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The Model From Montparnasse
''The Model from Montparnasse'' (german: Das Modell vom Montparnasse) or ''Adieu Mascotte'' is a 1929 German comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Lilian Harvey, Igo Sym and Marietta Millner.Prawer p. 89 Originally made as a silent film, it later had synchronized sound added. It is set in the Demimonde of Paris with a heroine working as an artist's model. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Heinz Fenchel and Jacek Rotmil. It was shot at the Babelsberg, Staaken and Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. Location shooting took place in Paris and Nice. Cast * Lilian Harvey as Mascotte * Igo Sym as Jean Dardier, author * Marietta Millner as Josette, his wife * Harry Halm as Gaston, her lover * Julius Falkenstein as Giron * Ernst Pröckl as Servant at the Gastons * Erika Dannhoff as A model * Oskar Sima as Servant at the Dardiers * Hubert von Meyerinck as Sleeper conductor * Albert Paulig * Eugen Thiele Eugen Thiele (1897–1938) was an Austrian film director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Thiele
Wilhelm Thiele (1890–1975) was an Austrian screenwriter and film director. He directed over 40 films between 1921 and 1960. Life and career Thiele started his show career as a stage actor. He got his start in Austrian and German film during the 1920s, most often as a director of film comedies. His biggest success was the highly influential musical film '' The Three from the Filling Station'' (1930), the highest-grossing film in Germany that year. Thiele, who was of Jewish descent,Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 211 left Germany during the Nazi Era. His first film in Hollywood, ''Lottery Lover'' in 1935, was without success and Thiele never achieved the same level of fame in Hollywood as he had Germany. He mostly made B-Pictures, but is credited with giving actress Dorothy Lamour her big start in movies with ''The Jungle Princess'' (1936). In the 1950s, he worked as a director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babelsberg Studios
Babelsberg Film Studio (german: Filmstudio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the second oldest large-scale film studio in the world only preceded by the Danish Nordisk Film (est. 1906), producing films since 1912. With a total area of about and a studio area of about it is Europe's largest film studio. Hundreds of films, including Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis'' and Josef von Sternberg's '' The Blue Angel'' were filmed there. More recent productions include ''V for Vendetta'', '' Captain America: Civil War'', '' Æon Flux'', ''The Bourne Ultimatum'', ''Valkyrie'', '' Inglourious Basterds'', '' Cloud Atlas'', '' The Grand Budapest Hotel'', '' The Hunger Games'', ''Isle of Dogs'' and '' The Matrix Resurrections''. Today, Studio Babelsberg remains operational mainly for feature film productions. It also acts as producer on German productions and co-producer on international high-budget productions. Since January 2022 it has been owned by TPG Real ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Paulig
Albert Paulig (14 January 1873 – 19 March 1933) was a German film actor who was popular during the silent era. Paulig made his first film in 1914. The following year he appeared in one of Ernst Lubitsch's first directorial attempts, '' A Trip on the Ice'' (1915). Paulig was in a number of Harry Piel, thrillers including '' The Man Without Nerves'' (1924).Grange p. 184 Selected filmography * '' The Firm Gets Married'' (1914) * ''The Platonic Marriage'' (1919) * ''The Maharaja's Favourite Wife'' (1921) * ''Love at the Wheel'' (1921) * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * ''The Bull of Olivera'' (1921) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1921) *'' The Lost House'' (1922) * ''The Flight into Marriage'' (1922) * ''Only One Night'' (1922) * ''Miss Rockefeller Is Filming'' (1922) * ''Rivals'' (1923) * ''The Weather Station'' (1923) * '' Man Against Man'' (1924) * '' The Man Without Nerves'' (1924) * ''The Brigantine of New York'' (1924) * '' The Creature'' (1924) * ''Zigano'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Von Meyerinck
Hubert "Hubsi" von Meyerinck (23 August 1896 – 13 May 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 280 films between 1921 and 1970. Biography Meyerinck was born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, the son of Friedrich von Meyerinck (1858–1928), Hauptmann (Captain) in the Prussian Army. He grew up at his family's estates in the Province of Posen and attended the gymnasium secondary school in Godeberg. Having passed his Abitur exams, he was called up for military service as a cadet in World War I, but soon was dismissed due to a pulmonary disease. In 1917 he gave his debut as a theatre actor at the Schauspielhaus in Berlin and from 1918 to 1920 continued his career at the Hamburg Kammerspiele. Back in Berlin he performed in avant-garde plays by Carl Sternheim, as well as in several revue entertainments and kabarett venues. Later he returned to classical theatre with engagements at the Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater, performing as ''The Imaginary Invalid'', ' ... [...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] |
Erika Dannhoff
Erika Dannhoff (2 December 1909 – 18 June 1996) was a German actress. She played the female lead in the 1935 mountain film ''Demon of the Himalayas''. Selected filmography * '' The Model from Montparnasse'' (1929) * ''The Man with the Frog'' (1929) * '' Marriage in Name Only'' (1930) * ''Mountains on Fire'' (1931) * '' Tannenberg'' (1932) * ''Sacred Waters'' (1932) * '' The Rebel'' (1932) * ''Demon of the Himalayas'' (1935) * '' Liebesträume'' (1935) * ''The Cabbie's Song'' (1936) * '' Waldrausch'' (1939) * '' No Way Back'' (1953) * ''The Story of Anastasia ''The Story of Anastasia'' and in the UK, ''Is Anna Anderson Anastasia?'' (German: ''Anastasia, die letzte Zarentochter''), is a German film directed by Falk Harnack. The 1956 film is based on the true story of Anna Anderson, who was pulled from ...'' (1956) * '' Barbara'' (1961) Bibliography * Holt, Lee Wallace. ''Mountains, Mountaineering and Modernity: A Cultural History of German and Austrian Mountaineering, 1900-19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Pröckl
Ernst Johann Pröckl (21 June 1888 – 26 November 1957) was an Austrian stage actor and director.Hardt p.219 He also appeared in numerous films, mainly German. Selected filmography * ''The Peruvian'' (1919) * '' Judith Trachtenberg'' (1920) * ''Christian Wahnschaffe'' (1920) * '' The Last Hour'' (1921) * '' The Story of a Maid'' (1921) * ''Bigamy'' (1922) * ''Youth'' (1922) * '' Vineta, the Sunken City'' (1923) * '' Princess Suwarin'' (1923) * ''The Treasure of Gesine Jacobsen'' (1923) * '' The Beautiful Girl'' (1923) * '' Leap Into Life'' (1924) * ''I Love You'' (1925) * '' The Proud Silence'' (1925) * '' People of the Sea'' (1925) * ''The Sweet Girl'' (1926) * ''I Stand in the Dark Midnight'' (1927) * ''The Schorrsiegel Affair'' (1928) * '' Fair Game'' (1928) * '' The Model from Montparnasse'' (1929) * '' Marriage in Name Only'' (1930) * '' The Stolen Face'' (1930) * '' Moritz Makes His Fortune'' (1931) * '' The Battle of Bademunde'' (1931) * '' That's All That Matters'' (1931) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Falkenstein
Julius Falkenstein (25 February 1879 – 9 December 1933) was a German stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1914 and 1933. Falkenstein was Jewish, but secured a special permit to continue making films following the Nazi rise to power in 1933. He died of natural causes the same year, having made only one further film. Selected filmography * ''Die geheimnisvolle Villa'' (1914) * ''The Princess of Neutralia'' (1917) *'' The Toboggan Cavalier'' (1918) * '' The Oyster Princess'' (1919) * '' The Dancer Barberina'' (1920) * ''The Love of a Thief'' (1920) * ''The Princess of the Nile'' (1920) * ''Romeo and Juliet in the Snow'' (1920) * '' The Haunted Castle'' (1921) * ''The Story of Christine von Herre'' (1921) * ''The Convict of Cayenne'' (1921) * '' Lola Montez, the King's Dancer'' (1922) * ''Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'' (1922) * ''His Excellency from Madagascar'' (1922) * ''Don Juan'' (1922) * ''Das Milliardensouper'' (1923) * '' Earth Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Halm
Harry Halm (born Harry Hermann Hahn; 17 January 1901 – 22 November 1980) was a German film actor. He was the son of director Alfred Halm and took acting lessons with Eduard von Winterstein and Hermann Vallentin. He began his stage career in 1919 at the Schauspielhaus in Potsdam. Selected filmography * ''Friend Ripp'' (1923) * '' The Evangelist'' (1924) * ''Chamber Music'' (1925) * ''Strong Winds'' (1924) * ''The Humble Man and the Chanteuse'' (1925) * '' Love and Trumpets'' (1925) * ''Three Waiting Maids'' (1925) * ''The Untouched Woman'' (1925) * '' The Fire Dancer'' (1925) * '' If Only It Weren't Love'' (1925) * '' Old Mamsell's Secret'' (1925) * ''Princess Trulala'' (1926) * ''Only a Dancing Girl'' (1926) * '' A Sister of Six'' (1926) * '' I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg'' (1926) * ''Die Königin des Varietés'' (1927) * ''Fabulous Lola'' (1927) * ''How Do I Marry the Boss?'' (1927) * ''My Heidelberg, I Can Not Forget You'' (1927) * '' Vacation from Marriage'' (1927) * ''The S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nice
Nice ( , ; Niçard dialect, Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department in France. The Nice urban unit, agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly 1 millionDemographia: World Urban Areas , Demographia.com, April 2016 on an area of . Located on the French Riviera, the southeastern coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of the French Alps, Nice is the second-largest French city on the Mediterranean coast and second-largest city in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region after Marseille. Nice is approximately from the principality of Monaco and from the Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, Fashion capital, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called Caput Mundi#Paris, the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Location Shooting
Location shooting is the shooting of a film or television production in a real-world setting rather than a sound stage or backlot. The location may be interior or exterior. The filming location may be the same in which the story is set (for example, scenes in the film '' The Interpreter'' were set and shot inside the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan), or it may stand in for a different locale (the films '' Amadeus'' and '' The Illusionist'' were primarily set in Vienna, but were filmed in Prague). Most films feature a combination of location and studio shoots; often, interior scenes will be shot on a soundstage while exterior scenes will be shot on location. Second unit photography is not generally considered a location shoot. Before filming, the locations are generally surveyed in pre-production, a process known as location scouting and recce. Pros and cons Location shooting has several advantages over filming on a studio set. First and foremost, the expense can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
