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Women Are Better Diplomats
''Women Are Better Diplomats'' (german: Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten) is a 1941 German musical comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Marika Rökk, Willy Fritsch and Aribert Wäscher. It was based on a novel by Hans Flemming. The film was the first German feature film to be made in colour, and was one of the most expensive films produced during the Third Reich. The film met with a positive public response and was among the most popular German films of the early war years. Plot A dancer named Marie-Luise Pally is sent on a diplomatic mission to the Frankfurt Parliament in an attempt to stop her uncle's casino in Homburg shutting down. The film is set in the German revolutions of 1848–1849. Cast Production The production period for ''Women Are Better Diplomats'' was both long and expensive, as the production team encountered various difficulties during the making of the film. It took longer to produce than any other Universum Film AG (Ufa) production,Bruns, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Jacoby
Georg Jacoby (23 July 1882 – 21 February 1964) was a German film director and screenwriter. , bfi.org.uk; accessed 11 December 2016. Biography Jacoby was born in Mainz, Germany, the son of Wilhelm Jacoby (1855-1925), a German comedic playwright, who concentrated largely on creating farces, such as '' The Duchess of Athens'' (1883) and '' Pension Schöller'' (1890), wh ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula Herking
Ursula Herking (28 January 1912 – 17 November 1974) was a German film actress. She appeared in more than 130 films between 1933 and 1972. She was born in Dessau, Germany and died in Munich, West Germany. Selected filmography * '' Susanne in the Bath'' (1936) * '' Stronger Than Regulations'' (1936) * '' Uncle Bräsig'' (1936) *'' The Chief Witness'' (1937) * '' Togger'' (1937) * '' The Grey Lady'' (1937) * ''The Four Companions'' (1938) * ''Red Orchids'' (1938) * '' Twelve Minutes After Midnight'' (1939) * '' Goodbye, Franziska'' (1941) * ''A Gust of Wind'' (1942) * '' Love Me'' (1942) * ''Bravo Acrobat!'' (1943) * ''Beloved Darling'' (1943) * '' A Man With Principles?'' (1943) * ''Nora'' (1944) * ''The Roedern Affair'' (1944) * ''A Wife for Three Days'' (1944) * ''Thank You, I'm Fine'' (1948) * '' Trouble Backstairs'' (1949) * '' Shadows in the Night'' (1950) * ''Who Drove the Grey Ford?'' (1950) * ''Furioso'' (1950) * '' Unknown Sender'' (1950) * '' When a Woman Loves'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babelsberg Park
Babelsberg Park (german: Park Babelsberg) is a 114 hectare park in the northeast of the city of Potsdam, bordering on the ''Tiefen See'' lake on the River Havel. The park was first designed by the landscape artist Peter Joseph Lenné and, after him, by Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau and Karl Friedrich Schinkel, by order of the then-prince William I and his wife, Augusta. Located on a hill sloping down to the lake, the park and castle are part of the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin, which were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List because of their unique architecture and testimony to the development of landscape design. Park After Glienicke Palace had been built for his brother Charles and Charlottenhof Palace for his brother Frederick William IV, Prince William also strove to have his own residence built. He received support for this idea from Lenné, who wanted to turn the area around Potsdam into an artistic synthesis and saw the opportunity of la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Technicolor
Technicolor is a series of Color motion picture film, color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades. Definitive Technicolor movies using three black and white films running through a special camera (3-strip Technicolor or Process 4) started in the early 1930s and continued through to the mid-1950s when the 3-strip camera was replaced by a standard camera loaded with single strip 'monopack' color negative film. Technicolor Laboratories were still able to produce Technicolor prints by creating three black and white matrices from the Eastmancolor negative (Process 5). Process 4 was the second major color process, after Britain's Kinemacolor (used between 1908 and 1914), and the most widely used color process in Cinema of the United States, Hollywood during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Technicolor's #Process 4: Development and introduction, three-color process became known and celebrated for its highly s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agfacolor
An Agfacolor slide dated 1937 from café in Oslo, Norway. An Agfacolor slide dated 1937 from Paris, France. An Agfacolor slide dated 1938 from Hungary. An Agfacolor slide dated 1938 from Zakopane in Poland. An Agfacolor slide dated 1938 from Sweden. Budapest in Hungary, 1939. An Agfacolor slide dating from the early 1940s. While the colors themselves have held up well, damage visible includes dust and Newton's rings. Swedish battleship HM Pansarskepp Gustaf V (An Agfacolor slide dated until 1957). Agfacolor was the name of a series of color film products made by Agfa of Germany. The first Agfacolor, introduced in 1932, was a film-based version of their Agfa-Farbenplatte (Agfa color plate), a "screen plate" product similar to the French Autochrome. In late 1936, Agfa introduced Agfacolor Neu (New Agfacolor), a pioneering color film of the general type still in use today. The new Agfacolor was originally a reversal film used for making "slides", home movies and short do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Fiedler
Erich Fiedler (15 March 1901 – 19 May 1981) was a German film actor. He was the German dubbing voice of Robert Morley. Selected filmography * ''The Escape to Nice'' (1932) * ''Overnight Sensation'' (1932) * '' Marion, That's Not Nice'' (1933) * ''The Gentleman from Maxim's'' (1933) * '' The Page from the Dalmasse Hotel'' (1933) * ''The Two Seals'' (1934) * ''Black Fighter Johanna'' (1934) * '' Love Conquers All'' (1934) * ''The Flower Girl from the Grand Hotel'' (1934) * '' The Sporck Battalion'' (1934) * ''My Life for Maria Isabella'' (1935) * ''The Cossack and the Nightingale'' (1935) *''The Green Domino'' (1935) * '' Every Day Isn't Sunday'' (1935) * ''I Was Jack Mortimer'' (1935) * '' The Student of Prague'' (1935) * ''Uncle Bräsig'' (1936) * '' Escapade'' (1936) * ''Paul and Pauline'' (1936) * '' Susanne in the Bath'' (1936) * ''Game on Board'' (1936) * ''Savoy Hotel 217'' (1936) * '' The Girl Irene'' (1936) * ' (1936) * ''Woman's Love—Woman's Suffering'' (1937) * '' De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Oß
Edith Oß (1914–2012) was a German dancer and film actress.Lentz p.218-19 Selected filmography * ''The Private Life of Louis XIV'' (1935) * '' All Because of the Dog'' (1935) * ''Punks Arrives from America'' (1935) * '' Men, Animals and Sensations'' (1938) * '' We Danced Around the World'' (1939) * ''The Girl at the Reception'' (1940) * ''Women Are Better Diplomats'' (1941) * ''Clarissa'' (1941) * ''We Make Music'' (1942) * '' The Night in Venice'' (1943) * ''A Flea in Her Ear ''A Flea in Her Ear'' (french: La Puce à l'oreille) is a play by Georges Feydeau written in 1907, at the height of the Belle Époque. The author called it a vaudeville, but in Anglophone countries, where it is the most popular of Feydeau's play ...'' (1943) * '' The Time with You'' (1948) * '' Once on the Rhine'' (1952) References Bibliography * Lentz III, Harris M. ''Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2012''. McFarland, 2013. External links * 1914 births 2012 deaths German female dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Carl
Rudolf Carl (19 June 189915 January 1987) was an Austrian actor who appeared in more than 150 German language films between 1934 and 1969. He also directed two films '' Der Leberfleck'' and '' Dort in der Wachau''. Selected filmography * '' Polish Blood'' (1934) * '' Frasquita'' (1934) * '' A Star Fell from Heaven'' (1934) * '' The Young Baron Neuhaus'' (1934) * '' Little Mother'' (1935) * '' Suburban Cabaret'' (1935) * '' Heaven on Earth'' (1935) * ''Dance Music'' (1935) * '' The Cossack and the Nightingale'' (1935) * '' Hannerl and Her Lovers'' (1936) * '' Where the Lark Sings'' (1936) * '' The Postman from Longjumeau'' (1936) * '' The Love of the Maharaja'' (1936) * ''Adventure in Warsaw'' (1937) * '' The Vagabonds'' (1937) * ''Little County Court'' (1938) * '' Woman in the River'' (1939) * '' Immortal Waltz'' (1939) * '' Linen from Ireland'' (1939) * '' Roses in Tyrol'' (1940) * '' The White Dream'' (1943) * '' Scandal at the Embassy'' (1950) * '' No Sin on the Alpine Pasture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Günther
Karl Günther (25 November 1885 – 27 June 1951) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * '' The Masked Ones'' (1920) * ''The Riddle of the Sphinx'' (1921) * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * ''The Call of Destiny'' (1922) * '' Your Valet'' (1922) * '' Modern Vices'' (1924) * ''The Queen of Moulin Rouge'' (1926) * ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' (1935) * '' Court Theatre'' (1936) * ''Alarm in Peking'' (1937) * ''Premiere'' (1937) * ''The Charm of La Boheme'' (1937) * '' A Prussian Love Story'' (1938) * ''The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl'' (1938) * '' Triad'' (1938) * '' Secret Code LB 17'' (1938) * ''Maria Ilona'' (1939) * ''Hotel Sacher'' (1939) * '' Stern von Rio'' (1940) * ''Women Are Better Diplomats'' (1941) * ''Der große König'' (1942) * ''Andreas Schlüter'' (1942) * '' A Man With Principles?'' (1943) * '' The Big Number'' (1943) * ''Romance in a Minor Key'' (1943) * '' The Second Shot'' (1943) * '' The War of the Oxen'' (1943) * ''Nora'' (1944) * ''The Roede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Von Thellmann
Erika von Thellmann (1902–1988) was an Austrian actress who appeared in more than a hundred films and television series during her career.Fritsche p.254 Selected filmography * ''The Stone Rider'' (1923) * '' Marriage Strike'' (1935) *''The Green Domino'' (1935) * '' The Valley of Love'' (1935) * '' Susanne in the Bath'' (1936) * ''The Irresistible Man'' (1937) * '' The Deruga Case'' (1938) * ''The Great and the Little Love'' (1938) * '' Opera Ball'' (1939) * ''Roses in Tyrol'' (1940) * ''My Daughter Doesn't Do That'' (1940) * ''Carl Peters'' (1941) * ''Women Are Better Diplomats'' (1941) * ''With the Eyes of a Woman'' (1942) * '' Kohlhiesel's Daughters'' (1943) * '' Young Hearts'' (1944) * '' Tell the Truth'' (1946) * ''Everything Will Be Better in the Morning''_(1948) *_''In_the_Temple_of_Venus.html" ;"title="ilm directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt">ilm.html" ;"title="omedy [film">omedy [film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Ellen Schwa ...'' (1948) * ''In the Temple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Peukert
Leonhard "Leo" Peukert (26 August 1885 – 6 January 1944) was a prolific German film actor and film director, appearing in more than a hundred and fifty productions between 1910 and his death in 1944. While occasionally he played a leading role in his early years, such as the comedy '' The Happy Journey'' (1924),Grange p.164 he mostly appeared as a character actor. Peukert was also a film director, making eleven short and feature films during the silent era. He was married to the actress Sabine Impekoven who appeared with him in several silent films. Selected filmography * '' Poor Jenny'' (1912) * '' My Leopold'' (1914) * '' My Leopold'' (1919) * '' The Love of Marion Bach'' (1919) * '' King Krause'' (1919) * '' Hasemann's Daughters'' (1920) * '' My Leopold'' (1924) * '' The Happy Journey'' (1924) * '' The Second Mother'' (1925) * ''Radio Magic'' (1927) * ''Two Under the Stars'' (1927) * ''I Stand in the Dark Midnight'' (1927) * '' Mikosch Comes In'' (1928) * '' Autumn on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
