Willy Clever (1905 in
Elberfeld
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History
The first official mentioning of the geographic area on the banks of today's Wupper River as "''elverfelde''" was ...
–1969) was a German
actor
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and
screenwriter
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.
[Silberman p.239] He worked on several
multi-language versions at the
Joinville Studios
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A second studio was a ...
in
Paris
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during the early years of
sound
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.
Selected filmography
* ''
Spring Awakening'' (1929)
* ''
Revolt in the Reformatory'' (1929)
* ''
Witnesses Wanted'' (1930)
* ''
The Man in the Dark'' (1930)
* ''
Sunday of Life'' (1931)
* ''
Every Woman Has Something'' (1931)
* ''
Student Life in Merry Springtime'' (1931)
* ''
The Sandwich Girl'' (1933)
* ''
Miracle of Flight'' (1935)
* ''
Romance in a Minor Key
Romance may refer to:
Common meanings
* Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings
** Romantic orientation, the classification of the sex or gender with which a pers ...
'' (1943)
* ''
Love Premiere
''Love Premiere'' () is a 1943 German comedy film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Hans Söhnker, Kirsten Heiberg and Fritz Odemar. The film's sets were designed by Robert Herlth.
The film is based on the stage play "Axel an der Hi ...
'' (1943)
* ''
A Heidelberg Romance
''A Heidelberg Romance'' () is a 1951 West German romance film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Liselotte Pulver, O.W. Fischer and Gardy Granass. The film set a template for portraying German-American relations.Stephan p.163
The film's s ...
'' (1951)
References
Bibliography
* Marc Silberman. ''German Cinema: Texts in Context''. Wayne State University Press, 1995.
External links
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1905 births
1969 deaths
20th-century German screenwriters
German male screenwriters
German male film actors
Male actors from Wuppertal
Film people from North Rhine-Westphalia
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