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Berthold Viertel
Berthold Viertel (28 June 1885 – 24 September 1953) was an Austrian screenwriter and film director, known for his work in Germany, the UK and the US. Early career Viertel was born in Vienna, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but later went to work in Berlin. Viertel developed a reputation as a poet and theatre director, before moving into film work from 1922. As a screenwriter and director, he collaborated with some of the leading figures of the silent era of German cinema and worked on several influential films. '' Uneasy Money'' (1926) is a work of New Objectivity film movement. He was married to screenwriter and actress Salka Viertel from 30 April 1918 to 20 December 1947. Arrival in America Following the collapse of Viertel's theatre troupe, he faced severe financial difficulties and accepted an offer from the Fox Film Corporation. He came to Los Angeles in 1928 planning to stay for just three years. Viertel wanted to gain experience working for the booming Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna
Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. Its larger metropolitan area has a population of nearly 2.9 million, representing nearly one-third of the country's population. Vienna is the Culture of Austria, cultural, Economy of Austria, economic, and Politics of Austria, political center of the country, the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fifth-largest city by population in the European Union, and the most-populous of the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. The city lies on the eastern edge of the Vienna Woods (''Wienerwald''), the northeasternmost foothills of the Alps, that separate Vienna from the more western parts of Austria, at the transition to the Pannonian Basin. It sits on the Danube, and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Abbott
George Francis Abbott (June 25, 1887January 31, 1995) was an American theatre producer, director, playwright, screenwriter, film director and producer whose career spanned eight decades. He received numerous honors including six Tony Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1982,"George Abbott Biography" kennedy-center.org, accessed August 6, 2019"History, 1982" kennedy-center.org, accessed August 6, 2019Hall, Carla; McCombs, Phil [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sacred Flame (1931 Film)
''The Sacred Flame'' (German: ''Die heilige Flamme'') is a lost 1931 American drama film directed by William Dieterle and Berthold Viertel and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Dita Parlo and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski. It was made by Warner Brothers as a German-language remake of the studio's 1929 film '' The Sacred Flame''. It is based upon the 1928 play of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham. Synopsis After newly married Stella's husband is badly injured in a plane crash, causing him to lose the use of his legs, she becomes emotionally involved with his brother. Reception Rudolf Arnheim said "It is incomprehensible how such a film can be launched in a large cinema, rather than being chastely hidden away from the eyes of any kind of criticism." Cast * Gustav Fröhlich as Walter Taylor * Dita Parlo as Stella * Hans Heinrich von Twardowski as Robert Taylor * Salka Viertel as Frau Taylor * Charlotte Hagenbruch as Schwester Weyland * Vladimir Sokoloff as Doctor Harvester * Anto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Girl (1930 Film)
''City Girl'' is a 1930 American part-talkie sound film, sound drama film directed by F. W. Murnau, and starring Charles Farrell and Mary Duncan. It follows a waitress in Chicago who falls in love with a farmer in Minnesota and leaves her life in the city to be with him. It is based upon the play "The Mud Turtle" by Elliot Lester. Though shot as a silent feature, the film was refitted with some sound elements and released in 1930 as a sound film due to the public apathy to silent films. While the film has a few talking sequences, the majority of the film featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. ''City Girl'' was filmed on location in Athena, Oregon, Athena and Pendleton, Oregon, Pendleton in eastern Oregon in 1928, with some additional exterior shooting taking place in Portland, Oregon, Portland. After location shooting was completed, interior shoots were undertaken on soundstages in Los Angeles. Fox Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4 Devils
''4 Devils'' (also known as ''Four Devils'') is a lost 1928 American Synchronized sound drama film directed by German director F. W. Murnau and starring Janet Gaynor. While the 1928 version of the film had no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film movietone process. The synchronized version had only a limited release. The film was withdrawn to add talking sequences and the final Part-Talkie version was released to theatres in June of 1929. Both versions appeared to be lost. Plot Four orphans become a high wire act and encounter sinister goings-on at a circus. An old clown takes in the four children Charles, Adolf, Marion and Louise to protect them from the brutal circus owner who is their guardian. He raises them and trains them to become acrobats. The years pass and the four children soon become successful trapeze artists who call themselves the "Four Devils". Charles and Marion are now a couple. But whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wig (1925 Film)
''The Wig'' (German: ''Die Perücke'') is a 1925 German silent comedy film directed by Berthold Viertel and starring Otto Gebühr, Jenny Hasselqvist and Henry Stuart.Grange p.190 The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Reimann. Cast * Otto Gebühr as Querulin und Fürst * Jenny Hasselqvist as Fürstin * Henry Stuart as Julian * Karl Platen as Der alte Diener * Fred Goebel as Der junge Dichter * Jaro Fürth Jaro Fürth (born Jaroslav Edwin Fürth; 21 April 1871 – 12 November 1945) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Early life Fürth was born to Jewish parents in Prague.Lilian Jaernefelt as Zofe References Bibliography * Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Scarecrow ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nora (1923 Film)
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Little Friend (film)
''Little Friend'' is a 1934 British drama film directed by Berthold Viertel and starring Matheson Lang, Nova Pilbeam and Lydia Sherwood. The film was based on a novel by Ernst Lothar and adapted for the screen by Margaret Kennedy and Christopher Isherwood. The score is by the Austrian composer then in exile Ernst Toch. Plot summary A young girl (Pilbeam) slowly becomes aware that her parents' marriage is disintegrating. Cast * Matheson Lang ... John Hughes * Lydia Sherwood ... Helen Hughes * Nova Pilbeam ... Felicity Hughes * Arthur Margetson ... Hilliard * Jean Cadell ... Miss Drew * Jimmy Hanley ... Leonard Parry * Gibb McLaughlin ... Thompson * Diana Cotton ... Maud * Cecil Parker ... Mason * Clare Greet ... Mrs. Parry * Jack Raine ... Jeffries * Finlay Currie ... Grove * Robert Nainby ... Uncle Ned * Atholl Fleming ... Shepherd * Basil Goth ... Doctor * Charles Childerstone ... Solicitor * Gerald Kent ... Butler * Allan Aynesworth ... Col. Ambe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaumont British
The Gaumont-British Picture Corporation was a British company that produced and distributed films and operated a cinema chain in the United Kingdom. It was established as an offshoot of France's Gaumont. Film production Gaumont-British was founded in 1898 as the British subsidiary of the French film studio Gaumont. In 1910, Gaumont Graphic Studios were at Shepherds Bush, in London. In 1914, the Gaumont-British film studios were opened, then completely rebuilt for sound, re-opening on 29 June 1932. "Gaumont Graphic newsreels were exhibited as part of larger cinema programmes from 1910 to 1932, when Gaumont Sound News was launched (superseded by Gaumont British News in 1934)." Gaumont's British subsidiary became independent of its French parent in 1922 when Isidore Ostrer acquired control of Gaumont-British. In 1927 the Ideal Film Company, a leading silent film maker, merged with Gaumont. The company's Lime Grove Studios was used for film productions, including Alfred Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prater Violet
''Prater Violet'' (1945) is Christopher Isherwood's fictional first person account of film-making. The Prater is a large park and amusement park in Vienna, a city important to characters in the novel for several reasons. Though Isherwood broke onto the literary scene as a novelist, he eventually worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter. In this novel, Isherwood comments on life, art, commercialization of art and Nazism. Jonathan Fryer, ''Isherwood: A Biography'' (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977) pp. 140, 210 Structure A short novel without chapter divisions, ''Prater Violet'' follows Isherwood's involvement in the creation of the eponymous film. Much of the novel records the remarks of people working in the film industry and Isherwood's conversations with a brilliant Austrian film director, Friedrich Bergmann. Only at the conclusion of the novel does Isherwood significantly separate his voice from the stream of dialogue to provide a deeper commentary and to ask, "What makes you go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Isherwood
Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include '' Goodbye to Berlin'' (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel which inspired the musical ''Cabaret'' (1966); ''A Single Man'' (1964), adapted into a film directed by Tom Ford in 2009; and '' Christopher and His Kind'' (1976), a memoir which "carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement". Biography Family Isherwood was the elder son of Francis Edward Bradshaw Isherwood (1869–1915), known as Frank, a professional soldier in the York and Lancaster Regiment, and Kathleen Bradshaw Isherwood, née Machell Smith (1868–1960), the only daughter of a successful wine merchant. He was the grandson of John Henry Isherwood, squire of Marple Hall and Wyberslegh Hall, Cheshire, and he included among his ancestors the Puritan judge John Bradshaw, who signed the death warrant of King C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Viertel
Peter Viertel (16 November 1920 – 4 November 2007) was an author and screenwriter. Biography Viertel was born to Jewish parents in Dresden, Germany, the writer and actress Salka Viertel and the writer Berthold Viertel. In 1928, his parents moved to Santa Monica, California, where Viertel grew up with his brothers, Hans and Thomas. The home in Santa Monica Canyon was the site of salons and meetings of the Hollywood intelligentsia and the émigré community of European intellectuals, particularly at the Sunday night tea parties given by Viertel's mother. However, Viertel identified more with Southern California youth culture than with the European milieu he was exposed to by his family. "The physical aspect of European intellectuals was so totally different from what an American kid wants to be," he told the ''International Herald Tribune'' in 1992. "I knew Bert Brecht was close to being a genius, but he was a funny-looking man to me." Viertel graduated from Dartmouth Colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
