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Marriage Sanitarium
''Marriage Sanitarium'' (German: ''Ehesanatorium'') is a 1955 Austrian comedy film directed by Franz Antel and starring Adrian Hoven, Maria Emo and Margit Saad. It was shot at the Sievering and Schönbrunn Studios in Vienna. The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff. Plot A young reporter and his photographer colleague desperately try and get some pictures of a famous but reclusive circulatory specialist that their publisher has demanded. They then take on the challenge of infiltrating a famous sanatorium known to help cure marriage problems. Cast *Adrian Hoven as Stefan Seidlitz, Journalist * Maria Emo as Franziska Kaub * Margit Saad as Rita Keller * Hans Moser as Meisel *Paul Hörbiger as Professor Thomas Eschenburg *Gunther Philipp as Fritz Keller, Pressefotograf *Oskar Sima as Director Lehmann *Christl Mardayn as Elisabeth Kaub - publisher *Annie Rosar as Laura Hübner *Susi Nicoletti as Amanda Dietze *Adrienne Gessner as Mrs. Lehmann *Rud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Antel
Franz Antel (28 June 1913 – 11 August 2007) was a veteran Austrian filmmaker. Born in Vienna, Antel worked mainly as a film producer in the interwar years. After World War II, he began writing and directing films on a large scale. In the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s these were mainly comedies ( romantic, slapstick, and/or musical) and K.u.k. films' all of which, for Austrian and German TV stations alike, have been a staple of weekend afternoon programming ever since. In between there is quite a sober film about the Oberst (Colonel) Redl affair that shook the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy on the eve of World War I. Antel himself later commented on this period, "I always wanted to provide good entertainment for the people at the cinema. After the screening, people should say: Well now, I am in a good mood, I will go out and have a glass of wine." (German original: "Ich wollte die Leute im Kino immer gut unterhalten. Die Besucher sollten nach der Filmvorführung sagen: So, jetzt b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it visual communication, communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style (visual arts), style(s) to use, and when to use motion graphic design, motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Böheim
Franz Böheim (June 24, 1909 – March 24, 1963) was an Austrian film actor. Böheim appeared in more than fifty films and television series, including the 1947 film ''It's Only Love'' in which he played Franz Schubert.Mitchell p.200 He was the brother of the actors Carlo Böhm and Alfred Böhm. Selected filmography * ''Anton the Last'' (1939) * ''Immortal Waltz'' (1939) * '' Beloved Augustin'' (1940) * ''Late Love'' (1943) * ''The Heart Must Be Silent'' (1944) * ''Die Fledermaus'' (1946) * ''It's Only Love'' (1947) * ''The Heavenly Waltz'' (1948) * ''Adventure in Vienna'' (1952) * ''Arena of Death'' (1953) * '' Grandstand for General Staff'' (1953) * ''Marriage Sanitarium'' (1955) * '' Mozart'' (1955) * ''The Blue Danube "The Blue Danube" is the common English title of "An der schönen blauen Donau", Op. 314 (German for "By the Beautiful Blue Danube"), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866. Originally performed on 15 Februa ...'' (1955) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gerhard (actor)
Peter Gerhard (1920 – 15 February 2006, Fayence, France) was a historical geographer whose work focused on colonial Mexico or New Spain. He pursued graduate studies at University of California, Berkeley, and was influenced by Carl O. Sauer Carl Ortwin Sauer (December 24, 1889 – July 18, 1975) was an American geographer. Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California at Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor emeritus in 1957. He has been called "the d ... and Herbert Bolton. Publications Books * * * * Articles * * * * * * * References 1920 births 2006 deaths Historical geographers Historians of Mexico University of California, Berkeley alumni {{geographer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Carl
Rudolf Carl (19 June 189915 January 1987) was an Austrian actor who appeared in more than 150 German language films between 1934 and 1969. He also directed two films '' Der Leberfleck'' and '' Dort in der Wachau''. Selected filmography * '' Polish Blood'' (1934) * '' Frasquita'' (1934) * '' A Star Fell from Heaven'' (1934) * '' The Young Baron Neuhaus'' (1934) * '' Little Mother'' (1935) * '' Suburban Cabaret'' (1935) * '' Heaven on Earth'' (1935) * ''Dance Music'' (1935) * '' The Cossack and the Nightingale'' (1935) * '' Hannerl and Her Lovers'' (1936) * '' Where the Lark Sings'' (1936) * '' The Postman from Longjumeau'' (1936) * '' The Love of the Maharaja'' (1936) * ''Adventure in Warsaw'' (1937) * '' The Vagabonds'' (1937) * ''Little County Court'' (1938) * '' Woman in the River'' (1939) * '' Immortal Waltz'' (1939) * '' Linen from Ireland'' (1939) * '' Roses in Tyrol'' (1940) * '' The White Dream'' (1943) * '' Scandal at the Embassy'' (1950) * '' No Sin on the Alpine Pasture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrienne Gessner
Adrienne Gessner (23 July 1896 – 23 June 1987) was an Austrian actress. Gessner appeared in over fifty film and television shows during her career, including the 1955 costume film '. Gessner appeared in a mixture of German and Austrian films during her career. Following the Anchluss of 1938 she fled with her Jewish husband Ernst Lothar to the United States, returning after the Second World War.Vansart p.18 Selected filmography * ''Catherine the Last'' (1936) * '' After the Storm'' (1948) * '' The Angel with the Trumpet'' (1948) * ''Vagabonds'' (1949) * '' No Time for Flowers'' (1952) * ''Adventure in Vienna'' (1952) * '' Voices of Spring'' (1952) * '' Stolen Identity'' (1953) * '' Grandstand for General Staff'' (1953) * ''The Witch'' (1954) * ' (1955) * ''Crown Prince Rudolph's Last Love'' (1955) * ''I Often Think of Piroschka'' (1955) * ''Marriage Sanitarium'' (1955) * ''The Blue Danube'' (1955) * ''The Golden Bridge'' (1956) * ''Salzburg Stories'' (1957) * '' The Schimeck Famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susi Nicoletti
Susi Nicoletti (3 September 1918 – 5 June 2005) was a Bavarian-born actress best remembered today for over 100 supporting roles mostly in comedy films. She was born as Susanne Emilie Luise Adele Habersack in Munich, but spent most of her childhood with her parents in Amsterdam. Back in Munich, she made her stage debut at age 13. Two years later she became a ballerina. In the early 1930s she turned to cabaret. In 1939, she was offered her first film role. In 1940 she moved to Vienna, where she became a member of the Burgtheater. After her retirement in 1992 she continued her stage career at the Theater in der Josefstadt. For decades, Nicoletti taught acting and dance at the prestigious Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. Her husband, Ernst Haeussermann, was a theatre director. Death Nicoletti died in Vienna of complications after heart surgery, aged 86. Her son, daughter and grandchildren live in the United States. Selected filmography * '' A Mother's Love'' (1939) - Franzi P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Rosar
Annie Rosar (May 17, 1888 – August 5, 1963) was an Austrian stage and film actress who is best remembered today for her appearances in many Austrian comedy films from the 1930s to the early 1960s. In those movies, she was frequently cast in the comic roles of nagging wife (for example in ''Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn'' opposite Hans Moser), "evil" mother-in-law, or understanding housekeeper, whether in rural (''Heimatfilme'') or urban settings. She occasionally also appeared in serious films, including her cameo performance as the porter's wife in ''The Third Man'' (1949), and in ' based on the novel by Franz Werfel in 1958. Biography Annie Rosar was born in Vienna into a farming family based in Orth an der Donau, near Vienna. Her father Michael Rosar (1850–1927) worked as a conductor on the Vienna tram network. Having finished grammar school ('' Gymnasium''), Rosar attended the University of Music and Performing Arts and made her stage debut in the Vienna Prat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christl Mardayn
Anna Christina Maria "Christl" Mardayn (8 December 1896 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary – 24 July 1971) was an Austrian actress/singer. Life Anna Christina Maria Mardayn was the daughter of banker Oskar Maria Mardayn and his wife Henriette (née Fusek). After graduation she studied piano, dance and song at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna. In 1920 she made her stage debut in the role of a diseased soubrette in '' The Dead Eyes'' by Eugen d'Albert. As Christl Mardayn she subsequently received a firm contract to the Vienna Volksoper . She sang Cherubino in 'Le nozze di Figaro', Lola in ''Cavalleria rusticana'', and Sieglinde in ''Die Walküre''. She starred in the title role of Franz von Suppé's operetta '' Die schöne Galathee'' around 100 times. In 1921, the soubrette moved to the Raimund Theater and in 1922 went to the Charles Theatre where she sang in premiere performances of operettas such as ' Die Bajadere' by Emmerich Kálmán, ''The Dragonfly Dance'' by Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oskar Sima
Oskar Sima (31 July 1896 – 24 June 1969) was an Austrian actor who is best remembered for appearing in supporting roles in countless comedy films from the 1930s to the 1960s. Born in Hohenau an der March, Lower Austria, Sima attended high school in Vienna. After a brief tour in the army during World War I, he began acting in various theatrical productions in Berlin, Vienna, and other cities in Central Europe. He began his film career in 1921, and appeared in a number of German silent films early on. Sima was frequently cast as the comic villain whose machinations get everyone into trouble, although often his villainous stature was used to more chilling effect. In 1929, Sima married actress Lina Woiwode. The couple remained married until Sima's death. Along with Friedl Czepa, Fred Hennings and Leni Riefenstahl he was identified as being an active supporter of the Nazi Party. After World War II, Sima was a frequent character actor, causing one biographer to write, "... there w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hörbiger
Paul Hörbiger (29 April 1894 – 5 March 1981) was an Austrian theatre and film actor. Life and work Paul Hörbiger was born in the Hungarian capital Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary, the son of engineer Hanns Hörbiger, founder of the ''Welteislehre'' cosmological concept, and elder brother of actor Attila Hörbiger. In 1902, the family returned to Vienna, while Paul attended the '' gymnasium'' (high school) at St. Paul's Abbey in Carinthia. Having obtained his ''Matura'' degree, he served in a mountain artillery regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I, discharged in 1918 with the rank of an ''Oberleutnant''. After the war, Hörbiger took drama lessons and began his acting career in 1919 at the city theatre of Reichenberg (Liberec). From 1920, he performed at the New German Theatre in Prague. His fame grew when in 1926 he was employed by director Max Reinhardt at the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, reaching a high point with his appointmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Moser (actor)
Hans Moser (6 August 1880 – 19 June 1964) was an Austrian actor who, during his long career, from the 1920s up to his death, mainly played in comedy films. He was particularly associated with the genre of the ''Wiener Film''. Moser appeared in over 150 films. Biography Born Johann Julier in Vienna, Moser very often portrayed the man in the street, typically someone else's subordinate – servant, waiter, porter, shopkeeper, coachman, petty bureaucrat, etc. Also always he played honest, moral and well-intentioned people who, unable to keep cool and think clearly in crucial situations, get themselves and everyone around them into trouble. As the father of a beautiful daughter – often widowed – he was the stubborn one who realizes only at the end of the movie, when all cases of mistaken identity have been cleared up and all secrets are revealed, that he has been terribly wrong all the time. Moser was particularly known for mumbling indistinctly for comic effect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
