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The Secret Of Santa Maria
''The Secret of Santa Maria'' (German:''Das Geheimnis der Santa Maria'') is a 1921 German silent film directed by Lothar Mendes.Bock & Bergfelder p.319 The film's sets were designed by the art director Julian Ballenstedt. Cast In alphabetical order * Michael Bohnen * Louis Brody * Karl Etlinger * Maria Forescu * Rudolf Forster * Käthe Haack * Eugen Jensen * Georg John * Robert Leffler * Olga Limburg * Edith Meller * Paul Rehkopf * Georg H. Schnell * Fritz Schulz * Herbert Stock * Hanni Weisse Hanni Weisse (16 October 1892 – 13 December 1967) was a German stage and film actress.Sutton, Katie. The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany', pp. 68-69. New York, New York: Bergahn, 2011. She appeared in 146 films between 1912 and 1942. Biograph ... References Bibliography * Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. ''The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books. External links * 1921 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lothar Mendes
Lothar Mendes (19 May 1894 – 24 February 1974) was a German-born screenwriter and film director. His two best known films are ''Jew Süss (1934 film), Jew Süss'' (1934) and ''The Man Who Could Work Miracles'' (1936), both productions for British studios. Career Born in Berlin, Mendes began his career as an actor in Vienna and Berlin in Max Reinhardt's company. After directing his first two films in Berlin, he settled in the United States in the early 1920s and remained there until 1933, directing more than a dozen features, mostly frothy comedies, while under contract to Paramount Pictures, Paramount. His films included the last silent film made in the USA, ''The Four Feathers (1929 film), The Four Feathers'' (1929), and the murder mystery ''Payment Deferred'' (1933) starring British actor Charles Laughton. After Adolf Hitler came to power, Mendes, who was Jews, Jewish, traveled to Britain to work at Gaumont-British Pictures, directing films with Michael Balcon producing. Und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg John
Georg John (born Georg Jacobsohn; 23 July 1879 – 18 November 1941) was a German stage and film actor. Early life Georg Jacobsohn was born into a Jewish household in Schmiegel, Province of Posen, Imperial Germany. Career John began his career around 1900 in smaller stages and traveling theatres. In 1904, he was engaged at the Theater of Wilhelmshaven, followed by appearances at Stolp in 1905, Altona, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Bochum and Göttingen. In 1914, John worked as an actor and producer for Vaterländische Schauspiele in Vienna. In 1917, John first appeared in silent movies, playing a Tibetan monk in ''Die Fremde'' (''The Stranger''), and Death in ''Hilde Warren und der Tod'' (''Hilde Warren and Death''). These roles were typical of the kinds of parts he would become known for, even if, at first, he was more often seen as a father, husband or dignitary. Beginning in the 1920s, John appeared in the films of notable German filmmakers, where he often played bizarre, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Lothar Mendes
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Of The Weimar Republic
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1921 Films
The following is an overview of 1921 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top seven films released in 1921 by U.S. gross are as follows: Events *January 21 – The silent comedy drama ''The Kid'', written by, produced by, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin (in his Tramp character) – his first full-length film as a director – and featuring Jackie Coogan, is released in the United States. It is the year's second-highest-grossing film. *March 6 – The silent epic war film '' The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse'', adapted for the screen by June Mathis, is released in the United States. It is the year's highest-grossing film (and the sixth-best-grossing silent film of all time), propels Rudolph Valentino to stardom and inspires a tango craze and a fashion for gaucho pants. *August 29 – Broadway's first $1 million theatre, Loew's State opens. *September 5 – Popular comedian R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanni Weisse
Hanni Weisse (16 October 1892 – 13 December 1967) was a German stage and film actress.Sutton, Katie. The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany', pp. 68-69. New York, New York: Bergahn, 2011. She appeared in 146 films between 1912 and 1942. Biography Hanni Weisse was born on 16 October 1892 in Chemnitz. In 1910, she received an apprenticeship in cello playing and first appeared in small roles with choral engagement at the Berlin Thalia Theater in 1910. In 1912, Weisse became a member of the Royal Belvedere Dresden, with whom she toured all of Germany. The film director Max Mack discovered her that same year, and Weisse signed a contract with the Vitascope film company. She made her film debut in the short ''Whims of Fate'' (1912) with Erwin Fichtner and Lotte Neumann. Weisse's most popular film role was that of an alcoholic mother in E.A. Dupont's ''Alcohol'' (1919). In 1922, she starred alongside Albert Steinrück in The Blood. Weisse's first husband, Bobby E. Lüthge, wrote the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Stock (actor)
Herbert Louis Stock Sr. (September 3, 1899 – December 21, 1987) was an American football halfback who played one season in the National Football League (NFL) for the Columbus Tigers and three for the independent Ironton Tanks. Early life and education Stock was born on September 3, 1899, in Columbus, Ohio. He attended Commerce High School in Ohio, along with three other people who would later play professionally. In 1918, he joined Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he attended one year before serving as a member of the United States Army during World War I. He returned to the school in 1920, and earned a varsity letter in the following three seasons. Following his junior year, Stock was unanimously elected team captain for the . '' The Democratic Banner'' reported, "Herbert L. Stock of Columbus on Saturday was unanimously elected captain of the 1922 football team of Kenyon. Stock has completed his second year on the varsity and has been reckoned Ohio's best fullback by sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Schulz (actor)
Fritz Schulz (25 April 1896 – 9 May 1972) was a German and Austrian movie and stage actor, singer and director. Born in Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad), Austria-Hungary, he appeared in almost one hundred movies between 1917 and 1970. Of Jewish extraction, Schultz fled the German film industry in Berlin at the onset of Nazism in 1933 and moved to Vienna to act in and direct independent Austrian film productions. He departed Austria as an exile upon the German Anschluss in 1938 and settled in Switzerland where he concentrated on his stage career until his death in Zürich in 1972. He was married at the age of 14 to 19 year old actress Ágnes Esterházy from 1910 until her death in 1956. Selected filmography Actor * '' When Four Do the Same'' (1917) * ''The Onyx Head'' (1917) * ''Different from the Others'' (1919) * '' The Mask'' (1919) * ''The Secret of the American Docks'' (1919) * ''The Marquise of Armiani'' (1920) * ''Whitechapel'' (1920) * ''The Yellow Diplomat'' (1920) * ''Kri-Kri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg H
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Paul Rehkopf
Paul Anton Heinrich Rehkopf (21 May 1872 – 29 June 1949) was a German actor. He was born in Braunschweig and died in Braunschweig, Germany Selected filmography * '' Diary of a Lost Woman'' (1918) * '' Film Kathi'' (1918) * '' Lorenzo Burghardt'' (1918) * '' Der Mädchenhirt'' (1919) * ''President Barrada'' (1920) * ''The Dancer of Jaipur'' (1920) * ''Four Around a Woman'' (1921) * ''Destiny'' (1921) * ''Night and No Morning'' (1921) * '' The Red Masquerade Ball'' (1921) * ''The Man in the Background'' (1922) * ''The Circle of Death'' (1922) * '' The Sleeping Volcano'' (1922) * ''The Love Story of Cesare Ubaldi'' (1922) * '' Rose of the Asphalt Streets'' (1922) * '' Madame Golvery'' (1923) * '' Tatjana'' (1923) * '' I Had a Comrade'' (1923) * '' His Wife, The Unknown'' (1923) * '' The Secret of the Duchess'' (1923) * ''Horrido'' (1924) * ''Playing with Destiny'' (1924) * '' Man Against Man'' (1924) * ''Varieté'' (1925) * ''A Free People'' (1925) * '' Oh Those Glorious Old Studen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Meller
Edith is a feminine given name derived from the Old English words ēad, meaning 'riches or blessed', and is in common usage in this form in English, German, many Scandinavian languages and Dutch. Its French form is Édith. Contractions and variations of this name include Ditte, Dita, and Edie. It was a common first name prior to the 16th century, when it fell out of favour. It became popular again at the beginning of the 19th century, and in 2016 it was ranked at 488th most popular female name in the United States, according to the Social Security online database. It became far less common as a name for children by the late 20th century. The name Edith has five name days: May 14 in Estonia, January 13 in the Czech Republic, October 31 in Sweden, July 5 in Latvia, and September 16 in France, Hungary, Poland and Lithuania. Edith *Edith of Polesworth (died c. 960), abbess * Edith of Wessex (1025–1075), Queen of England *Edith of Wilton (961–984), English nun *Edith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Limburg
Olga Limburg (5 April 1881 – 7 March 1970) was a German theater and film actress. She began her artistic career in 1901 with a commitment at the Municipal Theatre of Poznan. Since 1902, she played at several of Berlin's leading theaters including the Tribune, the Metropol Theatre, Berlin , the comedy and the Theater am . During the early part of her theater career, Limburg usually played supporting roles. Later she worked in the "comical oldies" plays. Career Limburg's film acting career started in 1907 with a minor role in the silent film ' and followed by ' (1910). She also starred in major productions including ' (1919), ''Kean'' (1921) and Rudolf Meinert-directed ''Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King'' (1922). These films achieved her much acclaim as a supporting actress. She continued her acting career through the next decade and starred in talkies like '' Between Night and Dawn'' (1931), ', '' The Black Forest Girl'' (both 1933), '' The Girl Irene'' (1936) ''Madame Bovary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
