''The Queen of the Baths'' () is a 1926 German
silent comedy film
The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...
directed by
Victor Janson
Victor Arthur Eduard Janson (; 25 September 1884 – 29 June 1960) was a German stage and film actor and film director of Latvian ethnicity.
Selected filmography Actor
* '' Your Dearest Enemy'' (1916)
* '' When Four Do the Same'' (1917)
* ''Carm ...
and starring
Mary Nolan,
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 app ...
and
Livio Pavanelli
Livio Cesare Pavanelli (7 September 1881 – 29 April 1958) was an Italian film actor.
Pavanelli was born in Copparo, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy and died in Rome in 1958 at age 76.
Selected filmography
* ''Mariute'' (1918)
*''Fabiola (1918 ...
.
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The film's sets were designed by the
art director
Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...
Jacek Rotmil
Jacek Rotmil (1888–1944) was a Russian-born art director and production designer who worked on 100 films during his career Following the First World War, Rotmil entered the booming German film industry and worked prolifically until 1933. Follow ...
.
Cast
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Mary Nolan as Micheline Bonnard
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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 app ...
as Lord Arthur Blythe
*
Livio Pavanelli
Livio Cesare Pavanelli (7 September 1881 – 29 April 1958) was an Italian film actor.
Pavanelli was born in Copparo, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy and died in Rome in 1958 at age 76.
Selected filmography
* ''Mariute'' (1918)
*''Fabiola (1918 ...
as Marquis
*
Camilla von Hollay as Mme. Richemond
*
Ida Wüst as Fürstin Wolkonski
*
Gertrud Arnold
Gertrude or Gertrud may refer to:
Places In space
*Gertrude (crater), a crater on Uranus's moon Titania
* 710 Gertrud, a minor planet
Terrestrial placenames
* Gertrude, Arkansas
* Gertrude, Washington
*Gertrude, West Virginia
People
*Gertrude ( ...
as Lady Blythe
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Ferdinand Hart as Maler Tschakoff
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Lissy Arna as Mannequin
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Eva Speyer as Direktrice
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Alf Blütecher as Gibson
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Paul Morgan as Spieler
*
Siegfried Berisch
Siegfried Berisch (January 15, 1877 – October 4, 1933) was a German-Jewish actor active in the early 20th century. He was born in Boskovice, in the South Moravian Region, Czech Republic. Berisch was recognized for his work in theater and film, p ...
as Spieler
*
Oreste Bilancia
Oreste Bilancia (24 September 1881 – 31 October 1945) was an Italian film actor.
Born in Catania, Sicily, he was a star of Italian films in the silent era. He worked during the 1920s in Weimar Germany, which had the largest European film ind ...
as Spieler
References
Bibliography
* Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Scarecrow Press, 2008.
External links
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1926 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
Films directed by Victor Janson
Films based on German novels
National Film films
German black-and-white films
1926 comedy films
Silent German comedy films
1920s German films
1920s German-language films
German-language comedy films
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