''My Wife, the Movie Star'' (German: ''Meine Frau, die Filmschauspielerin'') is a 1919 German silent

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directed by

Ernst Lubitsch Ernst Lubitsch (; January 29, 1892November 30, 1947) was a German-born American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as ...

and starring

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Paul Biensfeldt Paul Biensfeldt (4 March 1869 – 2 April 1933) was a German-JewishSiegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 stage and film actor. Selected filmog ...

and

Victor Janson Victor Arthur Eduard Janson ( lv, Viktors Artūrs Eduards Jansons; 25 September 1884 – 29 June 1960) was a German stage and film actor and film director of Latvian ethnicity. Selected filmography Actor * ''Your Dearest Enemy'' (1916) * '' When ...

Cast

as Ossi, der Filmstar der Fabrik *

as Dramaturg der Firma *

as Lachmann, Generaldirektor *

Max Kronert Max Kronert (born Max Josef Florian Trübsand; 1873 – 22 July 1925) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * '' Carmen'' (1918) * ''The Monastery of Sendomir'' (1919) * '' The Toy of the Tsarina'' (1919) * ''The Oyster Pr ...

as Wastel, Hotelportier * Julius Dewald as Erich von Schwind *

Hanns Kräly Hanns Kräly (January 16, 1884 – November 11, 1950), credited in the United States as Hans Kraly, was a German actor and screenwriter. His main collaborations were with director Ernst Lubitsch, and they worked together on 30 films between 1915 ...

as Dramaturg der Firma

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. * Eyman, Scott. ''Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise''. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

External links

* 1919 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films 1919 comedy films German comedy films Films directed by Ernst Lubitsch UFA GmbH films German black-and-white films Silent comedy films 1910s German films {{1910s-comedy-film-stub