Emil-Edwin Reinert, or Emile-Edwin Reinert, (16 March 1903 – 17 October 1953) was a French film director, screenwriter,

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and producer. Born in

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in 1903, Reinert directed films in France, Great Britain,

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and

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as well he directed in co productions, associating different countries :

, France, Italy,

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, Great Britain and the United States. He died in Paris in 1953.

Filmography

As director

Short films

*1932 ''La machine à sous'' *1932 ''La Seine'' *1932 ''Les porcelaines de Limoges'' *1933 ''La tête de veau'' *1933 ''On déjeune à midi'' *1934 ''Une affaire garantie'' *1935 ''Nous serons toujours heureux'' *1935 ''Le siège arrière''

Feature films

*1930 ''Caïn, aventures des mers exotiques'' (as assistant director) *1936 ''

Treachery on the High Seas ''Treachery on the High Seas'', also known as ''Not Wanted on Voyage'', is a 1936 British comedy crime film directed by Emil E. Reinert and starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Charles Farrell. It is based on the play ''Murder in the Stalls'' by ...

'' *1939 ''

The Blue Danube "The Blue Danube" is the common English title of "An der schönen blauen Donau", Op. 314 (German for "By the Beautiful Blue Danube"), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866. Originally performed on 15 Februar ...

'', ''Amore ribelle'' *1941 ''Der doppelte Matthias und seine Töchter'',''Das Fünfmäderlhaus'' *1946 ''

Dropped from Heaven ''Dropped from Heaven'' (French: ''Tombé du ciel'') is a 1946 French comedy film directed by Emil E. Reinert and starring Jacqueline Gauthier, Claude Dauphin (actor), Claude Dauphin and Giselle Pascal.Rège p.620 A singer jokingly tells one of h ...

'' *1946 ''

Destiny Has Fun ''Destiny Has Fun'' (French: ''Le destin s'amuse'') is a 1946 French comedy film directed by Emil E. Reinert and starring André Claveau, Dany Robin and Robert Murzeau.Goble p.735 The film's sets were designed by the art director Guy de Gastyn ...

'' *1947 '' Naughty Martine'' *1947 ''

The Sharks of Gibraltar ''The Sharks of Gibraltar'' (French: ''Les requins de Gibraltar'') is a 1947 French spy thriller film directed by Emil E. Reinert and starring Annie Ducaux, Louis Salou and Yves Vincent.Alberca p.154 Cast See also *''Gibraltar'' (1938) *''Gi ...

'' *1949 ''

Thus Finishes the Night ''Thus Finishes the Night'' (French: ''Ainsi finit la nuit'') is a 1949 French drama film directed by Emil E. Reinert and starring Anne Vernon, Claude Dauphin and Henri Guisol.Rège p.540 It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film ...

'' *1949 ''

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'' *1950 ''

Quay of Grenelle ''Quay of Grenelle'' (French: ''Quai de Grenelle'') is a 1950 French crime drama film directed by Emil-Edwin Reinert and starring Henri Vidal, Maria Mauban and Françoise Arnoul.Goble p.275 It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The fil ...

'' ''The Strollers'', ''Vipere'', ''Dein Weg is dir bestimmt'', ''Danger is a woman'', ''Министерство труда'' *1950 ''

Bed for Two; Rendezvous with Luck ''Bed for Two; Rendezvous with Luck'' (), is a French comedy film from 1950, directed by Emil-Edwin Reinert, written by André-Paul Antoine, and starring Henri Guisol. The film features Louis de Funès. It is based on Gilles Dupé's novel "Le l ...

'' *1951 ''

A Tale of Five Cities ''A Tale of Five Cities'' ( and released as ''A Tale of Five Women'' in the US) is a 1951 British-Italian international co-production comedy drama film directed by Romolo Marcellini, Emil E. Reinert, Wolfgang Staudte, Montgomery Tully, Irma ...

'' *1951 '' The Red Needle'' *1951 '' Dreaming Days'' *1951 '' Vienna Waltzes'' *1951 ''

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'' *1952 ''

Adventure in Vienna ''Adventure in Vienna'' () is a 1952 Austrian crime thriller film directed by Emil E. Reinert and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Cornell Borchers and Adrienne Gessner.Fritsche p.243 It is an adaptation of the 1933 novel '' I Was Jack Mortimer'' by Al ...

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: ''Abenteuer in Wien'', ''Stolen Identity'' Emil-Edwin Reinert

As screen writer

*1939 ''Le Danube bleu'' *1950 ''Rendez-vous avec la chance'' *1950 ''Les mémoires de la vache Yolande'', *1951 '' The Red Needle'' *1951 '' Dreaming Days'' *1951 '' Vienna Waltzes''

As producer and supervisor

*1936 ''

Gypsy Melody ''Gypsy Melody'' is a 1936 British musical comedy film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Lupe Vélez, Alfred Rode and Jerry Verno. It was made at Elstree Studios.Wood p.90 The sets were designed by art director John Mead. The fi ...

Actors and actresses

He directed among others the following

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s and actresses: * In Great Britain :

Eva Bartok Éva Márta Szőke Ivanovics (18 June 19271 August 1998), known professionally as Eva Bartok, was a Hungarian-British actress. She began acting in films in 1950, and her last credited appearance was in 1966. She acted in more than 40 American, ...

Bebe Daniels Phyllis Virginia "Bebe" () Daniels (January 14, 1901 – March 16, 1971) was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer, and producer. She began her career in Hollywood during the silent film era as a child actress, became a star in musicals s ...

Bonar Colleano Bonar Colleano (born Bonar Sullivan; 14 March 1924 – 17 August 1958) was an American-British stage and film actor based in the United Kingdom. Biography Early life Colleano was born Bonar Sullivan in New York City. He had childhood experiences ...

Charles Farrell Charles David Farrell (August 9, 1900 – May 6, 1990) was an American film actor whose height was in the 1920s and 1930s and the Mayor of Palm Springs from 1947 to 1955. Farrell was known for his onscreen romances with actress Janet Gaynor ...

Tom Helmore Tom Helmore (4 January 1904 – 12 September 1995) was an English film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1927 and 1972, including three directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Helmore was born in London, England and died in Longboat ...

Barbara Kelly Barbara Kelly (5 October 1923 – 15 January 2007) was a Canadian-British actress, best known for her television roles in the United Kingdom opposite her husband Bernard Braden in the 1950s and 1960s, and for many appearances as a panelist ...

Gina Lollobrigida Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida (4 July 1927 – 16 January 2023) was an Italian actress, model, photojournalist, and sculptor. She was one of the highest-profile European actresses of the 1950s and 1960s, a period in which she was an international ...

Lana Morris Lana Morris, born Avril Maureen Anita Morris (11 March 1930 – 28 May 1998) was a British film, stage and television actress during the 1950s and 1960s. She played the role of Helene Hillmer in the 1967 BBC adaptation of ''The Forsyte Saga ...

and

Lupe Vélez María Guadalupe "Lupe" Villalobos Vélez (July 18, 1908 – December 14, 1944) was a Mexican actress, singer, and dancer during the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Vélez began her career as a performer in Mexican vaudeville in the early 1920s ...

. * In

Rosa Albach-Retty Rosa Albach-Retty (born Rosa Clara Franziska Helene Retty; 26 December 1874 – 26 August 1980) was an Austrian film and stage actress.

Axel von Ambesser Axel Eugen Alexander von Oesterreich (22 June 1910 – 16 September 1988), better known as Axel von Ambesser, was a German playwright, actor and film director. Ambesser's father was Alexander Constantin von Oesterreich. Ambesser was born in Hambu ...

Cornell Borchers Cornell Borchers (16 March 1925 – 12 May 2014) was a Lithuanian-German actress and singer, active in the late 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for her roles opposite Montgomery Clift in '' The Big Lift'' (1950) and Errol Flynn and Nat K ...

, Otto Wilhelm Fischer,

Gustav Fröhlich Gustav Friedrich Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 in fil ...

Attila Hörbiger Attila Hörbiger (21 April 1896 – 27 April 1987) was an Austrian stage and movie actor. Life Hörbiger was born in the Hungarian capital Budapest, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the son of engineer Hanns Hörbiger and the younge ...

, Franz Lederer,

Marianne Schönauer Marianne Schönauer (1920–1997) was an Austrian stage, television and film actress. During her career she made over fifty appearances in film and television series and also enjoyed success as a singer. She was born in Vienna as Marianne Schiff ...

Anton Walbrook Adolf Anton Wilhelm Wohlbrück (19 November 18969 August 1967) was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom under the name Anton Walbrook. A popular performer in Austria and pre-war Germany, he left Germany in 1936 out of concerns f ...

and

Paula Wessely Paula Anna Maria Wessely (20 January 1907 – 11 May 2000) was an Austrian theatre and film actor. ''Die Wessely'' (literally "The Wessely"), as she was affectionately called by her admirers and fans, was Austria's foremost popular postwar actre ...

. * In France :

Michel Auclair Michel Auclair (born Vladimir Vujović, sr-cyr, Владимир Вујовић; 14 September 1922 – 7 January 1988) was an actor of Serbian and French ancestry, known best for his roles in French cinema. Auclair was born to a Serbian fat ...

Raymond Bussières Raymond Bussières (3 November 1907 – 29 April 1982) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films from 1933 to 1982. He was born in Ivry-la-Bataille and died in Paris. He is buried in Marchenoir. He was married to the actre ...

André Claveau André Claveau (, 29 December 1911 – 4 July 2003) was a popular singer in France from the 1940s to the 1960s. He won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1958 singing " Dors, mon amour" (Sleep, My Love), with music composed by Pierre Delanoë a ...

Jean-Roger Caussimon Jean-Roger Caussimon (24 July 1918 – 19 October 1985) was a "provocative, anarchising" French singer-songwriter and film actor. He appeared in 90 films between 1945 and 1985 but is better known for having worked with poet-singer Léo Ferr ...

, Claude Dauphin,

Danièle Delorme Gabrielle Danièle Marguerite Andrée Girard (9 October 1926 – 17 October 2015), known by her stage name Danièle Delorme (), was a French actress and film producer, famous for her roles in films directed by Marc Allégret, Julien Duvivier an ...

Arthur Devère Arthur Devère (; 24 June 1883 – 23 September 1961) was a Belgian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1913 and 1956. Selected filmography * ''L'agent Rigolo et son chien policier'' (1913) * ''Flup chasseur'' (1920) * ' ...

Dora Doll Dora Doll (born Dorothea Hermina Feinberg; 19 May 1922 – 15 November 2015) was a French actress. Career Dora Doll, the daughter of a Russian-Jewish banker who was expelled after the 1917 Revolution, was born in Berlin in 1922. She came to Fra ...

, Marcel Duhamel,

Pierre Etchepare Pierre Paul Lucien Salvat Etchepare (2 October 1891 – 20 April 1943) was a French actor. Pierre Etchepare was born in Paris and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. Selected filmography * '' Happy Couple'' (1923) * '' My Aunt from Ho ...

Suzanne Flon Suzanne Flon (28 January 1918 – 15 June 2005) was a French people, French stage, film, and television actress. She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her performance in the 1961 film ''Tu ne tueras point, Thou Shalt Not Kill''. Flon also re ...

Louis de Funès Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza (; 31 July 1914 – 27 January 1983) was a French actor and comedian. He is France's favourite actor, according to a series of polls conducted since the late 1960s, having played over 150 roles in fi ...

Margo Lion Margo Allison Lion (October 13, 1944 – January 24, 2020) was a producer for plays and musicals both on Broadway and off-Broadway, known for her role in producing the stage and screen hit ''Hairspray''. Combined, the works Lion produced won 20 ...

Luis Mariano Luis Mariano Eusebio González García (13 August 1914 – 14 July 1970), also known as Luis Mariano, was a popular tenor of Spanish origin who achieved celebrity in 1946 with "La belle de Cadix" ("The Beautiful Lady of Cadix") an operetta by ...

Marcello Mastroianni Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (26 September 1924Come da lui stesso dichiarato a 1'10" dquesta intervista/ref> – 19 December 1996) was an Italian actor. He is generally regarded as one of Italy's most iconic male performers of the 20t ...

Georges Pitoëff Georges Pitoëff (Russian: Георгий Питоев; 4 September 1884 – 17 September 1939) was a Russian émigré with an Armenian background who became one of the leading actors and directors in France. Early life and education Pitoëff was ...

Dany Robin Dany Robin (; 14 April, 1927 – 25 May, 1995) was a French actress of the 1950s and the 1960s. Nicknamed ‘''la petite fiancée de la France''’ (''France's little fiancée'') in the post-war years, she became one of the leading female stars ...

Noël Roquevert Noël Roquevert (born Noël Louis Raymond Bénévent; 18 December 1892 – 6 November 1973) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1932 and 1972. Roquevert was born in Doué-la-Fontaine and was married ...

Louis Salou Louis Vincent Goulven Salou (23 April 1902 – 12 October 1948) was a French stage and film actor. Louis was born in Oissel and died in Fontenay-aux-Roses, Paris. Selected filmography * '' White Nights in Saint Petersburg'' (1938) * ''Firs ...

Anne Vernon Anne Vernon (born Édith Antoinette Alexandrine Vignaud; 9 January 1924) is a French retired film and television actress who appeared in 40 films between 1948 and 1970, including three films that were entered into the main competition at the Can ...

Henri Vidal Henri Vidal (26 November 1919 – 10 December 1959) was a French film actor. Film career Henri Lucien Raymond VidalSource Les Gens du cinéma/ref> was first noticed after he won the "Apollo of 1939" contest in Paris. He was spotted by Édith ...

and

Jean Vilar Jean Vilar (25 March 1912– 28 May 1971) was a French actor and theatre director. Career Vilar trained under actor and theatre director Charles Dullin, then toured with an acting company throughout France. His directorial career began in 194 ...

References

Alternate names

Emil E. Reinert, Emile E. Reinert, Émile E Reinert, E. E. Reinert, E.E. Reinert

External links

*
Emil Edwin Reinert – BIFI, UK

BIfi – Bibliothèque du film, Paris > Emile-Edwin Reinert
{{DEFAULTSORT:Reinert, Emil-Edwin French film directors French film producers French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters English-language film directors French-language film directors German-language film directors 1903 births 1953 deaths 20th-century French male writers