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Nanon (1938 Film)
''Nanon'' is a 1938 German historical film directed by Herbert Maisch and starring Erna Sack, Johannes Heesters and Dagny Servaes.Goble p. 484 It is based on the original operetta ''Nanon'' by Richard Genée which had a libretto by F Zell, although the music for this film was specially commissioned from Alois Melichar. It was produced by the giant German studio UFA, and is part of a cycle of operetta films made during the 1930s. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Kettelhut. It was a remake of the 1924 silent film of the same title. Cast * Erna Sack as Nanon Patin * Johannes Heesters as Marquis Charles d'Aubigne * Dagny Servaes as Ninon de l'Enclos * Kurt Meisel as Hector * Otto Gebühr as Jean Baptiste Molière * Oskar Sima as Marquis de Marsillac * Karl Paryla as Louis XIV * Berthold Ebbecke as Pierre * Ursula Deinert as Tänzerin * Clemens Hasse as Francois Patin * Paul Westermeier as 1. Korporal * Armin Schweizer as 2. Korporal * Oskar Höcker as 3. Kor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Maisch
Herbert Maisch (born 10 December 1890in Nürtingen, Württemberg, died 10 October 1974 in Köln) was a German film director. Selected filmography * '' The Royal Waltz'' (1935) * ''Boccaccio'' (1936) * '' Love's Awakening'' (1936) * '' Men Without a Fatherland'' (1937) * ''Nights in Andalusia'' (1938) * '' Nanon'' (1938) * '' D III 88'' (1939) * ''Andreas Schlüter'' (1942) * ''Music in Salzburg ''Music in Salzburg'' (german: Musik in Salzburg) is a 1944 German comedy film directed by Herbert Maisch and starring Willy Birgel, Lil Dagover and Hans Nielsen.Bock & Bergfelder p. 43 The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Me ...'' (1944) References External links * 1890 births 1974 deaths People from Nürtingen Film directors from Baden-Württemberg People from the Kingdom of Württemberg Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it visual communication, communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style (visual arts), style(s) to use, and when to use motion graphic design, motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armin Schweizer
Armin Schweizer (28 April 1892 – 8 October 1968) was a Swiss actor. Schweizer was born in Zurich, Switzerland and died there at age 76 Selected filmography * ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'' (1918) * '' The Galley Slave'' (1919) * ''The Mayor of Zalamea'' (1920) * ''Stradivari'' (1935) * '' August der Starke'' (1936) * ''Der Kaiser von Kalifornien'' (1936) * ''Kleine Scheidegg'' (1937) * ''The Mountain Calls'' (1938) * '' Nanon'' (1938) * ''Bachelor's Paradise'' (1939) * ''Constable Studer'' (1939) * '' Who's Kissing Madeleine?'' (1939) * ''The Three Codonas'' (1940) * ''Jakko'' (1941) * ''Riding for Germany'' (1941) * '' Münchhausen'' (1943) * '' Young Hearts'' (1944) * ''Madness Rules'' (1947) * ''An Everyday Story'' (1948) * '' After the Storm'' (1948) * ''Heidi'' (1952) * ''Bandits of the Autobahn'' (1955) * '' Bäckerei Zürrer'' (1957) * ''William Tell William Tell (german: Wilhelm Tell, ; french: Guillaume Tell; it, Guglielmo Tell; rm, Guglielm Tell) is a folk hero of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Westermeier
Paul Westermeier (9 July 1892 – 17 October 1972) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * '' Wedding in the Eccentric Club'' (1917) * ''Agnes Arnau and Her Three Suitors'' (1918) * ''About the Son'' (1921) * '' Memoirs of a Film Actress'' (1921) * ''Children of Darkness'' (1921) * '' The Big Shot'' (1922) * '' The Enchantress'' (1924) * ''Annemarie and Her Cavalryman'' (1926) * ''The Pride of the Company'' (1926) * ''Circus Romanelli'' (1926) * ''We'll Meet Again in the Heimat'' (1926) * ''A Crazy Night'' (1927) * ''The Long Intermission'' (1927) * ''Always Be True and Faithful'' (1927) * '' Lemke's Widow'' (1928) * '' Dyckerpotts' Heirs'' (1928) * '' Dear Homeland'' (1929) * ''Retreat on the Rhine'' (1930) * '' Josef the Chaste'' (1930) * ''Alraune'' (1930) * ''The Little Escapade'' (1931) *'' Errant Husbands'' (1931) * '' A Crafty Youth'' (1931) * '' Everyone Asks for Erika'' (1931) * ''The Beggar Student'' (1931) * '' Weekend in Paradise'' (1931) * ''The Soaring Maid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clemens Hasse
Clemens Hasse (13 April 1908 – 28 July 1959) was a German actor and synchroniser. Biography Hasse was born in Königsberg, East Prussia to a public official and attended his stage education at the ''Preussisches Staatstheater'' in Berlin. Between 1929 and 1944, when the Theater was closed down, he was a constant member of the Staatstheater ensemble. Hasse first appeared in a UFA movie in 1932 and acted in several movies next to popular stars like Heinz Rühmann or Hans Albers. He was the German dubbing voice of Eddie Albert, Lou Costello, José Ferrer, Oliver Hardy, Sid James and also the voice of the white rabbit in Disneys ''Alice in Wonderland''. After World War II Hasse worked at the ''Schlosspark-Theater'' Berlin and after 1951 at the ''Schillertheater''. He died of a heart attack at New York City on the occasion of his daughter's marriage and is buried at Waldfriedhof Dahlem The Waldfriedhof Dahlem ( Dahlem forest cemetery) is a cemetery in Berlin, in the district ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula Deinert
Ursula Deinert (17 October 1910 – 21 December 1988) was a German dancer and film actress. Selected filmography * ''Woman's Love—Woman's Suffering'' (1937) * '' Nanon'' (1938) * '' Capriccio'' (1938) * '' Robert and Bertram'' (1939) * ' (1939) * '' Woman at the Wheel'' (1939) * '' My Aunt, Your Aunt'' (1939) * '' The Rothschilds'' (1940) * ''Jud Süß (, "Süss the Jew") is a 1940 Nazi German historical drama and propaganda film produced by Terra Film at the behest of Joseph Goebbels. It is considered one of the most antisemitic films of all time. The film was directed by Veit Harlan, who ...'' (1940) * '' Sonntagskinder'' (1941) * '' Pedro Will Hang'' (1941) Bibliography * O'Brien, Mary-Elizabeth. ''Nazi Cinema as Enchantment: The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich''. Camden House, 2006. External links * 1910 births 1988 deaths German film actresses German female dancers Actresses from Berlin 20th-century German actresses {{Germany-film-acto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berthold Ebbecke
Berthold Ebbecke (1906–1969) was a German actor and screenwriter. He collaborated with Ludwig Metzger.Noack p. 272 Selected filmography Actor * '' Trouble Backstairs'' (1935) * ''The Court Concert'' (1936) * ''The Beggar Student'' (1936) * ''Ride to Freedom'' (1937) * '' Secret Code LB 17'' (1938) * '' Nanon'' (1939) * '' In the Name of the People'' (1939) * ''The Murder Trial of Doctor Jordan'' (1949) * ''The Trip to Marrakesh'' (1949) * ''Theodore the Goalkeeper'' (1950) Writer * '' Secret Code LB 17'' (1938) * ''Central Rio ''Central Rio'' (German: ''Zentrale Rio'') is a 1939 German crime film directed by Erich Engels and starring Leny Marenbach, Camilla Horn and Ita Rina.Noack p.157 The film's sets were designed by the art director Willi Herrmann. It was shot at th ...'' (1939) References Bibliography * Noack, Frank. ''Veit Harlan: The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker''. University Press of Kentucky, 2016. * Tegel, Susan. ''Jew Suss: Life, Legend, Fiction, Film''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis XIV Of France
, house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France , burial_date = 9 September 1715 , burial_place = Basilica of Saint-Denis , religion = Catholicism (Gallican Rite) , signature = Louis XIV Signature.svg Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 14 May 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign in history whose date is verifiable. Although Louis XIV's France was emblematic of the age of absolutism in Europe, the King surrounded himself with a variety of significant political, military, and cultural figures, such as Bossuet, Colbert, Le Brun, Le Nôtre, Lully, Mazarin, Molière, Racine, Turenne, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Paryla
Karl Paryla (1905–1996) was an Austrian theater actor and director, and later a film maker as well. A lifelong, dedicated communist, his career in the Austrian theater was first interrupted by the Second World War, and then strained by Cold War politics. In the 1950s he began working in East Germany, where he performed as an actor and directed plays and films. An actor trained in the school of Constantin Stanislavski, he is praised for the realism he brought to his performances especially in Johann Nestroy's plays and for his ability to organize large ensembles dynamically on the stage. He is remembered also for his work ethic and his fervent belief in the emancipatory power of the theater. Biography Paryla was born to working-class parents; his father was an instrument maker, and a lower officer and civil servant in the administration of Austria-Hungary. Born Catholic, he dropped his religious affiliation in 1922. He trained at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oskar Sima
Oskar Sima (31 July 1896 – 24 June 1969) was an Austrian actor who is best remembered for appearing in supporting roles in countless comedy films from the 1930s to the 1960s. Born in Hohenau an der March, Lower Austria, Sima attended high school in Vienna. After a brief tour in the army during World War I, he began acting in various theatrical productions in Berlin, Vienna, and other cities in Central Europe. He began his film career in 1921, and appeared in a number of German silent films early on. Sima was frequently cast as the comic villain whose machinations get everyone into trouble, although often his villainous stature was used to more chilling effect. In 1929, Sima married actress Lina Woiwode. The couple remained married until Sima's death. Along with Friedl Czepa, Fred Hennings and Leni Riefenstahl he was identified as being an active supporter of the Nazi Party. After World War II, Sima was a frequent character actor, causing one biographer to write, "... there w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (, ; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, , ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playwright today. His influence is such that the French language is often referred to as the "language of Molière". Born into a prosperous family and having studied at the Collège de Clermont (now Lycée Louis-le-Grand), Molière was well suited to begin a life in the theatre. Thirteen years as an itinerant actor helped him polish his comedic abilities while he began writing, combining Commedia dell'arte elements with the more refined French comedy. Through the patronage of aristocrats including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Gebühr
Otto Gebühr (29 May 1877 – 13 March 1954) was a German theatre and film actor, who appeared in 102 films released between 1917 and 1954. He is noted for his performance as the Prussian king Frederick the Great in numerous films. Early life Born in Kettwig (today part of Essen) in the Rhine Province, the son of a merchant, Gebühr attended the '' gymnasium'' secondary school in Cologne and completed a commercial training. Alongside he took drama lessons and began his acting career at the Görlitz city theatre. In 1898 he joined the ensemble of the Königliches Hoftheater Dresden and from 1908 performed at the Lessing Theater in Berlin. As a World War I volunteer he achieved the rank of a Lieutenant in the German Army. Film career After the war he worked with director Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. At the same time he obtained his first film performances with the help of his colleague Paul Wegener. He found the role of his lifetime in 1919, acting as King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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