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Flowers From Nice
''Flowers from Nice'' () is a 1936 Austrian musical comedy film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Erna Sack, Friedl Czepa and Karl Schönböck. It was shot at the Rosenhügel Studios in Vienna and on location around Nice on the French Riviera. The film's sets were designed by art directors Emil Stepanek and Julius von Borsody. The film premiered in Vienna in September 1936. In 1939 it was screened in the United States. The film is currently held at the Library of Congress. Cast * Erna Sack as Maria Castoldi * Friedl Czepa as Lisette * Karl Schönböck as Graf Ulrich von Traunstein * Paul Kemp as Rudi Hofer * Jane Tilden as Christl Niedermeyer * Hans Homma as Francois * Johanna Terwin as Frau Keller * Alfred Neugebauer Alfred Neugebauer (24 December 1888 – 14 September 1957) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * '' Money in the Streets'' (1922) * ''Money on the Street'' (1930) * '' Madame Bluebeard'' (1931) * '' Storm in a Water Glass'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusto Genina
Augusto Genina (28 January 1892 – 18 September 1957) was an Italian film pioneer. He was a movie producer and director. Biography Born in Rome, Genina was a drama critic and wrote comedies for the ''Il Mondo'' Magazine, under advise of Aldo de Benedetti switches to movies for the "Film d'Arte Italiana", that produces his first film "La moglie di sua eccellenza". In 1929 Genina moved to France. While there, he directed Louise Brooks in the early French talkie ''Miss Europe (1930 film), Miss Europe'', which was her only French film. He studied sound techniques and worked in France and Germany in same but alternate languages film versions which were filmed simultaneously, before his return to Italy. He won Venice Film Festival Mussolini's cup for Best Italian Film twice, in 1936 by ''Lo squadrone bianco'' and in 1940 by ''The Siege of the Alcazar'', both Propaganda of Fascist Italy, Fascist propaganda films. In 1953, he filmed ''Three Forbidden Stories'', another version of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna
Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. Its larger metropolitan area has a population of nearly 2.9 million, representing nearly one-third of the country's population. Vienna is the Culture of Austria, cultural, Economy of Austria, economic, and Politics of Austria, political center of the country, the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fifth-largest city by population in the European Union, and the most-populous of the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. The city lies on the eastern edge of the Vienna Woods (''Wienerwald''), the northeasternmost foothills of the Alps, that separate Vienna from the more western parts of Austria, at the transition to the Pannonian Basin. It sits on the Danube, and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1936 Films
The following is an overview of 1936 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1936 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *January 9 – Silent screen actor John Gilbert, perhaps best known for his appearances in films such as ''The Merry Widow'' and '' The Big Parade'', dies suddenly of a heart attack at his Bel Air home, aged 38. *February 15 – The first Republic serial, '' Darkest Africa'', is released. *May 29 – Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film, '' Fury'', starring Spencer Tracy and Bruce Cabot, is released. *September 14 – Film producer Irving Thalberg, often referred by many as the "Boy Wonder of Hollywood", dies from pneumonia at his home in Santa Monica, aged 37. Academy Awards * Best Picture: ''The Great Ziegfeld'' – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer * Best Director: Frank Capra – '' Mr. Deeds Goes to Town'' * Best Actor: Paul Muni – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Neugebauer
Alfred Neugebauer (24 December 1888 – 14 September 1957) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * '' Money in the Streets'' (1922) * ''Money on the Street'' (1930) * '' Madame Bluebeard'' (1931) * '' Storm in a Water Glass'' (1931) * '' The Prince of Arcadia'' (1932) * '' Our Emperor'' (1933) * '' The Secret of Cavelli'' (1934) * '' Spring Parade'' (1934) * '' A Precocious Girl'' (1934) * '' A Star Fell from Heaven'' (1934) * '' … nur ein Komödiant'' (1935) * '' The World's in Love'' (1935) * '' Everything for the Company'' (1935) * '' Heaven on Earth'' (1935) * ''Harvest'' (1936) * '' The Postman from Longjumeau'' (1936) * '' Flowers from Nice'' (1936) * '' Where the Lark Sings'' (1936) * '' Konzert in Tirol'' (1938) * '' Mirror of Life'' (1938) * ''Hotel Sacher'' (1939) * ''Madame Butterfly'' (1939) * '' A Mother's Love'' (1939) * '' Vienna Tales'' (1940) * ''Operetta'' (1940) * '' Seven Years Hard Luck'' (1940) * '' Love is Duty Free'' (1941) * '' Whom the Gods Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Terwin
Johanna Terwin (1884–1962) was a German stage and film actress.Styan p.89 In the theatre she appeared in works by the impresario Max Reinhardt. She appeared in around twenty films during the silent and sound eras. She was married to the Albanian-born actor Alessandro Moissi. Selected filmography * '' Laugh Bajazzo'' (1915) * ''Cain'' (1918) * '' The Spies'' (1919) * ''A Thousand for One Night'' (1933) * ''Harvest'' (1936) * ''Flowers from Nice'' (1936) * ''Premiere A premiere, also spelled première, (from , ) is the debut (first public presentation) of a work, i.e. play, film, dance, musical composition, or even a performer in that work. History Raymond F. Betts attributes the introduction of the ...'' (1937) References Bibliography * J. L. Styan. ''Max Reinhardt''. CUP Archive, 1982. External links * People from Kaiserslautern 1884 births 1962 deaths German film actresses German silent film actresses 20th-century German actresses German sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Homma
Hans Homma (1874–1943) was an Austrian stage and film actor. He also directed a number of silent films. Homma was known for his work at Vienna's Burgtheater.Shand p.222 Filmography Actor * '' Queen Draga'' (1920) - Dr. White * '' The Hands of Orlac'' (1924) - Dr. Serral * ''The Woman of Yesterday and Tomorrow'' (1928) * '' Modellhaus Crevette'' (1928) * ''Archduke John'' (1929) - Fürst Metternich, Staatskanzler * ''Die Dame auf der Banknote'' (1929) * '' The Monte Cristo of Prague'' (1929) - Examining Judge * '' Spring Parade'' (1934) - Ein Hofrat (uncredited) * '' Leap into Bliss'' (1934) - Braun - Geschäftsführer * '' The Secret of Cavelli'' (1934) - General von Ketterer * ''Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten'' (1935) - Herr Rainer, Pauls Vater * '' Last Love'' (1935) - Direktor der Wiener Oper * '' Her Highness Dances the Waltz'' (1935) - Fürst Franz von Hohenau * ''Unsterbliche Melodien'' (1936) - Director vom Theater an der Wien * ''Flowers from Nice ''Flowers from Nice'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Tilden
Jane Tilden, born as Marianne Wilhelmine Tuch, (1910–2002) was an Austrian actress who enjoyed a long career on stage and in films and television shows. She was born as Marianne Tuch in Aussig, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She was the sister of the cinematographer Walter Tuch. After making her debut on the stage in the early 1930s she appeared regularly in German and Austrian films during the Nazi era including the 1938 comedy '' The Blue Fox'' (1938).Waldman p.200 After the Second World War she worked regularly in film and television, increasingly in supporting roles. She was married three times, her husbands included the actor Erik Frey and composer Alexander Steinbrecher. Selected filmography * '' The Emperor's Candlesticks'' (1936) * '' Hannerl and Her Lovers'' (1936) * '' Flowers from Nice'' (1936) * '' The Blue Fox'' (1938) * '' Mirror of Life'' (1938) * '' Happiness is the Main Thing'' (1941) * ''Two Happy People ''Two Happy People'' () is a 1943 comedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Library Of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It also administers Copyright law of the United States, copyright law through the United States Copyright Office, and it houses the Congressional Research Service. Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the oldest Cultural policy of the United States, federal cultural institution in the United States. It is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill, adjacent to the United States Capitol, along with the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia, and additional storage facilities at Fort Meade, Fort George G. Meade and Cabin Branch in Hyattsville, Maryland. The library's functions are overseen by the librarian of Congress, and its buildings are maintained by the architect of the Capitol. The LOC is one of the List of largest libraries, largest libra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Von Borsody
Julius von Borsody (8 April 1892 in Vienna – 18 January 1960, also in Vienna) was an Austrian film architect and one of the most employed set designers in the Austrian and German cinemas of the late silent and early sound film periods. His younger brother, Eduard von Borsody, was a film director in Austria and Germany. He is also the great-uncle of German actress Suzanne von Borsody. Life Julius von Borsody attended the Munich Art Academy before he started in the film industry in 1917. He began his career with Sascha-Film in Vienna, but up to 1924 also worked with other film production companies. In 1920 he was the set designer for Paul Czinner's highly significant pre-Expressionist work, ''Inferno''. Together with Emil Stepanek and Artur Berger he was also responsible in Vienna, on the epics of Michael Curtiz and Alexander Korda, for the most spectacular sets ever constructed for an Austrian film, in particular the gigantic Temple of Sodom in ''Sodom und Gomorrha'' (1922), whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Stepanek
Emil Stepanek (21 February 1895 – 12 April 1945) was an Austrian set designer and film architect. Biography Stepanek was born in Vienna, the son of a carpenter, and received a training in stage set construction, in which he worked for several years. Between 1916 and 1918 he had to perform military service. After the end of World War I he returned to his work in theatres. In 1919 he had his first contact with the film industry. In the years that followed he often worked with the renowned film architects Julius von Borsody, Artur Berger and Alexander Ferenczy, particularly on the epic films of Sascha-Film directed by Alexander Korda and Michael Curtiz: ''Prinz und Bettelknabe'' (1920), '' Sodom und Gomorrha'' (1922), '' Die Sklavenkönigin'' (1924) and ''SalammbĂ´'' (1924). Stepanek remained in film set construction up to 1936, after which he worked in the area of executive film production. In 1944 he became director of the whole of set construction in the RosenhĂĽgel Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style(s) to use, and when to use 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 collective imagination while resolving conflicting agendas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
