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Theodore J. Pahle
Theodore J. Pahle (1899–1979) was an American cinematographer who worked in the film industries of several countries.Soister p.280 He is also known as Ted Pahle. Selected filmography * '' East Side, West Side'' (1927) * '' Stolen Love'' (1928) * '' The Jazz Age'' (1929) * '' The Lights of Buenos Aires'' (1931) * ''A Gentleman in Tails'' (1931) * '' Marius'' (1931) * '' The Improvised Son'' (1932) * ''To Live Happily'' (1932) * '' Number 33'' (1933) * '' The Premature Father'' (1933) * ''A Love Story'' (1933) * ''Monsieur Sans-Gêne'' (1935) * ''Bux the Clown'' (1935) * ''Tomfoolery'' (1936) * '' Catherine the Last'' (1936) * ''Romance'' (1936) * ''Court Theatre'' (1936) * '' Hannerl and Her Lovers'' (1936) * ''The Alibi'' (1937) * ''Ultimatum'' (1938) * ''Gibraltar'' (1938) * '' Storm Over Asia'' (1938) * '' Conflict'' (1938) * ''The Lafarge Case'' (1938) * ''Bel Ami'' (1939) * ''Entente cordiale'' (1939) * '' The Unloved Woman'' (1940) * '' The Queen's Flower Girl'' (1940) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romance (1936 Film)
''Romance'' () is a 1936 Austrian drama film directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Christl Mardayn, Carl Esmond and Trude Marlen.Bock & Bergfelder p.105 The film's sets were designed by Julius von Borsody. The film was shot at the Rosenhügel Studios in Vienna. Plot summary Cast * Christl Mardayn as Helga Leonhardt * Carl Esmond as Graf Eduard Romanel * Trude Marlen as Tänzerin (Dancer) * Herbert Hübner as Präsident Leonhardt * Rudolf Schündler as Hartwig - Sekretär * Fritz Imhoff * Annie Rosar * Robert Valberg * Franz Herterich * Mihail Xantho * Richard Waldemar * Ernst Pröckl * Julius Karsten * Josef Bergauer * Eugen Guenther * Karl Kneidinger Karl Kneidinger (30 August 1882 – 14 April 1952), was an Austrian stage and film actor, and a theater director. Biography Karl Kneidinger was born 30 August 1882 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria), the son of actress Marie Kneidinger (1 ... References Bibliography * Bock, Hans-Micha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Reluctant Hero
''The Reluctant Hero'' (Spanish: ''Héroe a la fuerza'') is a 1941 Spanish comedy film directed by Benito Perojo and starring Miguel Ligero, Antoñita Colomé and Alberto Romea. The film is based on a play by Sergio Pugliese. It is stylistically similar to the White Telephone films of Italy.Bentley p.93 Cast * Miguel Ligero * Antoñita Colomé * Alberto Romea * Manuel de Diego * Lily Vicenti * Pedro Fernández Cuenca * Fernando Porredón * Pedro Valdivieso * Fernando Vallejo * Pedro Chicote Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning ... References Bibliography * Bentley, Bernard. ''A Companion to Spanish Cinema''. Boydell & Brewer, 2008. External links * 1941 films Spanish comedy films 1941 comedy films 1940s Spanish-language films Films directed by B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Queen's Flower Girl
''The Queen's Flower Girl'' (Spanish:''La florista de la reina'') is a 1940 Spanish historical drama film directed by Eusebio Fernández Ardavín and starring Ana Mariscal, María Guerrero and Alfredo Mayo. The film is set in Madrid in the late nineteenth century. Ardavín adapted one of his own plays for the film, which was commercially successful.Bentley p.84 Cast * María Guerrero López (niece of María Guerrero) * Ana Mariscal * Alfredo Mayo * Jesús Tordesillas * Juan Barajas ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. The name is of Hebrew origin and has the meaning "God has been gracious." It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking countries around the world and in the Philippi ... * Carmen López Lagar * Manolita Morán * Pedro Oltra References Bibliography * Bentley, Bernard. ''A Companion to Spanish Cinema''. Boydell & Brewer 2008. External links * 1940 films Spanish historical drama films 1940s historical dram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unloved Woman (1940 Film)
''The Unloved Woman'' (Spanish:''La malquerida'') is a 1940 Spanish drama film directed by José López Rubio. It is based on the 1913 play of the same title by Jacinto Benavente. Synopsis Doña Raimunda and her daughter Acacia live in the El Soto hacienda. After becoming a widow, Raimunda contracted new marriages with Esteban, who is secretly in love with Acacia, who hates him. Esteban will try to get rid of all the men who court Acacia. Cast * Antonio Armet as El Rubio * Társila Criado as Raimunda * Manolo Morán as Pascual * Carlos Muñoz as Faustino * Julio Peña as Norberto * Luchy Soto as Acacia * Jesús Tordesillas as Esteban * Isabel de Pomés Isabel de Pomés (10 April 1924 – 31 May 2007) was a classic Spanish film actress and one of the leading ladies in Spanish cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. She appeared in over 30 films between 1941 and 1965. Her father was the actor and sport ... as Chica en balcón References Bibliography * Labanyi, Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entente Cordiale (film)
''Entente cordiale'' is a 1939 French drama film directed by Marcel L'Herbier and starring Gaby Morlay, Victor Francen and Pierre Richard-Willm. The film depicts events between the Fashoda Incident, Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book ''King Edward VII and His Times'' by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany. Cast * Gaby Morlay ... Victoria of the United Kingdom, La reine Victoria * Victor Francen ... Edward VII, Édouard VII * Pierre Richard-Willm ... Capitaine Charles Roussel * André Lefaur ... Lord Clayton * Arlette Marchal ... Queen Alexandra, La reine Alexandra * Junie Astor ... Une actrice / An actress * Nita Raya ... Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bel Ami (1939 Film)
''Bel Ami'' is a 1939 German film directed by Willi Forst. It is loosely based on Guy de Maupassant's 1885 novel ''Bel Ami'', with considerable changes to the original plot. Plot In Paris, in about 1900, George Duroy, just returned from Morocco, spends a night with the singer Rachel, who is rehearsing the song ''Bel Ami''. Later at a party he tells the newspaper editor Forestier about Morocco. At the request of the ladies present Duroy is engaged by Walter, proprietor of ''La Vie Française'', as a journalist. Forestier's wife Madeleine, who is also the mistress of the Député Laroche, whom she allows to exploit her in order to influence the newspaper as Laroche wishes, helps Duroy in the composition of his texts. Forestier becomes jealous of Duroy and divorces Madeleine. The Minister for the Colonies, who has campaigned for a restrained foreign policy, has to resign. His successor is Laroche, who initially stands for interventionist policies because of his ownership of land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lafarge Case
''The Lafarge Case'' (French: ''L'Affaire Lafarge'') is a 1938 French historical crime drama film directed by Pierre Chenal and starring Pierre Renoir, Marcelle Chantal and Raymond Rouleau. It recalls a famous nineteenth century case, and is mostly portrayed in flashback.Andrew p.164 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Gys and Eugène Lourié. Synopsis In the 1840s Marie a young woman from Paris is married to Charles, a brutal, unpleasant ironmaster An ironmaster is the manager, and usually owner, of a forge or blast furnace for the processing of iron. It is a term mainly associated with the period of the Industrial Revolution, especially in Great Britain. The ironmaster was usually a larg ... in provincial France. When he dies under mysterious circumstances she is accused of murdering him by his family and is put on trial. Cast References Bibliography * Andrews, Dudley. ''Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film''. Princet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conflict (1938 Film)
''Conflict'' (French: ''Conflit'') is a 1938 French drama film directed by Léonide Moguy, who co-wrote the screenplay with Hans Wilhelm and Charles Gombault (dialogue), based on the novel ''Die Schwestern Kleh'' by Gina Kaus. It stars Corinne Luchaire, Annie Ducaux, Marguerite Pierry and Armand Bernard.Goble p.253 The film's sets were designed by the art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...s Maurice Colasson and Georges Wakhévitch. Plot summary Cast * Corinne Luchaire as Claire * Annie Ducaux as Catherine Lafont * Claude Dauphin as Gérard * Raymond Rouleau as Michel Lafont * Armand Bernard as Le greffier / Secretary * Roger Duchesne as Robert * Marcel Dalio as L'usurier / The Money-Lender * Pauline Carton as Pauline * M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gibraltar (1938 Film)
''Gibraltar'' is a 1938 French spy film directed by Fedor Ozep and starring Viviane Romance, Roger Duchesne, Abel Jacquin and Erich von Stroheim. It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris, with location shooting taking place in Gibraltar itself despite the Spanish Civil War being fought across the border.Alberca p.133 The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. It was later remade in 1964 under the same title. Synopsis The plot concerns a British officer stationed in Gibraltar who goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of hostile agents. Main cast * Viviane Romance as Mercedes * Roger Duchesne as Robert Jackson * Abel Jacquin as Frank Lloyd * Erich von Stroheim as Marson * Jean Périer as Col. Wilcox * Yvette Lebon as Maud Wilcox * Paulette Pax as Mme. Nichols * André Roanne as Le Lt. Français * Georges Flamant as Maori * Odette Talazac as Angelina, Dresser * Madeleine Suffel as Nelly, Manicurist See also *'' The Sharks of Gibralta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultimatum (1938 Film)
''Ultimatum'' is a 1938 French historical drama film directed by Robert Wiene and Robert Siodmak and starring Dita Parlo, Erich von Stroheim and Abel Jacquin. The film's plot is set in 1914 against the backdrop of the July Crisis between the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. It focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries. It was the final film of Wiene, who had been a leading director of German cinema particularly noted for his work on expressionist films during the silent era. He died shortly before the film's completion, and it was finished by Siodmak. Production and reception Wiene had been forced into exile from Germany following the Nazi rise to power. During the four years since his previous film '' A Night in Venice'' (1934) he had been struggling to raise financing in London and Paris for his projects and had not made a single fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
