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Serenissimus And The Last Virgin
''Serenissimus and the Last Virgin'' (German:''Serenissimus und die letzte Jungfrau'') is a 1928 German silent film directed by Leo Mittler and starring Hans Junkermann, Adolphe Engers and Adele Sandrock.Gerhard Lamprecht. ''Deutsche Stummfilme, Volume 9'' p.760 The film's art direction was by Kurt Richter. Cast * Hans Junkermann as Serenissimus * Adolphe Engers as Kindermann * Adele Sandrock as Fürstin-Tante, der Schrecken von Luxenstein * Ernö Verebes as Bob, Tanz-Adjutant * Margot Landa as Dina * Teddy Bill as Teddy, Reporter * Yvette Darnys as Yvette * Sig Arno as Clement * Max Schreck as Finanzminister von Krampf * Leopold von Ledebur as Notar Grünsprecht * Martin Wolfgang as Brillant, Theateragent * Ludwig Stössel Ludwig Stössel (12 February 1883 – 29 January 1973) was an Austrian actor. He was one of many Jewish actors and actresses who were forced to flee Germany when the Nazis came to power in 1933. Biography Stössel beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Mittler
Leo Mittler (18 December 1893 – 16 May 1958) was an Austrian playwright, screenwriter and film director. Mittler was born in Vienna to a Jewish family. He attended the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, University of Music and Performing Arts and worked as a playwright and director in the German theatre. Mittler then switched to work in the German film industry during the silent era. Mittler's best known film as director was ''Beyond the Street'' (1929), a "street film" influenced by Soviet cinema.Prawer p.89 Mittler also spent time at the American company Paramount Pictures, Paramount's French subsidiary based at the Joinville Studios in Paris. Following the Nazi rise to power in 1933, Mittler spent many years in exile in several countries, including Britain and France, before settling in the United States during the Second World War. Mittler's career as a director had all but ended in the mid-1930s, after making the Stanley Lupino musical comedy ''Cheer Up (film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Landa
Margot Walter, also known as Margot Landa (4 October 1903 in Potsdam, Germany – April 1994 in Camden Town, London, England), was a German actress. Life and career Born in Potsdam near Berlin Walter became a regular member of the cast at the Hamburg Stadttheater in 1923. After a season at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg she moved to Berlin in 1925 after being contracted by the ''Deutsches Künstlertheater Berlin'' (German Artist Theatre Berlin), one of the several Berlin theatres run by successful Jewish theatrical producer . Her usual characters were the ingenue and the soubrette. The following year (1926) her film career started when she was discovered by Reinhold Schünzel. Margot Walter played mainly happy-go-lucky teenage girls in comedies, romantic comedies and farces which were constantly on an insignificant artistic level. Those were topics popular with the audience during the period of radical change from silent to sound movies. Margot Walter contracted leading and mai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Silent Feature Films
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Films Directed By Leo Mittler
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. Etymology and alternative terms The name "film" originally referred to the thin layer of photochemical emulsion on the celluloid strip that used to be the actual medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion-picture, including "picture", "picture show", "moving picture", "photoplay", and "flick". The most common term in the United States is "movie", while in Europe, "film" is preferred. Archaic terms include "animated pictures" and "animated photography". "Flick" is, in general a slang term, first recorded in 1926. It originates in the verb flicker, owing to the flickering appearance of early films. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Of The Weimar Republic
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. Etymology and alternative terms The name "film" originally referred to the thin layer of photochemical emulsion on the celluloid strip that used to be the actual medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion-picture, including "picture", "picture show", "moving picture", "photoplay", and "flick". The most common term in the United States is "movie", while in Europe, "film" is preferred. Archaic terms include "animated pictures" and "animated photography". "Flick" is, in general a slang term, first recorded in 1926. It originates in the verb flicker, owing to the flickering appearance of early films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 Films
The following is an overview of 1928 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Although some films released in 1928 had Sound film, sound, most were still Silent film, silent. This year is notable for the introduction of the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company, Mickey Mouse, in the animated short ''Steamboat Willie'', the first film to include a soundtrack completely created in post production. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1928 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *January 6 – The long-awaited Charlie Chaplin comedy ''The Circus (1928 film), The Circus'' premieres at the Strand Theatre (Manhattan), Strand Theatre in New York City. *April 21 – ''The Passion of Joan of Arc'' is released. * July 6 – ''Lights of New York (1928 film), Lights of New York'' (starring Helene Costello) is released by Warner Bros. It is the first "100% Talkie" feature film, in that dialog is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Stössel
Ludwig Stössel (12 February 1883 – 29 January 1973) was an Austrian actor. He was one of many Jewish actors and actresses who were forced to flee Germany when the Nazis came to power in 1933. Biography Stössel began performing on the stage in Austria and Germany when he was only 17. He soon became a successful character actor and performed on the most prestigious stages in Germany, among them the Max Reinhardt, the stage and the in Berlin. Stössel later became a movie actor. His first motion picture was a small role in the silent movie '' In der Heimat, da gibt's ein Wiedersehn!'' (''We'll Meet Again in the Homeland'') in 1926 at the age of 43. He appeared in about a half dozen silent movies in Germany and landed more roles with the arrival of sound. Stössel's first sound movie was Georg Wilhelm Pabst's '' Skandal um Eva'' (''Scandalous Eva'') in 1930. The following year, he appeared in Max Neufeld's ''Opernredoute'' ('' The Opera Ball''). Later that year, he appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Wolfgang
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Leopold Von Ledebur
Leopold von Ledebur (18 May 1876 – 22 August 1955) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''Carmen'' (1918) * '' The Serenyi'' (1918) * ''Midnight'' (1918) * '' The Foolish Heart'' (1919) * ''The Golden Lie'' (1919) * '' The Gambler'' (1919) * '' The Japanese Woman'' (1919) * '' The Loves of Käthe Keller'' (1919) * '' State Attorney Jordan'' (1919) * '' The Bodega of Los Cuerros'' (1919) * '' All Souls'' (1919) * ''Devoted Artists'' (1919) * '' The Carousel of Life'' (1919) * ''Only a Servant'' (1919) * ''The Last Sun Son'' (1919) * '' The Fairy of Saint Ménard'' (1919) * '' The Enchanted Princess'' (1919) * '' Die Spieler'' (1920) * '' Christian Wahnschaffe'' (1920) * '' In the Whirl of Life'' (1920) * '' World by the Throat'' (1920) * '' The Skull of Pharaoh's Daughter'' (1920) * '' Waves of Life and Love'' (1921) * '' The Adventure of Doctor Kircheisen'' (1921) * '' Count Varenne's Lover'' (1921) * '' The Maharaja's Favourite Wife'' (1921) * '' The Hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Schreck
Friedrich Gustav Maximilian Schreck Eickhoff, Stefan. 2007 (6 September 1879 – 20 February 1936), Walk, Ines. 2006. known professionally as Max Schreck, was a German actor, best known for his lead role as the vampire Count Orlok in the film '' Nosferatu'' (1922). Early life Max Schreck was born in Berlin-Friedenau, on 6 September 1879. Six years later, his father bought a house in the independent rural community of Friedenau, then part of the district of Teltow. He was baptized at St. Matthew's Church in Berlin. Schreck's father did not approve of his son's ever-growing enthusiasm for theatre. His mother provided the boy with money, which he secretly used for acting lessons, although only after the death of his father did he attend drama school. After graduating, he travelled briefly across the country with poet and dramatist Demetrius Schrutz. Schreck had engagements in Mulhouse, Meseritz, Speyer, Rudolstadt, Erfurt and Weissenfels, and his first extended stay at T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Toto, the nonsense-talking, mustachioed man who hopelessly pursues Mary Astor's Princess Centimillia. Biography Arno was born in Hamburg, Germany. Before beginning to make films in 1920, he was well-known in Germany as a stage comedian.Erickson, HaBiography (Allmovie) He acted in 90 films in Germany – including G.W. Pabst's '' Pandora's Box'' with Louise Brooks – playing primarily comic roles, then he left Germany in 1933 due to the rise of Adolf Hitler. He worked in Europe until 1939 when he moved to Hollywood. During the next 20 years he appeared in over 50 films, often playing waiters, maitre d's and "funny Europeans". Arno appeared three times on Broadway, notably in the musical '' Song of Norway'' and the play ''Time Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvette Darnys
Yvette (, ) is a feminine given name, the French feminine form of Yves, which means yew or archer in some cases. Variations * Catalan: Ivet * Czech: Yveta * Dutch: Yvette, Yvet * English: Yvette, Yvet, Yvett * French: Yvet, Yvette * German: Yvet, Yvett, Ivet * Greek: Yvet * Hungarian: Ivett * Italian: Ivette * Polish: Iweta * Portuguese: Ivete * Russian: Иветта (Ivetta) * Spanish: Ivette, Iveth * Swedish: Yvet, Ivet * Ukrainian: Іветта (Ivetta) Name days *Czech Republic: ''7 June'' *Hungary: ''13 January'', ''6 May'' and ''29 June'' *Poland: ''13 January'' *Slovakia: ''27 May'' *Bulgaria: ''24 June'' ("Eniovden") *Latvia: 12 December Notable people *Yvette Alexander (born 1961), U.S. politician *Yvette Andréyor (1891–1962), French silent film actress * Yvette Baker (born 1968), British orienteer *Yvette Barbaza (1914–2009), French geographer *Yvette Biro, Hungarian essayist, screenwriter, and professor emerita *Yvetta Blanarovičová, Slovak actr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
