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Madame Pompadour (1931 Film)
''Madame Pompadour'' () is a 1931 German historical musical film directed by Willi Wolff and starring Anny Ahlers, Kurt Gerron, and Walter Jankuhn. Part of the tradition of operetta films, it portrays the relationship between Madame de Pompadour and Louis XV of France. The film is not based on the operetta ''Madame Pompadour'' by Leo Fall. It was shot at the EFA Studios in Berlin while location filming took place at the Palace of Versailles.Klaus p.196-97 A separate French version ''A Caprice of Pompadour'' was also released. Cast * Anny Ahlers as Marquise von Pompadour *Kurt Gerron as Louis XV *Walter Jankuhn as Gaston de Méville *Ida Wüst as Frau von Estrade, her partner * Ernö Verebes as Marcel de Clermount, cadet *Irene Ambrus as Madelaine Biron, tutor *Fritz Odemar as Minister Maurepas * Hans Rameau as The Dauphin *Wilhelm Bendow as Mélange, Pompadour's secretary *Max Ehrlich as Cerf, court banker *Gustl Gstettenbaur Gustl Gstettenbaur (1 March 1914 – 20 Novembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Wolff
Willi Wolff (16 April 1883 – 6 April 1947) was a German screenwriter, film producer, and director. He was married to the silent film star Ellen Richter, whose films he often worked on. Selected filmography Director * ''Lola Montez, the King's Dancer'' (1922) * '' The Great Unknown'' (1924) * ''Flight Around the World'' (1925) * '' Shadows of the Metropolis'' (1925) * '' The Great Duchess'' (1926) * '' Maytime'' (1926) * '' The Imaginary Baron'' (1927) * '' The Most Beautiful Legs of Berlin'' (1927) * '' The Lady with the Tiger Skin'' (1927) * '' Heads Up, Charley'' (1927) * ''Moral'' (1928) * ''Immorality'' (1928) * '' The Woman Without Nerves'' (1930) * '' Police Spy 77'' (1930) * '' The Adventurer of Tunis'' (1931) * ''Madame Pompadour'' (1931) * ''A Caprice of Pompadour'' (1931) * '' The Secret of Johann Orth'' (1932) * '' Manolescu, Prince of Thieves'' (1933) Screenwriter * ''The Monastery of Sendomir'' (1919) * '' The Teahouse of the Ten Lotus Flowers'' (1919) * '' Out of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Fall
Leopold Fall (2 February 187316 September 1925) was an Austrian Kapellmeister and composer of operettas. Life Born in Olmütz (Olomouc), Leo (or Leopold) Fall was taught by his father Moritz Fall (1848–1922), a bandmaster and composer, who settled in Berlin. The younger Fall studied at the Vienna Conservatory before rejoining his father in Berlin. His teachers in Vienna were Robert Fuchs and Johann Nepomuk Fuchs. In 1895 he began a new career as an operetta conductor in Hamburg, and started to compose. From 1904 onwards he devoted himself to composition. While less successful than his contemporary Franz Lehár, he was nevertheless capable of producing melodious and well orchestrated work. After working in Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne he settled in Vienna in 1906, where he died. He is buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery. His brothers and Richard were also composers; both were murdered in the Nazi concentration camps. His best known operettas in the English-speaking world ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustl Gstettenbaur
Gustl Gstettenbaur (1 March 1914 – 20 November 1996) was a German stage, film and television actor. Born in Bavaria, Gustl Gstettenbaur began his career onstage as a child actor in 1927, at the age of thirteen. He went on to play a variety of juvenile roles in German films during the late silent film era. Gstettenbaur's career continued as an adult on stage, film and in television. Selected filmography * '' The Page Boy at the Golden Lion'' (1928) - Peter Pohlmann, Piccolo * '' Spione'' (1928) - Boy Who Helps No. 326 (uncredited) * '' Band of Thieves'' (1928) * '' Volga Volga'' (1928) - Kolka * '' Fight of the Tertia'' (1929) - Borst * ''Woman in the Moon'' (1929) - Gustav * '' Big City Children'' (1929) * '' The Mistress and her Servant'' (1929) - Hans * ''The Eccentric'' (1929) - Uhrmacherlehrling Toni * ''Delicatessen'' (1930) - Lehrling * '' Vienna, City of Song'' (1930) - Gustl, Pikkolo * '' Die zärtlichen Verwandten'' (1930) - Webers Sohn * ''Dolly Gets Ahead'' (1930) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Ehrlich
Max Michaelis Ehrlich (7 December 1892 – 1 October 1944) was a German Jewish actor, screenwriter, and director on the German theater, comedy and cabaret scene of the 1930s. Ehrlich began his career in the 1920s at various theatres, including leading roles in Max Reinhardt productions and revues. He appeared in 42 films, ten of which he directed, and on eight records. He wrote several books, including ''From Adelbert to Zilzer'', his best-selling humorous collection of stories and anecdotes about sixty-two of his best known show business friends and colleagues. Career in Nazi Germany In 1933, the National Socialists seized power and stopped Ehrlich and his other Jewish colleagues from working in Germany. As a result, he left for Vienna to appear with the Rudolf Nelson Revue. However, there too, Austrian anti-Semites interrupted the show with cries of "Jews, get out of Vienna." Consequently, the troupe left for The Netherlands, stopping en route for stage appearances in Switze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Bendow
Wilhelm Bendow (29 September 1884 – 29 May 1950) was a German film actor who appeared in many films during his career. Bendow made his debut in the 1913 film '' Aus eines Mannes Mädchenzeit''.Elsässer p.106 Selected filmography * '' Lust for Life'' (1922) * '' La Boheme'' (1923) * '' The Little Napoleon'' (1923) * '' Die Fledermaus'' (1923) * '' Wood Love'' (1925) * '' The Woman with That Certain Something'' (1925) * '' Chaste Susanne'' (1926) * '' The Brothers Schellenberg'' (1926) * '' We Belong to the Imperial-Royal Infantry Regiment'' (1926) * '' Roses from the South'' (1926) * '' The Divorcée'' (1926) * '' His Toughest Case'' (1926) * '' My Aunt, Your Aunt'' (1927) * '' The False Prince'' (1927) * '' A Crazy Night'' (1927) * '' Carnival Magic'' (1927) * '' Her Dark Secret'' (1929) * '' German Wine'' (1929) * '' The Tender Relatives'' (1930) * '' Alraune'' (1930) * '' A Gentleman for Hire'' (1930) * '' The Blonde Nightingale'' (1930) * '' The Emperor's Sweetheart'' (1931) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dauphin Of France
Dauphin of France (, also ; ), originally Dauphin of Viennois (''Dauphin de Viennois''), was the title given to the heir apparent to the throne of France from 1350 to 1791, and from 1824 to 1830. The word ''dauphin'' is French for dolphin and was the hereditary title of the ruler of the Dauphiné of Viennois. While early heirs were granted these lands to rule, eventually only the title was granted. History Guigues IV, Count of Vienne, had a dolphin on his coat of arms and was nicknamed ''le Dauphin''. The title of Dauphin de Viennois descended in his family until 1349, when Humbert II sold his seigneury, called the Dauphiné, to King Philippe VI on condition that the heir of France assume the title of ''le Dauphin''. The wife of the Dauphin was known as ''la Dauphine''. The first French prince called ''le Dauphin'' was Charles the Wise, later ascending to the throne as Charles V of France. The title was roughly equivalent to the Spanish '' Prince of Asturias'', the Por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Odemar
Fritz Odemar (13 January 1890 – 6 June 1955) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1927 and 1955. He was born in Hannover, Germany and died in Munich, West Germany. Odemar's father was the actor Fritz Odemar Sr. (Karl Julius Friedrich Odemar; 1858–1926). Selected filmography * '' The Merry Vineyard'' (1927) - Knuzius, Klärchens Verlobter * '' The Devious Path'' (1928) - Möller, Regierungsrat * ''The Last Fort'' (1929) - Lieutenant Brand * '' Crucified Girl'' (1929) * '' Napoleon at Saint Helena'' (1929) - Lt. Nichols * '' Scandalous Eva'' (1930) - Lämmerberg * '' The Song Is Ended'' (1930) - Der Verlager / The Editor * ' (1930) * '' The Stolen Face'' (1930) - Hempel * ''Petit officier... Adieu!'' (1930) - Teschner * '' Wibbel the Tailor'' (1931) - Fitzke * ''Madame Pompadour'' (1931) - Minister Maurepas * ''1914'' (1931) - Prince Lichnowsky * ''The Man in Search of His Murderer'' (1931) * '' Three Days of Love'' (1931) * '' The Merry Wiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ida Wüst
Ida Wüst (; 10 October 1884 – 4 October 1958) was a German stage and film actress whose career was prominent in the 1920s and 1930s with Universum Film AG (UFA). Life and career Little is known about Ida Wüst's early childhood. She discovered early the world of theater, and decided to make it her career. After attending secondary school in Frankfurt am Main, Wüst took acting lessons from Thessa Klinghammer and at the age of 16 received her first engagement at the StadtTheatre of Colmar, and further stage productions in Bromberg, and in 1904 performed extensively in Leipzig. In 1907 she became a member of the ensemble of the Lessing-Theater in Berlin, where she performed roles in ''Hosenrollen'' (roles in which women impersonate men in trousers), and comedies and became sought after actress. She befriended and married actor Bruno Kastner, with whom she began writing screenplays. The couple married in 1918, divorced in 1924, and had no children. Wüst appeared in the four-si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis XV
Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defined as his 13th birthday) in 1723, the kingdom was ruled by his grand-uncle Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, as Régence, Regent of France. André-Hercule de Fleury, Cardinal Fleury was chief minister from 1726 until his death in 1743, at which time the king took sole control of the kingdom. His reign of almost 59 years (from 1715 to 1774) was the second longest in the history of France, exceeded only by his predecessor, Louis XIV, who had ruled for 72 years (from 1643 to 1715). In 1748, Louis returned the Austrian Netherlands, won at the Battle of Fontenoy of 1745. He ceded New France in North America to Great Britain and Spain at the conclusion of the disastrous Seven Years' War in 1763. He incorporated the territories of the Duchy of Lorr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Caprice Of Pompadour
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palace Of Versailles
The Palace of Versailles ( ; ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, about west of Paris, in the Yvelines, Yvelines Department of Île-de-France, Île-de-France region in France. The palace is owned by the government of France and since 1995 has been managed, under the direction of the Ministry of Culture (France), French Ministry of Culture, by the Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles. About 15,000,000 people visit the palace, park, or gardens of Versailles every year, making it one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world. Louis XIII built a hunting lodge at Versailles in 1623. His successor, Louis XIV, expanded the château into a palace that went through several expansions in phases from 1661 to 1715. It was a favourite residence for both kings, and in 1682, Louis XIV moved the seat of his court and government to Versailles, making the palace the ''de fact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
