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The Spanish Fly (1931 Film)
''The Spanish Fly'' (German: ''Die spanische Fliege'') is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Betty Bird, Lizzi Waldmüller and Fritz Schulz. It was shot at the Halensee Studios in Berlin. It was based on the 1913 play '' The Spanish Fly'' by Franz Arnold and Ernst Bach. The film was remade in 1955. Cast *Betty Bird *Lizzi Waldmüller * Fritz Schulz *Hans Brausewetter *Oscar Sabo *Julia Serda *Lizzi Natzler *Ralph Arthur Roberts *Paul Westermeier *Hans Hermann Schaufuß *Gertrud Wolle *Paul Biensfeldt *Arthur Mainzer *Henry Bender * Franz Weber *Laurie Lane *Erika Helmke Erika Helmke (1908–2002) was a German stage and film actress.Hinton p.167 She married the Canadian artist Herbert Dassel and emigrated to Canada. Selected filmography * '' The Spanish Fly'' (1931) * ''I Do Not Want to Know Who You Are'' (1932) ... References Bibliography * Klaus, Ulrich J. ''Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1931''. Klaus-Archiv, 2006. External links * 1931 ...
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Georg Jacoby
Georg Jacoby (23 July 1882 – 21 February 1964) was a German film director and screenwriter.Profile
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Biography

Jacoby was born in Mainz, Germany, the son of Wilhelm Jacoby (1855-1925), a German comedic playwright, who concentrated largely on creating farces, such as '' The Duchess of Athens'' (1883) and '' Pension Schöller'' (1890), wh ...
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Oscar Sabo
Oscar Sabo (29 August 1881, in Vienna – 2 May 1969, in Berlin) was an Austrian actor. Selected filmography * '' Jettatore'' (1919) * ''The False Dimitri'' (1922) * '' Storm in a Water Glass'' (1931) * ''The Little Escapade'' (1931) * '' The Spanish Fly'' (1931) * '' A Night in Paradise'' (1932) * ''Gitta Discovers Her Heart'' (1932) * ''Things Are Getting Better Already'' (1932) * ''Wedding at Lake Wolfgang'' (1933) * '' The Marathon Runner'' (1933) * ''Girls of Today'' (1933) * '' Love Must Be Understood'' (1933) * '' Tales from the Vienna Woods'' (1934) * ''Fresh Wind from Canada'' (1935) * '' Last Stop'' (1935) * ''The Court Concert'' (1936) * ''The Divine Jetta'' (1937) * '' Steputat & Co.'' (1938) *''The Secret Lie'' (1938) * '' The Deruga Case'' (1938) * '' Heimatland'' (1939) * ''Detours to Happiness'' (1939) * '' Twelve Minutes After Midnight'' (1939) * '' Left of the Isar, Right of the Spree'' (1940) * ''The Girl at the Reception'' (1940) * '' Counterfeiters'' (1940) * ' ...
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Films Directed By Georg Jacoby
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German Comedy Films
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Films Of The Weimar Republic
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1931 Comedy Films
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. * February 10 – Official ...
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Erika Helmke
Erika Helmke (1908–2002) was a German stage and film actress.Hinton p.167 She married the Canadian artist Herbert Dassel and emigrated to Canada. Selected filmography * '' The Spanish Fly'' (1931) * ''I Do Not Want to Know Who You Are'' (1932) * '' The Lake Calls'' (1933) * ''Paul and Pauline'' (1936) * ''The Night With the Emperor'' (1936) * '' Dangerous Game'' (1937) * ''Liberated Hands'' (1939) * '' The Gasman'' (1941) * ''Clarissa'' (1941) * ''Everything for Gloria ''Everything for Gloria'' (german: Alles für Gloria) is a 1941 German romantic comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Leo Slezak, Laura Solari and Johannes Riemann. The film was shot at the Cinecittà in Rome, and marked the German debu ...'' (1941) References Bibliography * Hinton, Stephen. ''Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera''. CUP Archive, 1990. External links * 1908 births 2002 deaths German film actresses German stage actresses German emigrants to Canada Actresses from Berlin 20th-ce ...
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Franz Weber (actor)
Franz Weber (24 March 1888 – 10 August 1962) was a German actor who appeared in more than a hundred films during a lengthy screen career.Giesen p.208 He appeared in a diverse range of productions which encompassed the Weimar, Nazi and post-war (both East and West Germany) eras. Selected filmography * ''There Is a Woman Who Never Forgets You'' (1930) * ''Panic in Chicago'' (1931) * '' Berlin-Alexanderplatz'' (1931) * '' Weekend in Paradise'' (1931) * ''The Trunks of Mr. O.F.'' (1931) * '' The Spanish Fly'' (1931) * ''Spell of the Looking Glass'' (1932) * ''Little Girl, Great Fortune'' (1933) * '' Paganini'' (1934) * ''The Two Seals'' (1934) * ''Such a Rascal'' (1934) * '' Gypsy Blood'' (1934) * '' The Island'' (1934) * ''The Brenken Case'' (1934) * '' The Double'' (1934) * ''Pillars of Society'' (1935) * ''A Strange Guest'' (1936) * ''Family Parade'' (1936) * ''Capers'' (1937) * ''Freight from Baltimore'' (1938) * '' Triad'' (1938) * ''Dance on the Volcano'' (1938) * ''Yvette'' (1 ...
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Henry Bender
Henry Bender (born Harry Bandheimer; 1867–1933) was a German stage and film actor.Chandler p. 272 He appeared in more than a hundred films during his career. Selected filmography * ''The Devil'' (1918) * '' Madeleine'' (1919) * ''Whitechapel'' (1920) * '' The Lord of the Beasts'' (1921) * ''Murder Without Cause'' (1921) * ''The Hunt for the Truth'' (1921) * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1921) * ''The Riddle of the Sphinx'' (1921) * ''The Two Pigeons'' (1922) * ''Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King'' (1922) * ''Miss Rockefeller Is Filming'' (1922) * '' Sunken Worlds'' (1922) * ''His Excellency from Madagascar'' (1922) * ''The Girl with the Mask'' (1922) * ''Horrido'' (1924) * ''Gobseck'' (1924) * ''The Most Beautiful Woman in the World'' (1924) * ''Express Train of Love'' (1925) * ''Flight Around the World'' (1925) * ''Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * '' Give My Regards to the Blonde Child on the Rhine'' (1926) * ''The Blue Danube'' ...
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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 filmography * '' The Canned Bride'' (1915) * '' The Queen's Love Letter'' (1916) * ''Countess Kitchenmaid'' (1918) * '' The Blue Lantern'' (1918) * ''The Adventure of a Ball Night'' (1918) * '' Carmen'' (1918) * ''The Victors'' (1918) * '' My Wife, the Movie Star'' (1919) * ''The Bodega of Los Cuerros'' (1919) * '' The Spies'' (1919) * ''Harakiri'' (1919) * ''Prince Cuckoo'' (1919) * '' Veritas Vincit'' (1919) * ''A Drive into the Blue'' (1919) * '' Mascotte'' (1920) * '' Va banque'' (1920) * '' Romeo and Juliet in the Snow'' (1920) * '' Sumurun'' (1920) * '' The Hunchback and the Dancer'' (1920) * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1921) * '' The Wild Cat'' (1921) * '' Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'' (1922) * ...
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Gertrud Wolle
Gertrud Wolle (11 March 1891 – 6 July 1952) was a German film actress. Selected filmography * '' Die Insel der Glücklichen'' (1919) * ''Prince Cuckoo'' (1919) * ''Roswolsky's Mistress'' (1921) * '' A Glass of Water'' (1923) * ''Burglars'' (1930) * '' The Three from the Filling Station'' (1930) * '' Bombs on Monte Carlo'' (1931) * '' The Spanish Fly'' (1931) * ''The Private Secretary'' (1931) * ''The Little Escapade'' (1931) * '' The True Jacob'' (1931) * ''Two Hearts Beat as One'' (1932) * ''When Love Sets the Fashion'' (1932) * ''Things Are Getting Better Already'' (1932) * ''Girls to Marry'' (1932) * '' The Beautiful Adventure'' (1932) * ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' (1932) * ''Viktor und Viktoria'' (1933) * '' And Who Is Kissing Me?'' (1933) * '' Tell Me Who You Are'' (1933) * '' The English Marriage'' (1934) * ''Enjoy Yourselves'' (1934) * '' Music in the Blood'' (1934) * ''Decoy'' (1934) * ''A Night of Change ''A Night of Change'' (german: Nacht der Verwandlung) ...
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Hans Hermann SchaufuĂź
Hans Hermann Schaufuß (13 July 1893 – 30 January 1982) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1922 to 1969. His sons were actors Hans Joachim Schaufuß Hans Joachim Schaufuß (transliterated: Schaufuss) (28 December 1918 – 27 October 1941) was a German actor. Schaufuß began as a child actor, appearing in '' Emil and the Detectives'' (1931) and '' The White Demon'' (1932). From the mid-1930s he ... and Peter-Timm Schaufuß. Selected filmography References External links * 1893 births 1982 deaths German male film actors German male silent film actors 20th-century German male actors Male actors from Berlin {{Germany-actor-stub ...
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