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Herbert Lippschitz
Herbert Lippschitz (1904–1972) was a German art director. He rose to prominence during the Weimar Republic in the early sound era. The Jewish Lippschitz was forced to leave Germany following the rise of the Nazi Party to power in 1933. This largely halted his career although he was sporadically involved in films in a variety of different countries. He is sometimes credited as Herbert O. Phillips. Selected filmography * '' The Citadel of Warsaw'' (1930) * ''Express 13'' (1931) * '' I Go Out and You Stay Here'' (1931) * '' The Secret of the Red Cat'' (1931) * '' A Crafty Youth'' (1931) * '' You Will Be My Wife'' (1932) * '' At Your Orders, Sergeant'' (1932) * ''Spoiling the Game'' (1932) * ''Crime Reporter Holm'' (1932) * '' Two Heavenly Blue Eyes'' (1932) * ''And the Plains Are Gleaming'' (1933) * '' Wild Cattle'' (1934) * ''Hit and Run In traffic laws, a hit and run or a hit-and-run is the criminal act of causing a traffic collision and not stopping afterwards. It is conside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, highest population within its city limits of any city in the European Union. The city is also one of the states of Germany, being the List of German states by area, third smallest state in the country by area. Berlin is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, and Brandenburg's capital Potsdam is nearby. The urban area of Berlin has a population of over 4.6 million and is therefore the most populous urban area in Germany. The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region, as well as the List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP, fifth-biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Crafty Youth
''A Crafty Youth'' (German: ''Ein ausgekochter Junge'') is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Erich Schönfelder and starring Julius Falkenstein, Sig Arno and Olly Gebauer.Churton p.92 It was shot at the Grunewald Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Herbert Lippschitz. It premiered in Hamburg in October 1931 and in Berlin the following month. Synopsis Ignaz Fischbein, an employee in a fashion store, is hypnotised by a magician into believing that is married to Mizzi, a girl he has just met and the two proceed to take a holiday in Bavaria. There he encounters his boss, on a trip with his mistress posing as his wife, and the real husband of Mizzi. Cast * Julius Falkenstein as Adolf Strohbach, besitzer eines Modelhauses * Sig Arno as Ignaz Fischbein, sein Hausdiener * Paul Westermeier as Paul Kausulke, Bierkutscher * Olly Gebauer as Mizzi, seine Braut * Albert Paulig as Brahmaputra, ein Hypnotiseur * Henry Bender as Hugo Kunke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Art Directors
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1972 Deaths
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, mean solar time [the legal time scale], its duration was 31622401.141 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or Ephemeris Time), which is slightly shorter than 1908 in science#Astronomy, 1908). Events January * January 1 – Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations. * January 4 – The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395). * January 7 – Iberia Airlines Flight 602 crashes into a 462-meter peak on the island of Ibiza; 104 are killed. * January 9 – The RMS Queen Elizabeth, RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' catches fire and sinks in Hong Kong's Victoria harbor while undergoing conversion to a floating university. * January 10 – Independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to Bangladesh after s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1904 Births
Events January * January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''. * January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. * January 12 – The Herero Wars in German South West Africa begin. * January 17 – Anton Chekhov's last play, ''The Cherry Orchard'' («Вишнëвый сад», ''Vishnevyi sad''), opens at the Moscow Art Theatre directed by Constantin Stanislavski, 6 month's before the author's death. * January 23 – The Ålesund fire destroys most buildings in the town of Ålesund, Norway, leaving about 10,000 people without shelter. * January 25 – Halford Mackinder presents a paper on "The Geographical Pivot of History" to the Royal Geographical Society of London in which he formulates the Heartland Theory, originating the study of geopolitics. February * February 7 – The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland, destroys over 1,500 build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hit And Run (1957 Film)
''Hit and Run'' is a 1957 American drama film noir directed by Hugo Haas starring Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, and Vince Edwards. The movie was Moore's final film appearance. She gained popularity earlier in the 1950s in B-movie film noirs released by Columbia Pictures, for which Moore was a contract player. Plot Gus Hilmer, a moneyed garage, property and junkyard owner, falls in love with and marries a showgirl named Julie who is many years younger than himself. This causes tension between Hilmer and Frankie, Gus's young auto mechanic employee whom he has befriended, and treats like a son. In due course, Frank and Julie develop an emotional attachment. Frank decides they must get rid of her husband. On a dark, remote road, Frankie runs down Gus with a car, killing him. He and Julie are free to be together and run the garage, although Julie is very disturbed by the murder, retreats from the relationship with Frank and begins drinking heavily. When Gus' twin brother turns up, thin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Cattle (film)
''Wild Cattle'' (Portuguese: ''Gado Bravo'') is a 1934 Portuguese romantic comedy film directed by António Lopes Ribeiro and Max Nosseck and starring Nita Brandao, Olly Gebauer and Mariana Alves.Vieira p.82 A number of those employed on the film were exiles from Nazi Germany. The film's sets were designed by the art director Herbert Lippschitz. Cast * Nita Brandao as Branca * Olly Gebauer as Nina * Mariana Alves as Mariana * Raul de Carvalho as Manuel Garrido * Arthur Duarte as Arthur Fernandes * Sig Arno Sig Arno (born Siegfried Aron; 27 December 1895 – 17 August 1975) was a German-Jewish film actor who appeared in such films as '' Pardon My Sarong'' and '' The Mummy's Hand''. He may be best remembered from '' The Palm Beach Story'' (1942) as T ... as Jackson * Alberto Reis as Pascoal * Armando Machado as Joaquim * José Santos as Taberneiro * Falcau * Baltasar de Azevedo * António Silva References Bibliography * Vieira, Patricia. ''Por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And The Plains Are Gleaming
''And the Plains Are Gleaming'' () is a 1933 German-Hungarian drama film directed by Heinz Hille and starring Rosy Barsony, Károly Sugar and Wolf Albach-Retty.Salwolke p. 322 It was shot at the Hunnia Film Studios, Hunnia Studios in Budapest. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Herbert Lippschitz and Márton Vincze. A separate Hungarian-language version ''The Old Scoundrel'' was also made. Cast * Rosy Barsony as Baroneß Maria Inockay * Károly Sugar as Kaspar Borly, Gutsverwalter * Wolf Albach-Retty as Peter Borly, Husarenleutnant * Tibor Halmay as Graf Balassa, Leutnant * Magda Kun as Magda, Marias Freundin * Heinz Salfner as Baron Inokay * Hansi Arnstaedt as Baronin Inokay * Olga Limburg as Gräfin Balassa * Hans Zesch-Ballot as Thury * Béla Venczel as General Draskoczy * Franz Göbels as Untersuchungsrichter * Emilia Étsy as Frau Perkàl * Tivadar Bilicsi as 1. Weinreisender * Hugó Déri as 2. Weinreisender * Karl Bischof (actor), Karl Bischof * Isabella von ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Heavenly Blue Eyes
''Two Heavenly Blue Eyes'' or ''Two Sky Blue Eyes'' (German: ''Zwei himmelblaue Augen'') is a 1932 German musical comedy film directed by Johannes Meyer and starring Charlotte Ander, Hermann Thimig and Theo Lingen. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin.Klaus p.282 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Herbert O. Phillips. Cast * Charlotte Ander as Sie * Hermann Thimig as Er * Theo Lingen as Mr. Bottlekeeper * Ida Wüst as Mrs. Thomas, seine Schwester * Eva Schmid-Kayser as Ellen, ihre Tochter * Sigi Hofer as Schnorrberger * Julius Falkenstein as Gerichtsvollzieher Maschke * Luigi Bernauer as Der Barsänger * Karl Junge-Swinburne Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl of Austria, last Austrian Emperor * Karl (footballer) (born 1993), Karl Cachoe ... as Der Hoteldirektor * Bruno Steinwald as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Reporter Holm
''Crime Reporter Holm'' () is a 1932 German mystery film directed by Erich Engels and starring Hermann Speelmans, Elga Brink and Julius Falkenstein.Parish & Canham p. 103 It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Herbert Lippschitz. Location shooting took place around Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria. Synopsis At a hotel in a resort town in the Bavarian Alps, a retired district attorney from Chicago is shot dead. Crime reporter Peter Holm is on the spot and joins in the murder investigation. Cast * Hermann Speelmans as Peter Holm * Julius Falkenstein as Professor Caesar Cicero Nebelthau * Elga Brink as Carla Garden, Tänzerin * Anny Schwarz as Marie * Harry Hardt * Erik Wirl * Alfred Beierle * Hugo Flink * Gerhard Bienert * Gerhard Dammann * Karl Klöckner (actor), Karl Klöckner * Ossy Kratz-Corell References Bibliography * James Robert Parish & Kingsley Canham. ''Film Directors Guide: Wester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spoiling The Game
''Spoiling the Game'' (German: ''Strich durch die Rechnung'') is a 1932 German comedy film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Heinz Rühmann, Toni van Eyck, and Hermann Speelmans.Wadlman p.46 Its hero is a young cyclist who enters a race. It was made by German's largest film company UFA and shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Herbert Lippschitz. A separate French-language version ' was also released. Cast * Heinz Rühmann as Willy Streblow - Rennfahrer * Toni van Eyck as Hanni * Hermann Speelmans as Erwin Banz - Rennfahrer * Margarete Kupfer as Mutter Streblow * Jakob Tiedtke as Spengler - Fahrradhändler * Gustl Gstettenbaur as Gustl Spengler - sein Sohn * Ludwig Stössel * Flockina von Platen as Gina Paradies * Fritz Odemar as Lißmann - Prokurist * Harry Hardt as Manuel Rodriguet - Rennfahrer * Otto Wallburg as Gottfried Paradies * Fritz Kampers as Fritz Wagmüller - Willys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
At Your Orders, Sergeant
''At Your Orders, Sergeant'' () is a 1932 German comedy film directed by Erich Schönfelder and starring Ralph Arthur Roberts, Ida Wüst and Margot Landa. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Herbert Lippschitz. It is a military farce set in the pre-First World War-era German Army. Cast *Ralph Arthur Roberts *Ida Wüst *Margot Walter *Emmy Sturm *Henry Bender *Albert Paulig *Harry Halm *Paul Westermeier *Hermann Speelmans Hermann Speelmans (14 August 1906 – 9 February 1960) was a German stage and film actor.Capua p. 120 Selected filmography * '' Her Dark Secret'' (1929) - Emil * ''Diana'' (1930) * ''There Is a Woman Who Never Forgets You'' (1930) * '' Danton'' ... *Lotte Werkmeister References Bibliography * Klaus, Ulrich J. ''Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1932''. Klaus-Archiv, 1988. External links * 1930s historical comedy films German historical comedy films Films of the Weimar R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
