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Congress Dances
''Congress Dances'' is a 1932 German comedy film directed by Erik Charell and starring Lilian Harvey, Conrad Veidt and Henri Garat. It was an English-language version of the German film ''Der Kongreß tanzt''. A separate French-language version '' Le congrès s'amuse'' was also made. It is centered on the Congress of Vienna, where an Austrian commoner is mistaken for the Tsar of Russia. It was made at the Babelsberg Studio near Berlin. The film's sets were designed by Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. Cast * Lilian Harvey as Christel * Conrad Veidt as Prince Metternich * Henri Garat as Zar Alexander I / Uralsky * Lil Dagover as Countess * Gibb McLaughlin as Bibikoff * Reginald Purdell as Pepi * Philipp Manning as King of Saxony * Humberston Wright as Duke of Wellington * Helen Haye as Princess * Spencer Trevor Spencer Trevor (29 May 1875 – 22 May 1945) was a British stage and film actor. He was born as Spencer Trevor Andrews. In 1897 he married the actress Mary Davis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Charell
Erik Charell (April 8, 1894 – July 15, 1974), born as Erich Karl Löwenberg, was a German theatre and film director, dancer and actor. He is best known as the creator of musical revues and operettas, such as '' The White Horse Inn'' (''Im weißen Rössl'') and '' The Congress Dances'' (''Der Kongress tanzt''). Life and career Charell was born as Erich Karl Löwenberg in Breslau. He was the first child of Jewish parents Markus Löwenberg and Ida Korach. He also had a sister, Betti, who was born in 1886, and a younger brother named Ludwig, who was born in 1889 and later became Charell's manager. Charell studied dance in Berlin. He was discovered, according to his own account, by the press in 1913 during a performance of the ballet-pantomime ''Venezianische Abenteuer eines jungen Mannes'' by playwright Karl Vollmöller in a production of director Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. He founded his own company, the Charell-Ballett, and toured Europe during and after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic ( Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Haye
Helen Haye (born Helen Hay, 28 August 1874 – 1 September 1957) was a British stage and film actress. New York Times. 3 September 1957 Stage Hay began acting on the stage in 1898 and debuted in London in 1911 as Gertrude in ''''. In 1927, she starred in 's '' Chance Acquaintance'' at the Criterion Theatre. In 1950, she was in |
Humberston Wright
Humbertson Wright (1876 in London, England, UK – 1953), sometimes credited as Humberstone Wright or Humberston H. Wright, was a British film actor. Filmography * '' Trapped by the London Sharks'' (1916) * '' Thelma'' (1918) * '' The Secret Woman'' (1918) * '' The Romance of Lady Hamilton'' (1919) * '' The Rocks of Valpre'' (1919) * '' The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton'' (1919) * '' God's Clay'' (1919) * '' The Garden of Resurrection'' (1919) * ''The Little Welsh Girl'' (1920) * ''Walls of Prejudice'' (1920) * ''The Way of the World'' (1920) * '' Uncle Dick's Darling'' (1920) * '' The English Rose'' (1920) * '' The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's'' (1921) * '' The Glorious Adventure'' (1922) * '' The Peacemaker'' (1922) * ''A Sporting Double'' (1922) * '' Creation'' (1922) * ''Fu Manchu'' (1923) * '' The Sign of Four'' (1923) * '' Sally Bishop'' (1924) * '' In the Blood'' (1923) * '' Henry, King of Navarre'' (1924) * '' Slaves of Destiny'' (1924) * '' The Gay Corinthian'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philipp Manning
Philipp Manning (23 November 1869 – 9 April 1951) was a British-born German actor. He was born in Lewisham to a British father and a German mother. He was sent to Germany for his education and settled there. He often played British characters in German films, including in Nazi propaganda ones. He died in Waldshut-Tiengen. Selected filmography * ''Circus of Life'' (1921) * '' The Inheritance'' (1922) * '' Lucrezia Borgia'' (1922) * '' Rose of the Asphalt Streets'' (1922) * ''The Ancient Law'' (1923) * '' Friedrich Schiller'' (1923) * '' The Comedian's Child'' (1923) * '' Time Is Money'' (1923) * '' Heart of Stone'' (1924) * '' Dudu, a Human Destiny'' (1924) * '' Darling of the King'' (1924) * '' Bismarck'' (1925) * ''Express Train of Love'' (1925) * '' Ship in Distress'' (1925) * '' Shadows of the Metropolis'' (1925) * ''Frisian Blood'' (1925) * '' Superfluous People'' (1926) * '' The Woman's Crusade'' (1926) * '' Professor Imhof '' (1926) * '' Love's Joys and Woes'' (1926) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Purdell
Reginald Purdell (4 November 1896 – 22 April 1953) was an English actor and screenwriter who appeared in over 40 films between 1930 and 1951. During the same period he also contributed to the screenplays of 15 feature films, such as '' The Dark Tower'', and had a brief foray into directing with two films in 1937. Early life Purdell was born in Clapham, London, the son of Charles William Grasdorff by his marriage to Mary Ann Piddill. At the 1881 census a few weeks after the marriage the couple was living in Monmouthshire and his father stated his name as Carl H. W. Grasdorff, giving his place of birth as Germany, about 1844, while his mother gave hers as Cardiff, about 1857. Grasdorff was naturalized as a British subject under the name of Carl Hermann Wilhelm Grasdorff. Mary Ann Grasdorff's maiden name of Piddill, suitably improved, later provided their son's stage name. In 1892, Grasdorff was listed as "Grasdorff, Carl H. W., Newport, Monmouthshire, and Bute Docks, Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gibb McLaughlin
George McLoughlin (19 July 1879 – 30 June 1961), known professionally as Gibb McLaughlin, was an English film and stage actor. Early days McLaughlin was born in Sunderland, County Durham, England in 1879. For about 10 years he was a salesman in Kingston-upon-Hull where he sang in the Holy Trinity Church choir. He joined the Hull Amateur Operatic Society and played the part of Koko in The Mikado. After that he appeared with Anne Croft in concerts and they had a turn to themselves on the stage of the Palace Theatre. He performed as a comedian and monologist in music halls. In 1915, McLaughlin married Eleanor Morton, youngest daughter of William Morton, formerly manager of the Egyptian Hall, London and the Greenwich Theatre. Film work He appeared in 118 films between 1921 and 1959. He was known for The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Oliver Twist (1948) and Hobson's Choice (1954). He had a rare leading role as the sleuth J.G. Reeder in Edgar Wallace's '' Mr Reeder in Room 13'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lil Dagover
Lil Dagover (; born Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert; 30 September 1887 – 23 January 1980) was a German actress whose film career spanned between 1913 and 1979. She was one of the most popular and recognized film actresses in the Weimar Republic. Early life Lil Dagover was born Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert in Madiun, Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) to German parents. Some sources inaccurately give her birth name as Marta Maria Lillits. Her father, Adolf Karl Ludwig Moritz Seubert, born in Karlsruhe/Baden Germany, was a forest ranger in the service of the Dutch colonial authorities. She had two siblings. Her mother died in 1897, after which she returned to Germany, where she lived with relatives in Tübingen. She was educated at boarding schools in Baden-Baden, Weimar, and Geneva, Switzerland. Orphaned at the age of 13, she spent the rest of her adolescence with friends and relatives. After completing her education she began pursuing a career as a st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Röhrig
Walter Röhrig (13 April 1897 – 1945) was a German art director.Stephens p.163 Selected filmography * '' The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (1920) * ''Masks'' (1920) * ''Parisian Women'' (1921) * '' Island of the Dead'' (1921) * ''Miss Julie'' (1922) * ''Kaddish'' (1924) * ''Luther'' (1928) * ''The Flute Concert of Sanssouci'' (1930) * '' Hocuspocus'' (1930) * '' The Immortal Vagabond'' (1930) * ''Calais-Dover'' (1931) * ''In the Employ of the Secret Service'' (1931) * '' The Countess of Monte Cristo'' (1932) * ''Congress Dances'' (1932) * ''Waltz War'' (1933) * ''Refugees'' (1933) * ''Court Waltzes'' (1933) * '' The Empress and I'' (1933) * '' Season in Cairo'' (1933) * '' Night in May'' (1934) * '' The Young Baron Neuhaus'' (1934) * '' The Csardas Princess'' (1934) * '' The Royal Waltz'' (1935) * '' Savoy Hotel 217'' (1936) * ''Under Blazing Heavens'' (1936) * ''Diamonds'' (1937) * ''My Son the Minister'' (1937) * ''Rembrandt'' (1942) * ''A Salzburg Comedy ''A Salzburg Comedy'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Herlth
Robert Herlth (2 May 1893 – 6 January 1962) was a German art director. He was one of the leading designers of German film sets during the 1920s and 1930s.Reimer & Reimer p.146 Filmography * ''Masks'' (1920) * '' Island of the Dead'' (1921) * '' The Secret of Bombay'' (1921) * '' The Devil's Chains'' (1921) * ''Destiny'' (1921) * '' Playing with Fire'' (1921) * ''Wandering Souls'' (1921) * '' Parisian Women'' (1921) * ''Miss Julie'' (1922) * ''Madame de La Pommeraye's Intrigues'' (1922) * '' Luise Millerin'' (1922) * '' The Earl of Essex'' (1922) * '' The Treasure'' (1923) * '' Comedy of the Heart'' (1924) * '' The Last Laugh'' (1924) * '' The Chronicles of the Gray House'' (1925) * ''Tartuffe'' (1926) * ''Faust'' (1926) * ''Luther'' (1928) * '' Looping the Loop'' (1928) * '' Whirl of Youth'' (1928) * '' Four Devils'' (1928) * ''Asphalt'' (1929) * '' The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna'' (1929) * '' Manolescu'' (1929) * ''The Flute Concert of Sanssouci'' (1930) * '' The Temporar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's States of Germany, sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the Brandenburg, State of Brandenburg and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg's capital. Berlin's urban area, which has a population of around 4.5 million, is the second most populous urban area in Germany after the Ruhr. The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Metropolitan regions in Germany, Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Rhine-Main regions. Berlin straddles the banks of the Spree (river), Spree, which flows into the Havel (a tributary of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babelsberg Studio
Babelsberg Film Studio (german: Filmstudio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the second oldest large-scale film studio in the world only preceded by the Danish Nordisk Film (est. 1906), producing films since 1912. With a total area of about and a studio area of about it is Europe's largest film studio. Hundreds of films, including Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis'' and Josef von Sternberg's '' The Blue Angel'' were filmed there. More recent productions include ''V for Vendetta'', '' Captain America: Civil War'', '' Æon Flux'', ''The Bourne Ultimatum'', ''Valkyrie'', '' Inglourious Basterds'', '' Cloud Atlas'', '' The Grand Budapest Hotel'', '' The Hunger Games'', ''Isle of Dogs'' and '' The Matrix Resurrections''. Today, Studio Babelsberg remains operational mainly for feature film productions. It also acts as producer on German productions and co-producer on international high-budget productions. Since January 2022 it has been owned by TPG Real ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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