''Upstairs and Downstairs'' (German: ''Vorderhaus und Hinterhaus'') is a 1925 German
silent film
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directed by
Richard Oswald
Richard Oswald (5 November 1880 – 11 September 1963) was an Austrian film director, producer, screenwriter, and father of German-American film director Gerd Oswald.
Early career
Richard Oswald, born in Vienna as Richard W. Ornstein, began h ...
and
Carl Wilhelm
Carl Wilhelm (born 1872 in Vienna; died in London 1936), was a prolific German film director, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film era, at the end of which his career apparently entirely faded away and he vanished into obscurity.
L ...
and starring
Max Adalbert
Max Adalbert (born Johannes Adolph Krampf; 19 February 1874 – 7 September 1933) was a German stage and film actor.
Biography
Adalbert was born in Danzig (Gdansk), Imperial Germany as ''Maximilian Adalbert Krampf'' to a Prussian Officer. He u ...
,
Mary Kid
Mary Kid (born Marie Anna Albertine Keul; 8 August 1901 – 29 October 1988) was a German actress. She appeared in more than forty films during the Weimar Republic, but her career came to an end in the early sound era.
Selected filmography
* '' H ...
and
Valeska Stock
Valeska Stock (1887–1966) was a German actress who appeared in around thirty films in supporting roles. Stock originally trained as a ballet dancer in her native Breslau, before moving into theatre and then into the film industry. She played th ...
.
[Bock & Bergfelder p.8]
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Heinrich Richter
Heinrich Richter (1884–1981) was a German painter and art director.Soister p.122 He designed the sets for more than a hundred films during his career.
Selected filmography
* ''The Confessions of the Green Mask'' (1916)
* ''The Sensational Tr ...
.
Cast
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Max Adalbert
Max Adalbert (born Johannes Adolph Krampf; 19 February 1874 – 7 September 1933) was a German stage and film actor.
Biography
Adalbert was born in Danzig (Gdansk), Imperial Germany as ''Maximilian Adalbert Krampf'' to a Prussian Officer. He u ...
as Adalbert Marx
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Mary Kid
Mary Kid (born Marie Anna Albertine Keul; 8 August 1901 – 29 October 1988) was a German actress. She appeared in more than forty films during the Weimar Republic, but her career came to an end in the early sound era.
Selected filmography
* '' H ...
as Ilse, seine Tochter
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Valeska Stock
Valeska Stock (1887–1966) was a German actress who appeared in around thirty films in supporting roles. Stock originally trained as a ballet dancer in her native Breslau, before moving into theatre and then into the film industry. She played th ...
as Frau Brenneis
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Mary Parker as Iduna, Frau Brenneis Tochter
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Sig Arno
Sig Arno (born Siegfried Aron, 27 December 1895 – 17 August 1975) was a German-Jewish film actor who appeared in such films as ''Pardon My Sarong'' and ''The Mummy's Hand''. He may be best remembered from ''The Palm Beach Story'' (1942) as Toto ...
as Graf A. Rohnstein
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Hans Albers
Hans Philipp August Albers (22 September 1891 – 24 July 1960) was a German actor and singer. He was the biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1960 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.
Early life
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as Otto Flaschenhals
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Betty Astor
Betty Astor (21 April 1905 – 1972) was a German film actress. She was born Berta Baesel in Germany.
Selected filmography
* ''Upstairs and Downstairs'' (1925)
* '' Should We Be Silent?'' (1926)
* ''The Transformation of Dr. Bessel'' (1927)
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as Dolly
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Trude Hesterberg
Trude Hesterberg (2 May 1892 – 31 August 1967) was a German film actress. She appeared in 89 films between 1917 and 1964.
Selected filmography
* '' The Rosentopf Case'' (1918)
* ''The Story of a Maid'' (1921)
* ''Fridericus Rex'' (1922)
...
as Auguste, Mädchen für alles
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Kurt Gerron
Kurt Gerron (11 May 1897 – 28 October 1944) was a German History of the Jews in Germany, Jewish actor and film director. He and his wife, Olga were murdered in the Holocaust.
Life
Born Kurt Gerson into a well-off merchant family in Berlin, he ...
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Harry Hardt
Harry Hardt (born Hermann Karl Viktor Klimbacher Edler von Reichswahr, Pula, 4 August 1899 – Vienna, 14 November 1980) was an Austrian actor. The son of a military officer, he initially planned a military career for himself, studying at a mil ...
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
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1925 films
1925 comedy films
German comedy films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Films directed by Carl Wilhelm
Films directed by Richard Oswald
German silent feature films
German black-and-white films
Silent comedy films
1920s German films
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