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Roswolsky's Mistress
''Roswolsky's Mistress'' (german: Die Geliebte Roswolskys) is a 1921 German silent film, silent drama film directed by Felix Basch and starring Asta Nielsen, Paul Wegener, and Wilhelm Diegelmann. It was based on a novel by George Froeschel. The film was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin, with sets designed by art directors Robert Neppach and Jack Winter. According to one estimate, the star Asta Nielsen wore thirty six different costumes during the course of the film. Plot A working class girl is mistakenly believed to have become the mistress of a billionaire. Cast *Asta Nielsen as Mary Verhag *Paul Wegener as Eugen Roswolsky *Wilhelm Diegelmann as secretary *Ferdinand von Alten as Lico Mussafin *Marga von Kierska as Fernande Raway *Guido Herzfeld as Flügelmann, moneylender *Arnold Korff as coroner *Carl Bayer as jeweller *Adolphe Engers as Jean Meyer *Ernst Gronau as Layton *Max Landa as Baron Albich *Adolf E. Licho as theater director *Maria Peterson as room landlord *Em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Basch
Felix Basch (1885–1944) was an American-Austrian actor, screenwriter and film director. He first acted in Vienna, and he was a producer and director for the German film production company UFA GmbH, U. F. A. Following the Nazi takeover of power in Germany in 1933, the Jewish Basch was forced out of films and went into exile, moving to the United States where he appeared in a large number of films acting in character actor, character roles. He was married to the actress and singer Grete Freund and was the father of Peter Basch. Richard Tauber was a second cousin of his . According to U.S. immigration entry records, he gained his American citizenship through his father. Basch died May 18, 1944, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood, California, after several major operations. Selected filmography Actor Director * ''The Rose of Stamboul (1919 film), The Rose of Stamboul'' (1919) * ''Patience (film), Patience'' (1920) * ''Mascotte (film), Masco ... [...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] |
Emil Rameau
Emil Rameau (born Emil Pulvermacher; 13 August 1878 – 9 September 1957) was a German film and theatre actor, and for many years the deputy artistic director at the Schiller Theater. He appeared in nearly 100 films between 1915 and 1949. Life and career After his graduation from Realschule Rameau got an actor. His first role was Marcellus in ''Julius Caesar'' in Bromberg (today Bydgoszcz in Poland). In 1906 he went to the Schiller Theater in Berlin, where Rameau worked with Leopold Jessner. From 1923 until 1931 he was the vicarious intendant at the Schiller theater. He directed some plays at the Volksbühne. Emil Rameau worked also with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater. Rameau made his film debut in 1915 and appeared regularly in German silent films, mostly in character roles. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, Rameau escaped through Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, and Great Britain to the United States. During the Second World War, he had small appearances i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf E
Adolf (also spelt Adolph or Adolphe, Adolfo and when Latinised Adolphus) is a given name used in German-speaking countries, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Flanders, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latin America and to a lesser extent in various Central European and East European countries with non-Germanic languages, such as Lithuanian Adolfas and Latvian Ādolfs. Adolphus can also appear as a surname, as in John Adolphus, the English historian. The female forms Adolphine and Adolpha are far more rare than the male names. The name is a compound derived from the Old High German ''Athalwolf'' (or ''Hadulf''), a composition of ''athal'', or ''adal'', meaning "noble" (or '' had(u)''-, meaning "battle, combat"), and ''wolf''. The name is cognate to the Anglo-Saxon name '' Æthelwulf'' (also Eadulf or Eadwulf). The name can also be derived from the ancient Germanic elements "Wald" meaning "power", "brightness" and wolf (Waldwulf). Due to negative associations with Adolf Hitl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Landa
Max Landa ( be, Макс Ландаў; 24 April 1873 – 8 November 1933; born Max Landau) was a Russian-born Austrian silent film and stage actor. Career Landa attended the Handelsakademie (commercial academy) in Vienna and took classes with acting teacher in the same city. After working as a bank clerk for a short period he decided to focus on his acting career in 1893. After working at various theatres in Austria and Germany for about twenty years he was discovered in Berlin as leading man by movie star Asta Nielsen with whom he played in several movies directed by Urban Gad. When Joe May founded his own film production company in 1915 he formed a contract with Max Landa who became the first of a number of actors to play the role of the fictional British detective Joe Deebs, created as a rival to Sherlock Holmes during the silent era.Prawer p.88 The Jewish Landa and his wife Margot Walter fled Germany following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, and he committed suicid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Gronau
Ernst Gronau (21 August 1887 – 10 August 1938) was a German stage, writer and film actor. Selected filmography * ''Prostitution'' (1919) * '' Genuine'' (1920) * ''Roswolsky's Mistress'' (1921) * ''The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921) * ''Miss Julie'' (1922) * '' The Stream'' (1922) * ''The Curse of Silence'' (1922) * ''The Game with Women'' (1922) * ''Man by the Wayside'' (1923) * ''And Yet Luck Came'' (1923) * '' Liebesbriefe der Baronin von S...'' (1924) * ''Wood Love'' (1925) * '' His Late Excellency'' (1927) * ''Prinz Louis Ferdinand'' (1927) * ''Father and Son'' (1930) * ''I for You, You for Me ''I for You, You for Me'' (German: ''Ich für dich, du für mich'') is a 1934 German drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Ruth Eweler, Karl Dannemann and Carl de Vogt. It was made as a propaganda film in support of the Nazi regime's ...'' (1934) Bibliography * Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. ''Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene''. Berghahn Books, 1999. Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolphe Engers
Adolphe Engers (1884–1945) was a Dutch writer and actor on stage and in the movies, who appeared in more than fifty films during his career, a number of them in Weimar Germany. Biography Before his career in film, he was an actor on the stage and a writer. In 1920, he published ''Peccavi...???'', a then-scandalous novel with a gay protagonist, co-written with fellow actor Ernst Winar. A performer of considerable talent, he was to be honored for his achievements on the stage in the 1930s by an honorary committee that included Simon Carmiggelt, who related that, when the committee members understood that Engers himself was gay, withdrew from the committee one after the other. Other works were a screenplay about the closing of the Zuiderzee The Zuiderzee or Zuider Zee (; old spelling ''Zuyderzee'' or ''Zuyder Zee'') was a shallow bay of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands, extending about 100 km (60 miles) inland and at most 50 km (30 miles) wide, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Korff
Arnold Peter Kirsch-Korff (2 August 1870 – 2 June 1944) was an Austrian-born American Hollywood actor and director. He appeared in a number of German and Austrian films before moving to the United States and resuming his career in America. He made his first appearance on the American stage in Denver in 1892. Selected filmography * '' Hannerl and Her Lovers'' (1921) * ''Ilona'' (1921) * ''Roswolsky's Mistress'' (1921) * ''The Inheritance of Tordis'' (1921) * ''The Story of a Maid'' (1921) * '' Nights of Terror'' (1921) * '' The Haunted Castle'' (1921) * ''Lola Montez, the King's Dancer'' (1922) * '' Power of Temptation'' (1922) * '' The Curse of Silence'' (1922) * ''Miss Julie'' (1922) * '' Victims of Passion'' (1922) * ''Sins of Yesterday'' (1922) * ''The Lost Shoe'' (1923) * '' The Secret of the Duchess'' (1923) * ''The Final Mask'' (1924) * '' Athletes'' (1925) * ''The Dice Game of Life'' (1925) * ''Hussar Fever'' (1925) * ''Den of Iniquity'' (1925) * ''The Humble Man and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guido Herzfeld
Guido Herzfeld (born Guido Kornfeld; 1870 – 16 November 1923) was a German stage and film actor. Herzfeld established himself in the theatre in the nineteenth century. In 1914 he made his film debut and went on to appear in over sixty films before his death. His notable screen roles include appearances in Ernst Lubitsch's comedy '' Shoe Palace Pinkus'' (1916) and Victor Janson's First World War propaganda film ''The Yellow Ticket'' (1918). In 1920 he played the lead in Ewald André Dupont's ''Whitechapel'' (1920). His final appearance was in the comedy '' The Grand Duke's Finances'' (1924). Selected filmography * '' The Canned Bride'' (1915) * '' Shoe Palace Pinkus'' (1916) * '' The Queen's Secretary'' (1916) * '' Lehmann's Honeymoon'' (1916) * '' Europe, General Delivery'' (1918) * ''The Devil'' (1918) * '' Die Arche'' (1919) * '' The Duty to Live'' (1919) * '' The Yellow Death'' (1920) * '' The White Peacock'' (1920) * '' The Red Peacock'' (1921) * ''Man Overboard'' (1921) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billionaire
A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American business magazine ''Forbes'' produces a global list of known U.S. dollar billionaires every year and updates an Internet version of this list in real time. The American oil magnate John D. Rockefeller became the world's first confirmed U.S. dollar billionaire in 1916. As of 2018, there are over 2,200 U.S. dollar billionaires worldwide, with a combined wealth of over US$ 9.1 trillion, up from in 2017. According to a 2017 Oxfam report, the top eight richest billionaires own as much combined wealth as "half the human race". As of 2021, eight people have reached the status of USD hectobillionaires, meaning that each has had a net worth of at least $100 billion. Current U.S. dollar billionaires According to the ''UBS/PwC Billionaires Report ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Working Class
The working class (or labouring class) comprises those engaged in manual-labour occupations or industrial work, who are remunerated via waged or salaried contracts. Working-class occupations (see also " Designation of workers by collar colour") include blue-collar jobs, and most pink-collar jobs. Members of the working class rely exclusively upon earnings from wage labour; thus, according to more inclusive definitions, the category can include almost all of the working population of industrialized economies, as well as those employed in the urban areas (cities, towns, villages) of non-industrialized economies or in the rural workforce. Definitions As with many terms describing social class, ''working class'' is defined and used in many different ways. The most general definition, used by many socialists, is that the working class includes all those who have nothing to sell but their labour. These people used to be referred to as the proletariat, but that term has gone out of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camden House Publishing
Camden House, Inc. was founded in 1979 by professors James Hardin and Gunther Holst with the purpose of publishing scholarly books in the field of German literature, Austrian Literature, and German language culture. Camden House books were published in Columbia, SC until 1998. When the company became an imprint in that year, place of publication moved to Rochester, NY. Early publication history The series ''Studies in German Literature, Language, and Culture'' was established in that same year and continues to the present; over 350 books in this series have appeared as of 2011 The Camden House areas of interest expanded over the following years under the direction of James Hardin, emeritus professor at the University of South Carolina. German language literature in Austria and Switzerland were added to the purview of Camden House early in its history. The new series ''Literary Criticism in Perspective'' was established in the following decade, and in time broadened to include Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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