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The First Day Of Spring
''The First Day of Spring'' (german: Der erste Frühlingstag) is a 1956 West German comedy film directed by Helmut Weiss and starring Luise Ullrich, Paul Dahlke and Ingeborg Schöner.Parish p.505 It was based on the 1935 play ''Call It a Day'' by the British writer Dodie Smith. It was made at the Spandau Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Mathias Matthies and Ellen Schmidt. Cast * Luise Ullrich as Dolly * Paul Dahlke as Robert Hiller * Ingeborg Schöner as Vera * Matthias Fuchs as Martin * Angelika Meissner as Lilo * Fita Benkhoff as Käthe * Robert Freitag as Bruno * Gustav Fröhlich as Paul Frank * Heli Finkenzeller as Edith * Brigitte Grothum as Trixi * Blandine Ebinger as Elsi * Carla Hagen as Fanny * Lori Leux as Oma * Katharina Mayberg as Bettina Morelli * Kurt Roy as Albert * Lou Seitz as Martha * Horst Willer as Fred See also * ''Call It a Day ''Call It a Day'' is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Archie Mayo and starr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Weiss
Helmut Weiss (January 25, 1907 – January 13, 1969) was a German actor, screenwriter, and film director. He was notable for directing '' Tell the Truth'' the first film produced in what was to become the future West Germany after the Second World War. It was made in Hamburg in the British Zone of Occupation. Much of the film had already been made at the UFA studios in Berlin shortly before the arrival of the Red Army, but Weiss dramatically re-shot it. The film was significant in its use of outdoor locations in common with other post-war rubble films. Selected filmography Actor * '' Trouble Backstairs'' (1935) * ''Scandal at the Fledermaus'' (1936) * ''Family Parade'' (1936) * '' Nanon'' (1938) * ''Kitty and the World Conference'' (1939) * ''The Leghorn Hat'' (1939) * ''The Girl from Fano'' (1941) * ''The Gasman'' (1941) * ''Rembrandt'' (1942) * '' Love and Trumpets'' (1954) * ''Oasis'' (1955) * ''Fanny Hill'' (1964) Screenwriter * ''I Entrust My Wife to You'' (1943) * ''Hello, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spandau Studios
The Spandau Studios or CCC Studios were film and television studios located in Spandau, a suburb of Berlin. They were established in 1949 following the Second World War by the producer Artur Brauner Artur "Atze" Brauner (born Abraham Brauner; 1 August 1918 – 7 July 2019) was a German film producer and entrepreneur of Polish origin. He produced more than 300 films from 1946. Life and career He was born the oldest son of a Jewish family ... controller of CCC Films, on the site of a former factory.Bergfelder p.106 Following the Occupation of Germany, Soviet occupation of East Germany, most of the major film studios in the capital had fallen into the East Berlin with the exception of the Tempelhof Studios until Brauner opened his own studios. Brauner produced a number of popular genre films over the following decades, including several remakes of Weimar era hits. Space was also rented out to other firms, and the 1960s saw the series of Edgar Wallace films made at Spandau by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carla Hagen
Carla Hagen (11 September 1927 – 27 January 2020) was a German film and television actress. Hagen died in Hamburg on 27 January 2020, at the age of 92. Selected filmography * ''Professor Nachtfalter'' (1951) * ''The Happy Village'' (1955) * ''Yes, Yes, Love in Tyrol'' (1955) * ''The Double Husband'' (1955) * ''The First Day of Spring'' (1956) * '' If We All Were Angels'' (1956) * ''Black Forest Melody'' (1956) * '' Lemke's Widow'' (1957) * '' Two Hearts in May'' (1958) * ''Love, Girls and Soldiers'' (1958) * ''Girl from Hong Kong ''Girl from Hong Kong'' (german: Bis zum Ende aller Tage) is a 1961 West German romance film directed by Franz Peter Wirth and starring Hanns Lothar, Helmut Griem and Akiko Wakabayashi.Schrader & Winkler p. 175 The film's sets were designed by th ...'' (1961) References Bibliography * Klossner, Michael. ''The Europe of 1500-1815 on Film and Television: A Worldwide Filmography of Over 2550 Works, 1895 Through 2000''. McFarland, 2002. External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blandine Ebinger
Blandine Ebinger (born Blandine Loeser) (4 November 1899, in Berlin – 25 December 1993, in Berlin) was a German actress and ''chansonniere''. Career Ebinger became acquainted with Friedrich Hollaender in 1919, and with him she became heavily invested as a performer, writer, and composer in the Berlin cabaret scene in the 1920s, beginning in the cabaret and the Café des Westens. She recorded many of her husband's, Friedrich Hollaender, cabaret songs, including the set of songs entitled '. Ebinger emigrated to the United States in 1937, returning to Berlin in 1947. She moved to Munich, where she met her second husband, the publisher Helwig Hassepflug, in 1961. They eventually settled back in Berlin, where she continued her career in the theater and as an actress on television productions. Family Ebinger was the daughter of the pianist Gustav Loeser and the actress Margarete Wezel. She married Friedrich Hollaender. Although Ebinger and Hollaender ended their marriage bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigitte Grothum
Brigitte Grothum (born 26 February 1935) is a German film actress. She has appeared in 50 films since 1955. She was born in Dessau, Germany. Selected filmography *'' Ripening Youth'' (1955), as Dora *''The First Day of Spring'' (1956), as Trixi *''Das Mädchen Marion'' (1956), as Marion von Hoff *''The Last Ones Shall Be First'' (1957), as Irene Darrandt *'' Lemke's Widow'' (1957), as Lore * ''Two Times Adam, One Time Eve'' (1959), as Silja *''The Miracle of Father Malachia'' (1961), as Gussy *''The Strange Countess'' (1961), as Margaret Reedle *'' Her Most Beautiful Day'' (1962), as Inge *'' Der rote Rausch'' (1962), as Katrin * ''The Happy Years of the Thorwalds'' (1962) as Helga Thorwald *''The Inn on the River'' (1962), as Leila Smith *'' The Curse of the Yellow Snake'' (1963), as Joan Bray *' (1968, TV miniseries), as Jane Conway *''Einer spinnt immer'' (1971), as Liane *''Grete Minde'' (1977), as Emerentz Zernitz *''Drei Damen vom Grill'' (1977–1992, TV series, 140 epis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heli Finkenzeller
Heli Finkenzeller (17 November 1914Friedemann, Beyer (1992)''Die Gesichter der UFA: Starportraits einer Epoche'' München: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag. Page 46. . – 14 January 1991) was a German actress. She appeared in more than 80 films and television shows between 1935 and 1991. Filmography * '' Marriage Strike'' (1935) * ''The Higher Command'' (1935) * '' The Royal Waltz'' (1935) * '' Weiberregiment'' (1936) * ''Boccaccio'' (1936) * ''Dangerous Crossing'' (1937) * '' The Model Husband'' (1937) * '' Der Schimmelkrieg in der Holledau'' (1937) * '' Spiel auf der Tenne'' (1937) * ''My Son the Minister'' (1937) * '' Wie der Hase läuft'' (1937) * '' Konzert in Tirol'' (1938) * '' Diskretion - Ehrensache'' (1938) * '' Scheidungsreise'' (1938) * '' Eine kleine Nachtmusik'' (1939) * '' Opera Ball'' (1939) * '' Hochzeitsnacht'' (1941) * '' Der siebente Junge'' (1941) * '' Ehe man Ehemann wird'' (1941) * '' Alarmstufe V'' (1941) * ''Front Theatre'' (1942) * '' Kohlhiesel's Daughters'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Fröhlich
Gustav Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film ''Metropolis''. He remained a popular film star in Germany until the 1950s. Biography Early life and Weimar Republic Gustav Fröhlich was born an illegitimate child in Hanover and was raised by foster parents. Before becoming an actor, he worked for a short time as an editor of a provincial newspaper and as the author of popular novels. During World War I, he also volunteered for duty in occupied Brussels as a press supervisor. Gustav Fröhlich began his stage career in the early 1920s at minor theatres in Germany. He quickly achieved more important roles and appeared as '' The Prince of Homburg'' at the Deutsche Theater under the direction of Max Reinhardt. One of Fröhlich's first film roles was composer Franz Liszt in ''Paganini'' in 1922 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Freitag
Robert Peter Freytag (7 April 1916 in Vienna – 8 July 2010 in Munich), known professionally as Robert Freitag, was an Austrian-Swiss stage and screen actor and film director. Life Freitag was the son of the Swiss opera singer Otto Freitag (Otto Freytag). He was trained as an actor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. During the Nazi era, he went to Switzerland, where he was active as an actor at the Schauspielhaus Zürich (Zürich playhouse). In 1945, he married the German actress Maria Becker, who had studied acting in Vienna and who since had been at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, which had benefitted from the presence of German émigrés during the Second World War. Becker became a Swiss citizen by marrying Freitag. In 1949, Freitag began participating in the Salzburg Festival. Later he performed, among other places, at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus and the Hamburger Kammerspiele, both in Hamburg. With his wife Maria Becker and the German stage actor Will Quadflieg, he foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fita Benkhoff
Fita Benkhoff (1 November 1901 – 26 October 1967) was a German actress. Life Benkhoff was born in 1901. In the 1920s the actress Louise Dumont separated from her husband. Dumont was attached to a number of young actresses including Benkhoff, Hanni Hoessrich and Luise Rainer. It has been presumed that Dumont was bisexual.omedy_[film_directed_by_Arthur_Maria_Rabenalt_and_starring_Ellen_Schwa_...''_(1948) *_''The_Time_with_You">ilm_directed_by_Arthur_Maria_Rabenalt">ilm.html"_;"title="omedy_[film">omedy_[film_directed_by_Arthur_Maria_Rabenalt_and_starring_Ellen_Schwa_...''_(1948) *_''The_Time_with_You''_(1948) *_''Trouble_Backstairs_(1949_film).html" ;"title="The_Time_with_You.html" ;"title="ilm directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt">ilm.html" ;"title="omedy omedy_[film_directed_by_Arthur_Maria_Rabenalt_and_starring_Ellen_Schwa_...''_(1948) *_''The_Time_with_You">ilm_directed_by_Arthur_Maria_Rabenalt">ilm.html"_;"title="omedy_[film">omedy_[film_directed_by_Arthur_Maria_Rabenalt_an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Meissner
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Angelika may refer to: * Angelika (given name) * Angelika Film Center, theater chain See also * Pieris angelika, butterfly * Angelica (other) * Angelique (other) Angelique or Angélique may refer to: * Angélique (given name), a French feminine name Arts and entertainment Music * Angélique (instrument), a string instrument of the lute family * ''Angélique'', a 1927 opéra bouffe by Jacques Ibert * A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Fuchs
Matthias Fuchs (1939–2001) was a German stage, film and television actor.Langford p.246 Partial filmography * ''The Immenhof Girls'' (1955) - Ethelbert * ''The First Day of Spring'' (1956) - Martin * ''Hochzeit auf Immenhof'' (1956) - Ethelbert * ''Der Meineidbauer'' (1956) - der junge Franz Ferner (uncredited) * ''Ferien auf Immenhof'' (1957) - Ethelbert * ''U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien'' (1958) - Jörg * ''The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp'' (1959) - Klaas Henning * ''Two Times Adam, One Time Eve'' (1959) - Peter * '' The Buddenbrooks'' (1959) - Leutnant von Trotha * '' Beloved Augustin'' (1960) - Augustin Sumser * ' (1960) - Horst * ''Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt'' (1962) - Berndt * ' (1962) - Ein Hotelboy * ''The Cardinal'' (1963) - Father Neidermoser * ''The Last Days of Gomorrah'' (1974, TV film) - Kalle * ''Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven'' (1975) - Knab * ''Death is My Trade'' (1977) - Sturmbannführer Kellner * ''Lola'' (1981) - Esslin * ''A Woman in Flames'' (1983) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Schmidt
Ellen Schmidt (1922–1997) was a German art director active in film set design in the postwar era.Bergfelder p.254 She frequently collaborated with her husband Mathias Matthies, including on several Edgar Wallace adaptations. Selected filmography * '' Dark Eyes'' (1951) * ''The Sinful Border'' (1951) * '' Shooting Stars'' (1952) * ''My Wife Is Being Stupid'' (1952) * '' Don't Worry About Your Mother-in-Law'' (1954) * ''Men at a Dangerous Age'' (1954) * ''I Was an Ugly Girl'' (1955) * ''The First Day of Spring'' (1956) * '' The Girl from the Marsh Croft'' (1958) * '' Crime After School'' (1959) * '' Yes, Women are Dangerous'' (1960) * ''The Forger of London'' (1961) * '' The Green Archer'' (1961) * ''The Inn on the River'' (1962) * ''The Happy Years of the Thorwalds ''The Happy Years of the Thorwalds'' (German: ''Die glücklichen Jahre der Thorwalds'') is a 1962 West German drama film directed by Wolfgang Staudte and , starring Elisabeth Bergner, Hansjörg Felmy and Dietmar Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
