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Petra Unkel
Petra Unkel (3 March 1925 – 2001), also known as Petra Unkel-Klinder, was a Hungarian-born actress of German film, singer, voice actress, radio spokesperson and cabaret artist, who was active in the industry from 1929 until 1958. Life and career Unkel was born in Budapest, in what was then the Kingdom of Hungary, as the daughter of opera tenor Petra Unkel (1880–1942), Unkel started became her career as a child star. She made her debut appearance on screen in 1929 as a four-year-old during the silent film era, in '' Napoleon at Saint Helena'', starring Werner Krauss as Napoleon. Her first starring role came three years after in the 1932, operetta film '' Melody of Love''. Making the successful transition as an adult star, she appeared in films for the next four decades, with her final screen appearance in 1958. From 1946 she also appeared as a performer and singer in cabaret. As a voice artist she lent herself to becoming a radio spokeswoman, and provided voices for such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, second-largest city on the river Danube. The estimated population of the city in 2025 is 1,782,240. This includes the city's population and surrounding suburban areas, over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a List of cities and towns of Hungary, city and Counties of Hungary, municipality, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,019,479. It is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celts, Celtic settlement transformed into the Ancient Rome, Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Pannonia Inferior, Lower Pannonia. The Hungarian p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple Black (born Shirley Jane Temple; April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat, who was Hollywood's number-one box-office draw as a child actress from 1934 to 1938. Later, she was named United States Ambassador to Ghana and United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakia, and also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States. Temple began her film career in 1931 when she was three years old and became well-known for her performance in ''Bright Eyes (1934 film), Bright Eyes'', released in 1934. She won a special Academy Juvenile Award, Juvenile Academy Award in February 1935 for her outstanding contribution as a juvenile performer in motion pictures during 1934 and continued to appear in popular films through the remainder of the 1930s, although her subsequent films became less popular as she grew older. She appeared in her last film, ''A Kiss for Corliss'', in 1949.Windeler 26 She began her diplomatic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sensation In San Remo
''Sensation in San Remo'' is a 1951 West German musical comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Marika Rökk, Peter Pasetti and Ewald Balser. It was one of Rökk's most successful post-war films.Marshall, Bill & Stillwell, Robynn. ''Musicals: Hollywood and Beyond''. Intellect Books, 2000. p. 85. . The film is partly set at the Sanremo Festival in Italy. It was shot at the Bendestorf Studios with location shooting taking place on the Italian Riviera in the vicinity of Sanremo. It was made in Agfacolor. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Kettelhut. Synopsis Cornelia is a respectable but prudish teacher in a girls' school by day and at night a performer in nightclubs. She has only taken this second job in order to raise money to help her family, but keeps it secret from both them and her headmaster. Cornelia falls in love with a young composer and accompanies him on a tour of the Italian resorts, where she encounters her headmaster who is there atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady In Black (1951 Film)
''The Lady in Black'' () is a 1951 West German crime film directed by Erich Engels and starring Paul Hartmann, Mady Rahl and Rudolf Prack.Bock & Bergfelder p.374 It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Mellin. Cast * Paul Hartmann as Frederik Royce * Mady Rahl as Bianca Monnier * Rudolf Prack as Nils Corbett * Harald Paulsen as 'Fürst' Balbanoff * Inge Egger as Ann * Franz Schafheitlin as Chefinspektor Marshall * Ernst Fritz Fürbringer as Bankier Petterson * Josefin Kipper as Carla Royce * Rolf von Nauckhoff as Henry Richards * Gertrud Wolle as Frau Dalström * Toni Treutler as Frau Milovic * Liesl Karlstadt as Frau Bogota * Rudolf Schündler as Polizeiinspektor Polter * Ludwig Schmidseder as Herr Bogota * Ulrich Folkmar as Polizeiinspektor Bonden * Petra Unkel Petra Unkel (3 March 1925 – 2001), also known as Petra Unkel-Klinder, was a Hungarian-born actress of German film, singer, voice actress, radio spoke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unknown Sender (film)
''Unknown Sender'' () is a 1950 West German comedy film directed by Ákos Ráthonyi and starring Henny Porten, Bruni Löbel and Cornell Borchers.Parish p. 244 It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Mathias Matthies. Cast * Henny Porten as Direktorin * Bruni Löbel as Magda Lehmann * Cornell Borchers as Dr. Elisabeth Markert * Käthe Haack as Frau Lehmann * Ursula Herking as Frau Bock * Marina Ried as Adele * Hans Richter (actor), Hans Richter as Dr. Alfred Braun * Volker von Collande as Fredy Brown * Paul Kemp (actor), Paul Kemp as Schuldiener Bock * Hubert von Meyerinck as Schmoll, Lehrer * Rudolf Platte as Lehrer Zirbel * Albert Florath as Professor Wagner * Willy Maertens as Herr Lehmann * Friedl Rostock as Dora * Ingeborg Körner as Brigitte * Ann Höling as Edith * Ilse Zielstorff as Rosemarie * Katharina von Miculicz-Radesci as Eva * Petra Unkel as Wilma * Ilse Gottburg as Claire * Gustl Busch as Stine * Änne Bruck a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artists' Blood
''Artists' Blood'' () is a 1949 West German comedy film directed by Wolfgang Wehrum and starring Hans Richter, Dorit Kreysler and Fritz Odemar.Baer p. 72 It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg and on location in mountain resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Kurt Herlth and Carl Ludwig Kirmse. Synopsis A successful clown A clown is a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an Improvisational theatre#Comedy, open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct cosmetics, makeup or costume, costuming and reversing social norm, folkway-norms. The art of ... wants to marry the daughter of a factory owner, but his prospective father-in-law doesn't want a circus performer in the family and insists that he takes a job at the factory. With a heavy heart he agrees, but then discovering a doppelganger he persuades him to take his place. Confusion soon arises between them. Cast * Hans Richter as Clown A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hello, Fraulein!
''Hello, Fraulein!'' () is a 1949 German musical film directed by Rudolf Jugert and starring Margot Hielscher, Hans Söhnker and Peter van Eyck. It was made by the Munich-based company Bavaria Film in what would shortly become West Germany. It marked the German debut of van Eyck who had actually been born in Pomerania but had spent many years in the United States, leading him to be promoted in the film's publicity as an American actor. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Mellin. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's music combines elements of American big band jazz and German folk music.Davidson & Hake p. 49 Synopsis In Southern Germany in the months after the end of the Second World War, the commander of American forces occupying a German town tries to promote friendship with the locals by organising a musical show with the assistance of a female music student who has recently returned from entertaining German soldiers on the Eastern Front ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Court Concert (1948 Film)
''The Court Concert'' () is a 1948 German musical comedy film written and directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Elfie Mayerhofer, Hans Nielsen and Erich Ponto. In the United States it was released as ''Palace Scandal''. It is based on the 1935 musical comedy ''The Court Concert'' (music: Edmund Nick) which Verhoeven had co-written. A previous film version was made in 1936 and directed by Douglas Sirk. The remake was shot using agfacolor. Both productions are in the tradition of operetta films. It was produced by the major studio Tobis Film during 1944, but was not given a formal release until 1948 in Sweden and then East and West Germany the following year. The art director Otto Erdmann worked on the film's sets. Location shooting took place in Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising appr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Time With You
''The Time with You'' () is a 1948 German drama film directed by George Hurdalek and starring Eva Ingeborg Scholz, Heinz Klingenberg and Gisela Trowe.Bock & Bergfelder p. 79 It was made at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gerhard Ladner. Synopsis Following the Second World War, prisoner of war Konrad Berger returns home to find that his wife has died and he has to look after his two young sons. Broken by the war years, the former construction business owner considers giving them up for adoption. However, Johanna, a displaced person working in a laundry and barely more than girl herself, offers to marry the much older man if he keeps his sons. The marriage of convenience A marriage of convenience is a marriage contracted for reasons other than that of love and commitment. Instead, such a marriage is entered into for personal gain, or some other sort of strategic purpose, such as a political marriage. Cases whe ... is threaten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Private Life Of Louis XIV
''The Private Life of Louis XIV'' or ''Liselotte of the Palatinate'' (German: ''Liselotte von der Pfalz'') is a 1935 German historical film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Renate Müller, Eugen Klöpfer and Maria Krahn.Hake p.145 It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin and premiered at the city's UFA-Palast am Zoo. The sets were designed by the art directors Walter Haag and Franz Schroedter. The film's English language release title is a reference to the hit British film ''The Private Life of Henry VIII'' (1933). The film portrays the life of the Heidelberg-born Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine, who married into the French royal family during the reign of Louis XIV. She was also the subject of a 1966 biopic in which she was played by Heidelinde Weis Heidelinde Weis (17 September 1940 – 24 November 2023) was an Austrian actress. Weis died on 24 November 2023, at the age of 83. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Saint And Her Fool (1935 Film)
''The Saint and Her Fool'' (German: ''Die Heilige und ihr Narr'') is a 1935 German drama film directed by Hans Deppe and Paul May and starring Friedrich Ulmer, Lola Chlud and Hansi Knoteck. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Artur Günther and Hans Kuhnert. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and on location around Langenburg Castle and Oberstdorf in Bavaria. Along with a 1928 German silent film and a 1957 Austrian film, it was one of three film adaptations of the novel of the same title by Agnes Günther.Goble p.793 Cast * Friedrich Ulmer as Georg, Fürst v. Brauneck * Lola Chlud as Charlotte, Fürstin v. Brauneck * Hansi Knoteck as Prinzessin Rosmarie * Hans Stüwe as Graf Harro Thorstein * Carl Ehrhardt-Hardt as Hans Friedrich, Musiker * F.W. Schröder-Schrom as Medizinalrat * Werner Pledath as Domprobst * Beppo Brem as Christoph * Hanni Weisse * Petra Unkel as Rosemarie als Kind * Lillian Berley * Jeanette Bethge * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Valiant Navigator
''The Valiant Navigator'' or ''The Brave Seafarer'' (German: ''Der mutige Seefahrer'') is a 1935 German comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Paul Kemp, Lucie Englisch and Maria Krahn.Waldman p.101 It was based on a play by Georg Kaiser. The 1940 American film ''The Ghost Comes Home'' is an adaption of the 1935 German film. Synopsis A young man plans to emigrate to the United States with his fiancée but becomes extremely fearful about the ocean crossing due to a local superstition. Eventually he decides to stay at home and marry his girl. Cast * Paul Kemp as Berthold Jebs * Lucie Englisch as Grete Holm * Maria Krahn as Paula Jebs * Harald Paulsen as Otto Jebs * Otto Wernicke as Bäckermeister Holm * Carsta Löck as Tine Peterson * Harry Frank as Joe Jefferson * Paul Westermeier as Timm, ein Landstreicher * Hans Mierendorff as Jan, ein Matrose * Paul Beckers * Elli Blank * Rudolf Essek * Karl Harbacher * Oskar Höcker * Werner Pledath * Arth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
