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The Night Without Pause
''The Night Without Pause'' () is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Andrew Marton and Franz Wenzler and starring Sig Arno, Camilla Horn and Max Adalbert.Waldman p. 193 It was made by the German subsidiary of Universal Pictures in partnership with Tobis Film. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by Fritz Maurischat and Gabriel Pellon. It is based on the farce ''Der keusche Lebemann'' by Ernst Bach and Franz Arnold, and was remade in 1952. Synopsis When his wife becomes suspicious that he is having an affair after discovering incriminating evidence, Julius Seipold manages to convince her that it is his innocuous assistant Max who is having a relationship. He invents a wild backstory about Max, which in turn fascinates Julius Seipold's daughter Gertie. Cast * Sig Arno as Max Stieglitz * Camilla Horn as Letta Larbo * Max Adalbert as Julius Seipold * Ida Wüst as Regine Seipold * Ilse Korseck as Gertie Seipold * Paul Richter as Walte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Marton
Andrew Marton (born Endre Marton; 26 January 1904 – 7 January 1992) was a Hungarian-American film director. In his career, he directed 39 films and television programs, and worked on 16 as a second unit director, including the chariot race in ''Ben-Hur (1959 film), Ben Hur'' (1959). Life and career Marton was born in Budapest, Hungary. After high-school graduation in 1922 he was taken by Alfréd Deésy to Vienna to work at Sascha-Film, mostly as an assistant editor. After a few months, he rose the attention of director Ernst Lubitsch, who convinced him to try Hollywood. Marton returned to Europe in 1927, and worked as the main editor of the Tobis Film, Tobis company in Berlin, and later as an assistant director in Vienna. He directed his ''Two O'Clock in the Morning'', first feature film, in 1929 in Great Britain. He joined a German expedition to Tibet in 1934, where he filmed ''Demon of the Himalayas''. Marton cited that he was Jewish as a reason that the film could not be rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannisthal Studios
The Johannisthal Studios were film studios located in the Berlin area of Johannisthal. Founded in 1920 on the site of a former airfield, they were a centre of production during the Weimar and Nazi eras. Nearly four hundred films were made at Johannistal during the silent period. The first production was the 1920 silent '' Verkommen'' starring Maria Zelenka. Sometimes known as the Jofa Studios, in 1929 they became the base of the newly established German major studio Tobis Film at the beginning of the sound era. After 1945 the studios fell into the Soviet Zone of Germany, and later into the Communist state of East Germany.Bergfelder p.24 The studios were used by the new monopoly film company DEFA. Although the first postwar German film '' The Murderers Are Among Us'' was shot at Johannisthal, they were used less than the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. It was often used for dubbing foreign films into German for their release. From the 1960s East German television increasingly use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Films
The following is an overview of 1931 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1931 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 5: RKO acquires the producing and distribution arm of Pathé for $4.6 million. * March 14: '' Alam Ara'', the first Indian-made sound film, premieres at the Majestic Cinema in Bombay. * June 20: Monogram Pictures releases its first film, ''Ships of Hate''. * July 7: Anti-competitive practices disclosed about certain distributors and producers in Canada. * November 17: E. R. Tinker elected president of Fox Films replacing Harley L. Clarke. * December 14: RKO refinancing plan approved. Best money stars '' Variety'' reported the following as the biggest male stars in the U.S. in alphabetical order although grouped George Arliss and Ronald Colman together as having equal ranking. The following were the biggest women ... [...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] |
Hans Richter (actor)
Hans Richter (12 January 1919 – 5 October 2008) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1931 and 1984, mostly in supporting roles. He was born in Brandenburg, Germany and died in Heppenheim, Germany. Life and career Hans Richter made his film debut as "Fliegender Hirsch" in Gerhard Lamprecht's ''Emil and the Detectives (1931 film), Emil and the Detectives'' (1931), based on the Emil and the Detectives, novel of the same name by Erich Kästner. In the following years, Richter become a popular juvenile actor; often playing clever, somewhat cheeky boys (a type similar to Mickey Rooney in the American film during the 1930s). When he reached legal age, he had appeared in over 50 films. After his supporting role as a lazy schoolboy in ''Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944 film), Die Feuerzangenbowle'' (1944), Richter got drafted into the German Wehrmacht and was also in war imprisonment for some time. After the World War, Richter worked as a cabaret artist an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Harbacher
Karl Harbacher (1879–1943) was an Austrian actor. Selected filmography * '' Miss Piccolo'' (1914) * '' No Sin on the Alpine Pastures'' (1915) * '' Fanny Elssler'' (1920) * '' Das blaue Duell'' (1920) * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * ''The Dance of Love and Happiness'' (1921) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1921) * '' Circus People'' (1922) * '' Yvette, the Fashion Princess'' (1922) * '' The Blonde Geisha'' (1923) * '' Old Heidelberg'' (1923) * '' The Woman on the Panther'' (1923) * '' Debit and Credit'' (1924) * ''New Year's Eve'' (1924) * '' By Order of Pompadour'' (1924) * '' The Venus of Montmartre'' (1925) * '' The Old Ballroom'' (1925) * '' The Salesgirl from the Fashion Store'' (1925) * '' Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * '' Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days'' (1925) * '' Struggle for the Soil'' (1925) * '' Golden Boy'' (1925) * '' The Woman with That Certain Something'' (1925) * '' Darling, Count the Cash'' (1926) * '' The Bank Crash of Unter den Linden'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annemarie Hase
Annemarie Hase (1900 – 1971) was a German actress and cabaret artist. She emerged as a star during the Weimar Republic, but because she was Jewish she faced increasing persecution following the Nazi takeover in 1933. In 1936 she went into exile in Britain, where she remained for the next decade. She was involved with various exile groups, and was employed by the BBC (for the German Service) during the Second World War where she worked alongside Bruno Adler. Following the Allied victory over the Nazis, and occupation of Germany she returned to Berlin. In 1947 she appeared in the rubble film '' And the Heavens Above Us'' alongside Hans Albers and Lotte Koch.Shandley p.211 She forged a career as a character actress, appearing in a number of East German films. She was known for her Socialist Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Stettner
Willy Stettner (1895–1961) was a German singer and stage and film actor.Wottrich p.166 Selected filmography * '' The Land of Smiles'' (1930) * '' How Do I Become Rich and Happy?'' (1930) * '' The Night Without Pause'' (1931) * '' Victoria and Her Hussar'' (1931) * '' Schubert's Dream of Spring'' (1931) * ''Quick'' (1932) * '' Daughter of the Regiment'' (1933) * '' Madame Wants No Children'' (1933) * ''A Thousand for One Night'' (1933) * '' Ball at the Savoy'' (1935) * ''Twilight Twilight is daylight illumination produced by diffuse sky radiation when the Sun is below the horizon as sunlight from the upper atmosphere is scattered in a way that illuminates both the Earth's lower atmosphere and also the Earth's surf ...'' (1940) * '' The Last Man'' (1955) References Bibliography * Erika Wottrich. ''Deutsche Universal.: Transatlantische Verleih- und Produktionsstrategien eines Hollywood-Studios in den 20er und 30er Jahren.''. 2001. External links * Male ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Richter
Paul Richter (1 April 1895 – 30 December 1961) was an Austrian film actor. He owed his great popularity in German films of the silent era largely to the directors Joe May and Fritz Lang. Biography Richter made his film debut right before World War I in ''Der Sterbewalzer'' (1914), directed by Fritz Freund. With the outbreak of the war, his film activity ceased temporarily, and he joined the Austrian Kaiserjäger, serving as an infantryman in the Carpathian Mountains, from which he was later detached to a mountain guide course. His strong feeling for nature, acquired at that time, became a feature of his life, and later, of his movies. With Joe May's '' The Indian Tomb'' (1921) Richter became famous to a wide public for the first time, but it was only with the advent of '' Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'' (1922), and especially with ''Die Nibelungen'' (1924) – both directed by Fritz Lang – that he became a sex symbol for the 1920s: Germany's answer to male stars of American film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilse Korseck
Ilse Korseck (1911–1933) was a German stage and film actress.Young p.89 After working initially in theatre she began to appear in films from 1930 onwards during the early sound era. In 1933 she died suddenly at the age of twenty one. Selected filmography * '' How Do I Become Rich and Happy?'' (1930) * '' The Trunks of Mr. O.F.'' (1931) * ''The Night Without Pause'' (1931) * '' A Blonde Dream'' (1932) * '' When Love Sets the Fashion'' (1932) * '' Scandal on Park Street'' (1932) * ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' (1932) * ''The Pride of Company Three'' (1932) * '' Madame Makes Her Exit'' (1932) * ''What Men Know ''What Men Know'' (German: ''Was wissen denn Männer'') is a 1933 German drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Hans Brausewetter, Erwin Kalser and Toni van Eyck.Kreimeier p.218 It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The f ...'' (1933) References Bibliography * Christopher Young. ''The Films of Hedy Lamarr''. Citadel Press, 1978. Exter ... [...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] |
The Chaste Libertine
''The Chaste Libertine'' () is a 1952 West German comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Georg Thomalla, Joe Stöckel and Grethe Weiser.Holmstrom p.209 It was based on a popular stage farce of the same title by Franz Arnold and Ernst Bach which had previously been turned into the 1931 film ''The Night Without Pause''. It was made at the Spandau Studios of Artur Brauner's CCC Films. The film's sets were designed by Emil Hasler and Walter Kutz. Synopsis When his wife suspects Julius Seibold, her circus-owning husband, of having an affair, he tries to allay her suspicions by suggesting that it is really his young assistant Max who is having a relationship with the woman, and that he is in fact a playboy. Max's fictitious lifestyle in turn attracts the Siebold's daughter to Max. Cast * Georg Thomalla as Max Stieglitz * Joe Stöckel as Julius Seibold * Grethe Weiser as Regine Seibold * Marianne Koch as Gerty Seibold * Karl Schönböck as Dr. Fellner * Dorit Kreysler as Rita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |