' (1923) * ''Carousel (1923 film), Carousel'' (1923) * ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Gerron
Kurt Gerron (11 May 1897 – 28 October 1944) was a German History of the Jews in Germany, Jewish actor and film director. He and his wife, Olga were murdered in the Holocaust. Life Born Kurt Gerson into a well-off merchant family in Berlin, he studied medicine before being called up for military service in World War I. After being seriously wounded, he was qualified as a military doctor in the German Army (German Empire), German Army, despite having been only in his second year at university. After the war Gerron turned to a stage career, becoming a theatre actor under director Max Reinhardt in 1920. He appeared in secondary roles in several silent films and began directing film shorts in 1926. Gerron's popular cinema breakthrough came with ''The Blue Angel'' (''Der Blaue Engel'', 1930) opposite Marlene Dietrich. Two years before, Gerron originated the role of "Tiger" Brown in the 1928 premiere production of ''The Threepenny Opera'' (''Die Dreigroschenoper'') at the Berlin Theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Arthur Roberts
Ralph Arthur Roberts (born Robert Arthur Schönherr; 2 October 1884 – 12 March 1940)ROBERTS, Ralph Arthur Film & TV Database, retrieved 4 July 2013.Ralph Arthur Roberts Filmportal.de, retrieved 4 July 2013 was a German who also directed in the theatre and occasionally in film and wrote plays. From 1928 on, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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