''The Men Around Lucy'' (German:''Die Männer um Lucie'') is a 1931 American
drama film
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directed and produced by
Alexander Korda
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Walter Rilla
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Joinville Studios
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A second studio was added to the original ...
in
Paris
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, it is one of several
multi-language version
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s of the 1930 film ''
Laughter
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'', with distribution in Germany by
UFA
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as part of the
Parufamet Parufamet was the name of a distribution company established by the American film studios Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and the German UFA GmbH
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Walter Rilla
Walter Rilla (22 August 1894 – 21 November 1980) was a German film actor of Jewish descent.Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), pg. 213 He appea ...
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)
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Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur
Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur (6 March 1886 – 13 May 1960) was a German film actor.
Early life
Stahl-Nachbaur was born in Munich, Germany and died at age 74 in Berlin.
Selected filmography
* ''Das Geschlecht der Schelme. 1. Teil'' (1917)
* ''Das v ...
as Prunier
*
Charles Puffy
Charles Puffy (born Károly Hochstadt; 3 November 1884 – 1942 or 1943) was a Hungarian film actor.
Biography
Hochstadt appeared in more than 130 films between 1914 and 1938. He was the only slapstick star in Hungary's silent film era, appear ...
as Wirt
*
Jaro Fürth
Jaro Fürth (born Edwin Fürth-Jaro; 21 April 1871 – 12 November 1945) was an Austrian stage and film actor.
Early life
Fürth was born to Jewish parents in Prague.Eugen Jensen
Eugen Jensen (1871–1957) was an Austrian stage and film actor. He worked frequently in the Austrian and German cinemas during the silent era in supporting roles in films such as ''The Love of Jeanne Ney'' (1927).Eisner p.351 Following the Anchlu ...
as Oberkellner
References
Bibliography
* Cheryl Krasnick Warsh & Dan Malleck. ''Consuming Modernity: Gendered Behaviour and Consumerism before the Baby Boom''. UBC Press, 2013.