Johanna Terwin (1884–1962) was a German stage and film actress.Styan p.89 In the theatre she appeared in works by the

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Max Reinhardt Max Reinhardt (; born Maximilian Goldmann; 9 September 1873 – 30 October 1943) was an Austrian-born Theatre director, theatre and film director, theater manager, intendant, and theatrical producer. With his radically innovative and avant-gard ...

. She appeared in around twenty films during the silent and

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s. She was married to the Albanian-born actor Alessandro Moissi.

Selected filmography

* '' Laugh Bajazzo'' (1915) * ''

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'' (1918) * '' The Spies'' (1919) * ''

A Thousand for One Night ''A Thousand for One Night'' (German: ''Tausend für eine Nacht'') is a 1933 Czech-German comedy film directed by Max Mack and starring Claire Rommer, Trude Berliner and Harald Paulsen. A separate Czech-language version was also produced. Th ...

'' (1933) * ''

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'' (1936) * ''

Flowers from Nice ''Flowers from Nice'' () is a 1936 Austrian musical comedy film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Erna Sack, Friedl Czepa and Karl Schönböck. It was shot at the Rosenhügel Studios in Vienna and on location around Nice on the French Riv ...

'' (1936) * ''

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'' (1937)

References

Bibliography

* J. L. Styan. ''Max Reinhardt''. CUP Archive, 1982.

External links

* People from Kaiserslautern 1884 births 1962 deaths German film actresses German silent film actresses 20th-century German actresses German stage actresses Actresses from Rhineland-Palatinate {{Germany-film-actor-1880s-stub