Angèle Caroline Liliane Josette Marie-José DeGeest (

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

23 October 1925 –

Augsburg Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ' ...

22 December 2001) was a Belgian singer and actress. Durand was a popular singer in Germany during the early 1950s.Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2001 Harris M. Lentz III – 2002 078641278X She was 76. She was born Angele Caroline De Geest in Antwerpen, Belgium, on October 23, 1925. Durand was a popular singer from the late 1940s and performed with Duke Ellington's band in Brussels in 1950. She subsequently appeared in a handful of films in Germany including Kapt'n Bay-Bay (1952), De Lachende Vagabund (1958), Five Sinners (1960), O Sole Mio (1960), Das Ratsel der Grunen Spinne (1960) and The Playgirls and the Bellboy (1962).

Filmography

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Captain Bay-Bay ''Captain Bay-Bay'' (german: Käpt'n Bay-Bay) is a 1953 West German musical comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Hans Albers, Bum Krüger and Lotte Koch. It is in the style of an operetta film. It was shot at the Wiesbaden Studios ...

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Helmut Käutner Helmut Käutner (25 March 1908 – 20 April 1980) was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s. He entered the film industry at the end of the Weimar Republic and released his first films as a director in Nazi Germany. Käu ...

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Dancing in the Sun ''Dancing in the Sun'' (german: Tanz in der Sonne) is a 1954 West German musical film directed by Géza von Cziffra and starring Cécile Aubry, Franco Andrei and Ursula Justin.Koshofer p.110 It was shot on location in Hamburg and Andalucía. Th ...

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Géza von Cziffra Géza von Cziffra (; 19 December 1900 – 28 April 1989) was a Hungarian and Austrian film director and screenwriter. Life Cziffra was a Banat German in origin, born in 1900 in Arad in the Banat region, at that date in the Kingdom of Hungary ...

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A Girl from Paris ''A Girl from Paris'' (german: Ein Mädchen aus Paris) is a 1954 West German comedy film directed by Franz Seitz, Jr. and starring Etchika Choureau, Erich Schellow, and Hans Leibelt.Dillmann & Loewy p. 71 The film's sets were designed by the a ...

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The Mistress of Solderhof ''The Mistress of Solderhof'' (german: Die Herrin vom Sölderhof) is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Jürgen von Alten and starring Ilse Werner, Viktor Staal, and Harald Maresch. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on ...

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Hula-Hopp, Conny ''Hula-Hopp, Conny'' is a 1959 West German musical comedy film directed by Heinz Paul and starring Cornelia Froboess, Rudolf Vogel and Susi Nicoletti.Bock & Berfelder p.137 It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were design ...

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The Scarlet Baroness ''The Scarlet Baroness'' (German: ''Die feuerrote Baronesse'') is a 1959 West German spy thriller film directed by Rudolf Jugert and starring Dawn Addams, Joachim Fuchsberger and Wera Frydtberg.Craig p.324 The film's sets were designed by the a ...

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Hit Parade 1960 ''Hit Parade 1960'' (german: Schlagerparade 1960) is a 1960 West German musical film directed by Franz Marischka and starring Renate Ewert, Werner Fullerer and Hilde Nocker.Parish p.109 Cast * Renate Ewert as Susanne Grosser * Vivi Bach as Ulla ...

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The Bellboy and the Playgirls ''The Bellboy and the Playgirls'' is a 1962 American film by Francis Ford Coppola and Jack Hill. The film is a re-edited version of a West German film of 1958 originally titled '' '', directed by Fritz Umgelter with Coppola and Hill shooting nud ...

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Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola (; ; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the major figures of the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Coppola is the recipient of five A ...

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Don't Fool with Me ''Don't Fool with Me'' (German: ''Sing, aber spiel nicht mit mir'') is a 1963 Austrian musical comedy film directed by Kurt Nachmann and starring Adrian Hoven, Wera Frydtberg and Paul Hörbiger.Von Dassanowsky p.186 It was shot at the Sievering S ...

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Rosa von Praunheim Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky (born Holger Radtke; 25 November 1942), known professionally as Rosa von Praunheim, is a German film director, author, painter and one of the most famous gay rights activists in the German-speaking world. In ov ...

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