''Lemke's Widow'' (German: ''Lemkes sel. Witwe'') is a 1928 German
silent comedy film
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directed by
Carl Boese
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Selected filmography
* ''Farmer Borchardt'' (1917)
* ''Donna Luci ...
.
[Goble p.835] It was shot at the
National Studios
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in
Berlin
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. The film's sets were designed by
Karl Machus
Karl Machus (1884–1944) was a German art director. Along with Erich Zander he designed the sets for most of the films made by director Veit Harlan during the Nazi era.Noack p.145
Selected filmography
* ''Prince Cuckoo'' (1919)
* '' Blonde Poiso ...
. The film was
remade in 1957 with
Grethe Weiser
Grethe Weiser (; 27 February 1903 – 2 October 1970) was a German actress.
Biography
Born in Hanover, she spent her childhood in Dresden. She escaped from her dominant and sometimes violent father by marrying a Jewish confectionery manufactu ...
in the title role.
Cast
In alphabetical order
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Lissy Arna
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*
Hannelore Benzinger
*
Gerhard Dammann
Gerhard Dammann (30 March 1883 – 21 February 1946) was a German film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' The Man in the Cellar'' (1914)
* '' Under the Lantern'' (1928)
* '' Eva in Silk'' (1928)
* '' Lemke's Widow'' (1928)
* '' When the Mother an ...
*
Josefine Dora
Josefine Dora (born Isidora Emilie Friese; 13 November 1867 – 28 May 1944) was an Austrian stage and film actress. She appeared in over 100 films, generally in supporting roles such as in '' The Virtuous Sinner'' (1931).Prawer p.137
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*
Harry Grunwald
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Fritz Kampers
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Fritz Kampers was the son of a Munich hotel owner, spent his early childhood in Garmisch-Partenk ...
*
Margarete Kupfer
Margarete Kupfer (born Margarete Kupferschmid; 10 April 1881 – 11 May 1953) was a German actress.
Partial filmography
* '' The Canned Bride'' (1915)
* '' Frau Eva'' (1916)
* '' The Queen's Secretary'' (1916)
* '' When Four Do the Same'' (1917 ...
*
Max Maximilian
Max Maximilian (born Franz Kuhn; 23 September 1885 – 25 June 1930)Landesarchiv Berlin, Sterberegister StA Schöneweide, Nr. 196/1930 was a German singer, actor and director.Waldman p.141
Career
Maximilian was born in Cologne and began his career ...
*
Sophie Pagay
Sophie Berg Pagay (22 April 1860 – 23 January 1937) was an Austrian actress.
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She was worn in Brno. She began acting as a child, and went to Berlin to perform on stage in 1887. She married actor Hans Pagay.
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* ' ...
*
Hermann Picha
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*
Frida Richard
Frida Richard (born Friederike Raithel, 1 November 1873 – 12 September 1946) was an Austrian actress. She was a prolific actress in both the silent and sound eras.
Selected filmography
* ''The Sin of Helga Arndt'' (1916)
* '' The Queen's Lov ...
*
Gustav Rickelt
Gustav Rickelt (1862–1946) was a German stage and film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Earth Spirit'' (1923)
* '' The Wiskottens'' (1926)
* '' Weekend Magic'' (1927)
* '' Lemke's Widow'' (1928)
* '' Youth of the Big City'' (1929)
* '' Bobby, ...
*
Paul Westermeier
Paul Westermeier (9 July 1892 – 17 October 1972) was a German film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Wedding in the Eccentric Club'' (1917)
* '' Agnes Arnau and Her Three Suitors'' (1918)
* '' About the Son'' (1921)
* '' Memoirs of a Film Act ...
*
Emmy Wyda
Emmy Wyda (2 March 1876 – 22 January 1942) was a German actress. She appeared in more than eighty films from 1913 to 1941.
Selected filmography
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1876 births
1942 deaths
Burials at Stahnsdorf South-West ...
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Wolfgang Zilzer
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Zilzer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to German-Jewish emigrant Max Zilzer, who was employed at the ...
References
Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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1928 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
Films directed by Carl Boese
German black-and-white films
National Film films
1928 comedy films
German comedy films
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