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The Singing House
''The Singing House'' (German: ''Das singende Haus'') is a 1948 Austrian comedy film directed by Franz Antel and starring Richard Romanowsky, Hannelore Schroth and Hans Moser.Fritsche p.232 It was first shown at the Locarno Film Festival in July 1947, before going on general release in Austria in early 1948. The film's sets were designed by the art director Julius von Borsody. It was shot at the Rosenhügel Studios in Vienna, which was controlled by the Soviet occupation forces. It was distributed by the East Berlin-based Sovexport. Cast * Richard Romanowsky as Professor Cattori * Hannelore Schroth as Melanie, seine Tochter * Hans Moser as Franz Huber, Greißler * Herta Mayen as Gretl, seine Tochter * Walter Müller as Freddy * Curd Jürgens as Bandleader Hans Storch * Paul Kemp as Karli Weidner * Teddy Kern as Stepanek * Peter Wehle as Peter * Karl Skraup as Attila Meisel * Theodor Danegger as Direktor Hofer * Susi Nicoletti as Fritzi, seine Sekretärin * Dorot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Antel
Franz Antel (28 June 1913 – 11 August 2007) was a veteran Austrian filmmaker. Born in Vienna, Antel worked mainly as a film producer in the interwar years. After World War II, he began writing and directing films on a large scale. In the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s these were mainly comedies ( romantic, slapstick, and/or musical) and K.u.k. films' all of which, for Austrian and German TV stations alike, have been a staple of weekend afternoon programming ever since. In between there is quite a sober film about the Oberst (Colonel) Redl affair that shook the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy on the eve of World War I. Antel himself later commented on this period, "I always wanted to provide good entertainment for the people at the cinema. After the screening, people should say: Well now, I am in a good mood, I will go out and have a glass of wine." (German original: "Ich wollte die Leute im Kino immer gut unterhalten. Die Besucher sollten nach der Filmvorführung sagen: So, jetzt b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Occupation Of Austria
The Allied occupation of Austria started on 8 May 1945 with the fall of Nazi Germany and ended with the Austrian State Treaty on 27 July 1955. After the in 1938, Austria had generally been recognized as part of Nazi Germany. In 1943, however, the Allies agreed in the Declaration of Moscow that Austria would instead be regarded as the first victim of Nazi aggression, and treated as a liberated and independent country after the war. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Austria was divided into four zones and jointly occupied by the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, the United States, and France. Vienna was similarly subdivided, but the central district was collectively administered by the Allied Control Council. Whereas Germany was divided into East and West Germany in 1949, Austria remained under joint occupation of the Western Allies and the Soviet Union until 1955; its status became a controversial subject in the Cold War until the warming of relations known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 Films
The year 1948 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1948 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * May 3 – The Supreme Court of the United States decide in ''United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.'' holding that the practice of block booking and ownership of theater chains by film studios constituted anti-competitive and monopolistic trade practices. * Laurence Olivier's ''Hamlet'' becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture. Awards Top ten money making stars Notable films released in 1948 United States unless stated # *''3 Godfathers'', starring John Wayne A *''Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein'', starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello *''Act of Violence'', starring Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh *''Adventures of Don Juan'', starring Errol Flynn *''Albuquerque'', starring Randolph Scott and Barbara Britton *''The Amazing Mr. X'', starring T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Wolff (director)
Hans Wolff (2 October 1911, Berlin – 1 June 1979) was a German film editor and director. Selected filmography Editor * '' Playing with Fire'' (1934) * '' The World's in Love'' (1935) * ''Mazurka'' (1935) * '' Court Theatre'' (1936) * ''Tomfoolery'' (1936) * '' Rendezvous in Wien'' (1936) * ''Capers'' (1937) * ''Serenade'' (1937) * ''Bel Ami'' (1939) * ''I Am Sebastian Ott'' (1939) * ''Operetta'' (1940) * ''Women Are No Angels'' (1943) * ''Viennese Girls'' (1945) Director * ''Der Hofrat Geiger'' (1947) * ''Shadows Over Naples'' (1951) * ''Captive Soul'' (1952) * ''I Can't Marry Them All'' (1952) * ''At the Well in Front of the Gate'' (1952) * ''It Was Always So Nice With You'' (1954) * '' The Three from the Filling Station'' (1955) * ''The Road to Paradise'' (1956) * ''August der Halbstarke'' (1957) * ' (1958) Producer * ''The Lightship'' (1963) Actor * ''The Singing House'' (1948) - Rotter, Manager * ''Großstadtnacht'' (1950) * ''At the Well in Front of the Gate ''At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothea Neff
Dorothea Neff (21 February 1903 – 27 July 1986) was a Vienna stage actress during the 1930s. Neff helped hide her Jewish friend Lilli Wolff, after she received resettlement orders from the Nazis to leave Vienna. To confuse the Gestapo, Neff wrote a suicide note and signed it 'Lilli' and left it in her apartment. Neff allowed Lilli to live with her for a short time and later Lilli moved in with Mati Driessen and Meta Schmidt. Driessen and Schmidt were honored in Yad Vashem in Israel as Righteous Among the Nations. She later moved from the stage to the cinema, acting up until her death in 1986. In 1979, Dorothea Neff was awarded to the list of Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in recognition of the risk to her own life, in hiding a Jew during the Holocaust. Since 1967 to her death, Neff was blind, but still worked as an actress. Selected filmography * ''The Singing House'' (1948) * ''Adventure in Vienna'' (1952) * ''I'm Marrying the Director'' (1960) References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susi Nicoletti
Susi Nicoletti (3 September 1918 – 5 June 2005) was a Bavarian-born actress best remembered today for over 100 supporting roles mostly in comedy films. She was born as Susanne Emilie Luise Adele Habersack in Munich, but spent most of her childhood with her parents in Amsterdam. Back in Munich, she made her stage debut at age 13. Two years later she became a ballerina. In the early 1930s she turned to cabaret. In 1939, she was offered her first film role. In 1940 she moved to Vienna, where she became a member of the Burgtheater. After her retirement in 1992 she continued her stage career at the Theater in der Josefstadt. For decades, Nicoletti taught acting and dance at the prestigious Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. Her husband, Ernst Haeussermann, was a theatre director. Death Nicoletti died in Vienna of complications after heart surgery, aged 86. Her son, daughter and grandchildren live in the United States. Selected filmography * '' A Mother's Love'' (1939) - Franzi P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodor Danegger
Theodor Danegger (31 August 1891 – 11 October 1959) was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1932 and 1959. He was born in Lienz, Austria and died in Vienna, Austria. Selected filmography * ''Without Witnesses'' (1919) * ''You Don't Forget Such a Girl'' (1932) * '' Voices of Spring'' (1933) * '' Marriage Strike'' (1935) * '' The Royal Waltz'' (1935) * ''Maria Ilona'' (1939) * '' A Hopeless Case'' (1939) * '' Three Fathers for Anna'' (1939) * ''Roses in Tyrol'' (1940) * ''Operetta'' (1940) * '' My Daughter Lives in Vienna'' (1940) * '' Love is Duty Free'' (1941) * ''Much Ado About Nixi'' (1942) * '' Whom the Gods Love'' (1942) * ''Music in Salzburg'' (1944) * ''The Singing House'' (1948) * '' Fregola'' (1948) * ''The Heavenly Waltz'' (1948) * ''The Murder Trial of Doctor Jordan'' (1949) * ''The Blue Straw Hat'' (1949) * ''Royal Children'' (1950) * '' Archduke Johann's Great Love'' (1950) * '' Kissing Is No Sin'' (1950) * ''My Friend the Thief'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Skraup
Karl Skraup (31 July 1898 – 2 October 1958) was an Austrian stage and film actor. From 1947 until his death in 1958 he worked at the Volkstheater in Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST .... Selected filmography References External links * 1898 births 1958 deaths Austrian male film actors {{Austria-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Wehle
Peter Wehle (9 May 1914 – 18 May 1986) was an Austrian actor, writer, composer and cabaret performer.Von Dassanowsky p.120 Selected filmography * ''The Singing House'' (198) * '' Dear Friend'' (1949) * ''Mikosch, the Pride of the Company ''Mikosch, the Pride of the Company'' (german: Mikosch, der Stolz der Kompanie) is a 1958 West German comedy film directed by Rudolf Schündler and starring Gunther Philipp, Walter Gross, and Kurt Großkurth. It was followed by a 1959 sequel ''M ...'' (1958) References Bibliography * Robert von Dassanowsky. ''Austrian Cinema: A History''. McFarland, 2005. External links * 1914 births 1986 deaths Austrian male film actors Austrian composers Male actors from Vienna 20th-century Austrian screenwriters 20th-century Austrian male writers {{Austria-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teddy Kern
Teddy Bill (18 November 1900 – 11 February 1949) was an Austrian actor. Later in his career he was also credited as Teddy Kern. Selected filmography * ''Princess Trulala'' (1926) - Lackei * ''Vienna - Berlin'' (1926) - Ein Heurigenfänger * '' The Boxer's Bride'' (1926) - Heinz Gordon * ''The Sea Cadet'' (1926) * ''Marie's Soldier'' (1927) * '' The Imaginary Baron'' (1927) - Hans v. Grabow * ''Durchlaucht Radieschen'' (1927) - Pueblo de Santa Galantos * ''The Eighteen Year Old'' (1927) - Paul Malot * '' Students' Love'' (1927) - Teddy * '' Das Fürstenkind'' (1927) - Trottulos * '' The Most Beautiful Legs of Berlin'' (1927) * ''Svengali'' (1927) - Maler Leard * '' Der König der Mittelstürmer'' (1927) - Mr. Jonas * '' Only a Viennese Woman Kisses Like That'' (1928) - Der Bäcker * ''Artists'' (1928) - Ralph, Milsons Freund * '' It Attracted Three Fellows'' (1928) * '' When the Guard Marches'' (1928) * '' Honeymoon'' (1928) * '' Love's Masquerade'' (1928) - Herr im Auto * '' T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Kemp (actor)
Paul Kemp (20 May 1896 – 13 August 1953) was a German stage and film actor. Kemp worked as a piano accompaniest for silent films, and then served as an ambulance driver on the Western Front during the First World War. Post-war he moved into acting on the stage in Düsseldorf and Hamburg. His career really took off when he moved to Berlin in 1929, appearing in the hit stage version of the novel ''Menschen im Hotel'' by Vicki Baum. He made his film debut in 1930, shortly after the introduction of sound film. He appeared prolifically in German and Austrian films until his death in 1953. Selected filmography * ''Cyanide'' (1930) - Kuckuck * ' (1930) - Aufnahmeleiter * '' The King of Paris'' (1930) * ''Rag Ball'' (1930) - Priem * ''The Great Longing'' (1930) - Regieassistent Mopp * ''Dolly Gets Ahead'' (1930) - Jack * ''The Blonde Nightingale'' (1930) - Hirschfield * ''The Threepenny Opera'' (1931) - Mackie Messers Platte * ''Seitensprünge'' (1931) - Anton Schiller * '' M'' (1931) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curd Jürgens
Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens (13 December 191518 June 1982) was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens. He was well known for playing Ernst Udet in ''Des Teufels General''. His English-language roles include ''James Bond'' villain Karl Stromberg in '' The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977), Éric Carradine in '' And God Created Woman'' (1956), and Professor Immanuel Rath in ''The Blue Angel'' (1959). Early life Jürgens was born on 13 December 1915 in the Munich borough of Solln, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire. His father, Kurt, was a trader from Hamburg, and his mother, Marie-Albertine, was a French teacher. He had two elder twin sisters, Jeanette and Marguerite. He began his working career as a journalist before becoming an actor at the urging of his actress wife, Louise Basler. He spent much of his early acting career on the stage in Vienna. Due to serious injuries that he sustained in a car accident in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
