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They Were So Young
''They Were So Young'' (german: link=no, Mannequins für Rio) is a 1954 German-American drama film directed by Kurt Neumann (director), Kurt Neumann and written by Felix Lützkendorf, Kurt Neumann and the Hollywood blacklist, blacklisted screenwriters Dalton Trumbo and Michael Wilson (writer), Michael Wilson (both uncredited). The film stars Scott Brady, Raymond Burr and Johanna Matz and was released on January 7, 1955 by Lippert Pictures. It was shot at the Bendestorf Studios near Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Sohnle. Plot Cast *Scott Brady as Richard Lanning *Raymond Burr as Jaime Coltos *Johanna Matz as Eve Ullmann ;Uncredited (in order of appearance) *Ingrid Stenn as Connie Brewers *Gisela Fackeldey as Mme. Lansowa *Kurt Meisel as Pasquale *Katharina Mayberg as Felicia *Eduard Linkers as M. Albert *Gordon Howard as Garza *Elizabeth Tanney as Emily *Erica Beer as Elise LeFevre *Hanita Hallan as Lena *Hannelore Axman as Vincenta * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Neumann (director)
Kurt Neumann (5 April 1908 – 21 August 1958) was a German Hollywood film director who specialized in science fiction movies in his later career. Biography Born in Nuremberg, the son of a manufacturer of tin stamps studied music in several German cities, including Berlin. In 1926 he directed his first short movie. Neumann came to the U.S. in the early talkie era, hired to direct German language versions of Hollywood films. Once he mastered English and established himself as technically proficient in filmmaking, Neumann directed such low-budget programmers as ''The Big Cage'' (1932), ''Secret of the Blue Room'' (1933) with Paul Lukas and Gloria Stuart, ''Hold 'Em Navy'' (1936), '' It Happened in New Orleans'' (1936) with child star Bobby Breen, ''Wide Open Faces'' (1937) with Joe E. Brown, '' Island of Lost Men'' and ''Ellery Queen: Master Detective'' in 1939. Neumann was signed by producer Hal Roach in 1941 to direct a series of " streamliners", 45-minute features designed ... [...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 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 communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style(s) to use, and when to use 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 collective imagination while resolving conflicting agendas and inconsistencies be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 Crime Drama Films
Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 member radio stations. * January 21 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 Films
Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 member radio stations. * January 21 – The first nuclear-powered submari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caterina Valente
Caterina Valente (born 14 January 1931) is a French multilingual singer, guitarist, and dancer of Italian ethnicity. Valente is a polyglot; she speaks six languages, and sings in eleven. While she is best known as a performer in Europe, Valente spent part of her career in the United States, where she performed alongside Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Perry Como, and Ella Fitzgerald, among others. Career In 1955, she was featured on '' The Colgate Comedy Hour'' with Gordon MacRae. In 1958, she filmed the musical comedy '' Hier bin ich – hier bleib ich'' (''Here I Am, Here I Stay'') which featured a guest appearance by Bill Haley & His Comets. During Haley's segment, Valente sang a duet with Haley on a newly recorded version of his song "Vive la Rock and Roll". Her brother - Italian Musician, Singer and film actor Silvio Francesco (1927-2000) - performed with her, sang many duets, danced, and played the clarinet in the shadow of his famous sister. In the mid-1960s, Valente worke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gert Fröbe
Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe (; 25 February 1913 – 5 September 1988) was a German actor. He was best known in English-speaking countries for his work as Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film '' Goldfinger'', as Peachum in ''The Threepenny Opera'', as Baron Bomburst in ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'', as Hotzenplotz in '' Der Räuber Hotzenplotz'', General Dietrich von Choltitz in '' Is Paris Burning?'' and Colonel Manfred von Holstein in '' Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines''. Early life and education Fröbe was born in Oberplanitz, today part of Zwickau. He was initially a violinist, but he abandoned it for Kabarett and theatre work. He joined the Nazi Party in 1929 at the age of 16 and left in 1937. In September 1944, theatres in Germany were closed down and Fröbe was drafted into the German Army, where he served until the end of the war. After his party membership became known after World War II, Israel banned Fröbe's films until Mario Blumenau, a Jewish s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Dahmen
Josef Dahmen (21 August 1903 – 18 January 1985) was a German stage, film and television actor.Youngkin p. 462. Dahmen was married to the actress Gisela von Collande, with whom he had a daughter Andrea Dahmen. His granddaughter Julia Dahmen is also an actress. Dahmen had a vague resemblance to Hungarian actor Peter Lorre. Selected filmography * '' Wibbel the Tailor'' (1931) - Sohn des Wirts * '' M'' (1931) - (uncredited) * ''A Tremendously Rich Man'' (1932) * ''The Hymn of Leuthen'' (1933) - Georg - Soldier * ''The Lake Calls'' (1933) - Besatzung der 'Carola' * ''Typhoon'' (1933) - Werkdetektiv * '' The Testament of Dr. Mabuse'' (1933) * ''Refugees'' (1933) - Man with red hair * ' (1934) - Müller, Chauffeur bei Sonnekamp * ''Pappi'' (1934) - Fred * '' Heinz in the Moon'' (1934) * ''Between Two Hearts'' (1934) * ''Decoy'' (1934) - Bandit * ''La Paloma. Ein Lied der Kameradschaft'' (1934) * ''Love, Death and the Devil'' (1934) - Macco * ''Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne!'' (1935) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Trenk-Trebitsch
Willy Trenk-Trebitsch (March 11, 1902 – September 21, 1983) was an Austrian actor. He was born in Vienna. He was especially famous for his performances as Mack the Knife in ''The Threepenny Opera''; he also had a film career. He died in Berlin, aged 81. Partial filmography * ''Panic in Chicago'' (1931) - Kriminalbeamter Charles * '' The Other Side'' (1931) - Koch * ''Einer Frau muß man alles verzeih'n'' (1931) - Fritz Meyer, Konfektionsreisender * ''Her Majesty, Love'' (1931) - Minor Role (uncredited) * ''Rasputin, Demon with Women'' (1932) - Ossipowitsch, Rasputins Sekretär * '' The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler'' (1943) - Col. Von Zechwitz * ''Hitchhike to Happiness'' (1945) - Ladislaus Prenska * ''Inside Job'' (1946) - Cordet * ''The Searching Wind'' (1946) - Ponette * ''White Tie and Tails'' (1946) - Emil * '' I'll Be Yours'' (1947) - Captain * '' The Guilt of Janet Ames'' (1947) - Headwaiter (uncredited) * '' The Corpse Came C.O.D.'' (1947) - Fields * ''The Exile'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erica Beer
Erica Beer (19 January 1925 – 27 December 2013) was a German film actress. She was born in Munich. Selected filmography * ''Captive Soul'' (1952) * ''The Last Waltz'' (1953) * ''Heartbroken on the Moselle'' (1953) * ''They Were So Young'' (1954) - Elise LeFevre * '' Die goldene Pest'' (1954) * ' (1955) - Viola * '' Winter in the Woods'' (1956) - Simone * ''Black Forest Melody'' (1956) - Harriet Morton * ' (1956) - Lia Serrana, Schauspielerin * ''My Father, the Actor'' (1956) - Olympia Renée * ' (1957) - Barbara * ''Kindermädchen für Papa gesucht'' (1957) - Monika Bärwald * ''And Lead Us Not Into Temptation'' (1957) - Sekretärin * ''My Ninety Nine Brides'' (1958) - Regina Hale * ' (1959) * '' Crime After School'' (1959) - Erna Kallies * ''Arzt aus Leidenschaft'' (1959) - Margot, eine Barfrau * '' Arzt ohne Gewissen'' (1959) - Sabine * ''Abschied von den Wolken'' (1959) - Cecily Sims * ''That's No Way to Land a Man'' (1959) - Vera Reinhardt * '' The Crimson Circle'' (1960 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Linkers
Eduard Linkers (11 October 1912 – 3 April 2004) was an Austrian actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1936 and 1988. Life He was born as Eduard Linker to a family of Jewish descent in Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary. He studied acting in Vienna, where he also started his acting career. After Anschluss he escaped to Czechoslovakia. He made his living by teaching English. That's how he met a Czech director František Čáp, who cast him in his movie ''Men Without Wings'' (1946). In 1952 he moved to Germany, where he acted in American productions. He spoke Romanian, German, English, Czech, French and Italian. Selected filmography * ''Catherine the Last'' (1936) - Steinschneider, Braun's secretary * ''Peter im Schnee'' (1937) - Theobald Flambach * ''Men Without Wings'' (1946) - Ullmann * ''Nadlidé'' (1946) * ''Uloupená hranice'' (1947) - Czapan * ''Nikdo nic neví'' (1947) - SS-man Fritz Heinecke * '' Krakatit'' (1948) - Carson * '' Getting on in the World'' (1948) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharina Mayberg
Katharina Mayberg (1925–2007) was a German film and television actress. Partial filmography * ''Gaspary's Sons'' (1948) * ''The Murder Trial of Doctor Jordan'' (1949) * '' The Marriage of Figaro'' (1949) - Barbarina * ''Theodore the Goalkeeper'' (1950) - Carola * '' Immortal Light'' (1951) - Perrins Tochter * '' The Blue Star of the South'' (1951) - Nelitze * '' Behind Monastery Walls'' (1952) - Kathrin * ''Marriage for One Night'' (1953) - Anita * ''Arena of Death'' (1953) - Manuela Moreno * '' The Country Schoolmaster'' (1954) - Martha Detleffsen * ''The Sweetest Fruits'' (1954) - Juanita * ''Rose-Girl Resli'' (1954) - Christine Rohrbach * ''The Beautiful Miller'' (1954) - Kat Dramberger * ''They Were So Young'' (1954) - Felicia * ''The Inn on the Lahn'' (1955) - Josefine, Kellnerin * ''Klisura'' (1956) - Ajka * ''The First Day of Spring'' (1956) - Bettina Morelli * ''The Battalion in the Shadows'' (1957) - Carmen * ''Mazurka der Liebe'' (1957) - Bronislawa * ''The Dragon's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Meisel
Kurt Meisel (18 August 1912 – 4 April 1994) was an Austrian actor and film director. He appeared in 65 films between 1934 and 1994. He also directed 21 films between 1949 and 1984. Meisel was married to the actress Ursula Lingen. He was born and died in Vienna, Austria, and is buried on the Vienna Zentralfriedhof. Selected filmography * ''Little Dorrit (1934 film), Little Dorrit'' (1934) - Pit, sein Sohn * ''Marriage Strike (1935 film), Marriage Strike'' (1935) - Loisl * ''Schlußakkord'' (1936) - Baron Salviany * ''The Court Concert'' (1936) - Leutnant Florian Schwälble * ''The Divine Jetta'' (1937) - Graf Eugen Opalla * ''Such Great Foolishness'' (1937) - Specht - Rundfunkansager * ''Love Can Lie'' (1937) - August Halfgreen * ''Spiel auf der Tenne'' (1937) - Andreas 'Anderl' Rössmaier * ''Another World (1937 film), Another World'' (1937) - 2. Journalist * ''Der Schimmelkrieg in der Holledau'' (1937) - Thomas, Bräubursch * ''Frau Sylvelin'' (1938) - Herr von Roedern * ''Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
