Small German card by Ross Verlag for Hänsom Cigaretten by Jasmatzi Cigaretten-Fabrik G.m.b.H., Dresden, Tonfilmseries 3, no. 358. Photo: Eugene Robert Richee / Paramount. Marlene Dietrich in Morocco (Josef von Sternberg, 1930).
Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) was the first German actress who became successful in Hollywood. Throughout her long career, she constantly reinvented herself. In 1920s Berlin, she started as a cabaret singer, chorus girl, and film actress. In the 1930s, she became a Hollywood star, then a World War II frontline entertainer, and finally, she was an international stage show performer from the 1950s till the 1970s. Now we remember her as one of the icons of the 20th century.
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Austrian-American film director Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) is known as a great stylist, as the director of the prototypical Hollywood gangster film, Underworld (1927), and especially as the discoverer of Marlene Dietrich. He worked with her for the first time at the Ufa in Der blaue Engel/The Blue Angel (1930) and would subsequently make six more films with her in Hollywood. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Morocco (1930) and Shanghai Express (1932). Along with Erich von Stroheim, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder, Von Sternberg belonged to the large group of German and Austrian film emigrants who helped to shape Hollywood cinema.
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Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) was a German-American actor, screenwriter, producer and film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having ‘the Lubitsch touch.’ He was nominated three times for the Oscar for Best Director and in 1947, he received an Honorary Academy Award.
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Carl Froelich (1875-1953) was a German film pioneer and film director, who made many silent films with Henny Porten and produced such classics as Die Brüder Karamasoff/The Brothers Karamazov (1922), the first German sound film, Die Nacht gehört uns/The Night Belongs To Us (1929) and the groundbreaking Mädchen in Uniform/Girls in Uniform (1931). In 1933, Froelich became a member of the National Socialist Party and later became President of the Reichsfilmkammer. After the end of the war, Froelich was arrested and in 1948 he was de-Nazified. Between 1912 and 1951 he made 77 films.
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Fritz Lang (1890-1976) was an Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best-known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the 'Master of Darkness' by the British Film Institute. Lang's most famous films include the groundbreaking futuristic Metropolis (1927) and the influential M (1931), a Film Noir precursor that he made before he moved to the United States. His other notable films include Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler/Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922), Die Nibelungen (1924), Fury (1936), You Only Live Once (1937), Hangmen Also Die! (1943), The Woman in the Window (1944), and The Big Heat (1953).
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Austrian film director Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885-1967) was together with Fritz Lang, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and Ernst Lubitsch one of the great film directors of the Weimar Republic of Germany. He worked in Germany, France, Italy and the US. Some of his best-known films deal with the situation of women in the Weimar Republic. His best-known films include Die freudlose Gasse (1925), Die Büchse der Pandora (1929), Die Dreigroschenoper (1931) and Kameradschaft (1931). During World War II, he made the films Komödianten (1941) and Paracelsus (1943) in Nazi Germany.
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Austrian film and theatre actor Oskar Homolka (1898–1978) had a stocky appearance, bushy eyebrows and a rather Slavic-sounding name, which led many to believe he was Eastern European or Russian. His expressive face predestined him to play character roles as a scoundrel, pimp or communist spy. From the mid-1920s on, charming Willy Fritsch (1901-1973) replaced Bruno Kastner and Harry Liedtke as the darling of female cinemagoers in Germany. Fritsch became the immensely popular ‘Sunny Boy’ of the Ufa operettas of the 1930s and 1940s, and with his frequent co-star Lilian Harvey he formed the 'dream team of the German cinema'.
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Austrian film actor Rudolf Forster (1884-1968) appeared in more than 100 films between 1914 and 1968. He was known for Zur Chronik von Grieshuus/Chronicles of the Gray House (1925), Die 3 Groschen-Oper/The Threepenny Opera (1931) and Das Glas Wasser/A Glass of Water (1960).
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Otto Wallburg (1889-1944) was a popular actor of the Weimar cinema, who appeared in supporting roles as the overweight comedian. After the rise of the Nazis, the Jewish actor had to go into exile, first in Austria and later in the Netherlands. The Nazis murdered him in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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German stage and film actor Max Adalbert (1874-1933) was one of the great names of the German theatre at the beginning of the twentieth century. He was famous for his roles in comedies. His greatest success was the title role in the comedy Der Hauptmann von Köpenick/The Captain from Köpenick (1931) which he played on stage and in the cinema.
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German stage and film actor Hermann Picha (1865-1936) was very prolific in German cinema during the silent and early sound eras, appearing in over 300 short and feature films. Picha played a mixture of lead and supporting roles during his career. He played the title role in Schneider Wibbel/Wibbel the Tailor (Manfred Noa, 1920) and appeared in a supporting role in Fritz Lang's Expressionist fantasy classic Der müde Tod/Destiny (1921), inspired by the Indian folktale of Savitri.
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German stage actor Paul Graetz (1889-1937) often worked with stage director Max Reinhardt. He was a star in Berlin's cabaret. In films, Graetz played mostly comic and grotesque characters. The Jewish Graetz went into exile in 1933 and worked in London and Hollywood.
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Paul Heidemann (1884-1968) was a German stage and screen actor, film director and film producer. He was famous for his comical parts. Austrian-born comic actor/director Fritz Schulz (1896-1972) appeared in more than one hundred films between 1917 and 1970. When the sound film arrived, he was one of the most popular stars of the Ufa. The rise of the Nazis broke his blooming career.
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Alfred Abel (1879-1937) played in over 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938. He is best known as the industrial Fredersen in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927).
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German actor and director Fritz Kampers (1891-1950) was a solidly built Bavarian character actor. In films from 1913, he was much in demand during the 1920s and 1930s. Kampers was often cast as robust or comic military types, or laconic, but good-hearted rustics in mountaineering or 'Heimat' films. He appeared in more than 260 films.
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Carola Neher (1900-1942) was a talented and popular German stage actress and singer. She is now best known for her role as Polly Peachum in the film Die 3 Groschen-Oper/The Threepenny Opera (G.W. Pabst, 1931). After fleeing from the Nazis, she was falsely accused and convicted in the USSR of having engaged in anti-Soviet activities. In 1942, she died of typhoid in a prison.
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German stage and screen actor Felix Bressart (1892–1949) had to flee Germany after the Nazis seized power. He continued his film career in Austria and later in the US, where he became a popular character actor for MGM.
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Grand German-Dutch actress Adele Sandrock (1863-1937) had a successful theatrical career all over Europe. In Vienna, she had a stormy affair with the famous playwright Arthur Schnitzler and enjoyed triumphs as the diva of the modern playwrights. In the 1910s she became one of the first German film stars. After the introduction of sound, she emerged as a witty comedienne. She excelled as the intimidating elderly dragon, who could also be surprisingly funny and tactful.
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American actress Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968) was the most popular star of London's famed West End in the 1920s. After starring in several well-received plays, she gained the attention of Paramount Pictures executives and returned to the United States to try her hand at the film world. Tallulah's personality did not shine on film as Paramount executives had hoped. She appeared in such films as Devil and the Deep (1932) with Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton and newcomer Cary Grant, and Lifeboat (1944). While she made most of her fame on the stages of the world, the film industry and its history became richer because of her talent and her very colourful personality. Today her phrase, "Hello, Dahling" is known throughout the entertainment world.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888-1931) was a German film director who became world-famous as a maker of silent, expressionist films. Murnau's most famous films are Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922), Der letzte Mann (1924), Faust (1926) and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927). He invented many revolutionary techniques that have since been very often imitated by others. His final film was Tabu/Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931).
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Reri was born Anna Chevalier in 1912 in Bora-Bora, Tahiti. She was discovered by director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, who gave her the lead in his final film Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931). It is the tale of two young lovers on Bora Bora, the idyllic island in the South Pacific. Later she also appeared in the Polish film Czarna perla/Black Pearl (Michal Waszynski, 1934) and The Hurricane (John Ford, 1937). She died in 1977.
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Trader Horn (1931) made Edwina Booth famous. Unfortunately, it also marked the beginning of a nightmare for the young actress, whose health was seriously impaired because of tropical ailments she contracted while filming the movie in Africa. Her once-promising career was over by 1933 and she soon disappeared from view in the second half of the 1930s.
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Austrian film and stage actor Gustav Diessl (1899-1948) was the hero of the first Mountain film, Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü/The White Hell of Piz Palu (1929). This film and others by prolific director G.W. Pabst made him at the time an unusual sex symbol: the mature, quiet, somewhat difficult man who attracts women almost against his will. Under the Nazi regime, he was often cast as an exotic villain or a mysterious foreigner.
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Peter Lorre (1904–1964) with his trademark large, popped eyes, his toothy grin and his raspy voice was an American actor of Jewish Austro-Hungarian descent. He was an international sensation as the psychopathic child murderer in Fritz Lang’s M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder/M (1931).
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German film actor Karl Ludwig Diehl (1896-1958) appeared in 66 films between 1924 and 1957. Although he is forgotten now, he was one of the most prominent German film actors of the 1930s and 1940s.
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Putyovka v zhizn/Road to Life (Nikolai Ekk, 1931) was one of the first Soviet sound films—with an imaginative soundtrack far ahead of its time. This landmark film stars Mikhail Zharov, Nikolai Batalov, and Yvan Kyrlya. Stage actor Vasili Kachalov is the narrator. The film was a smash hit both in Russia and in the West, where its impact generated some dozen spin-offs on its theme of 'difficult' children.
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Potomok Chingis-Khana/Потомок Чингисхана/Storm over Asia (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1928) is a Soviet propaganda film written by Osip Brik and Ivan Novokshonov, and starring Valéry Inkijinoff. It is the final film in Pudovkin's 'revolutionary trilogy', alongside Mat/Mother (1926) and Konets Sankt-Peterburga/The End of St. Petersburg (1927).
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The Soviet documentary film Turksib (Victor A. Turin, 1929) documents the building of the Turkestan–Siberia Railway, which connected Central Asia and Siberia. The creation of this monumental construction project was an important moment in Soviet history. The rail line stretched northeast from Tashkent to Almaty and on to Novosibirsk.
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Dutch-German actress Ery Bos (1910-2005) had a short but productive film career in the early German sound film. From 1932 to 1934, she took part in a dozen films in only three years. Peter Lorre (1904–1964) with his trademark large, popped eyes, his toothy grin and his raspy voice was an American actor of Jewish Austro-Hungarian descent. He was an international sensation as the psychopathic child murderer in Fritz Lang’s M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder/M (1931). He later became a popular actor in two British Hitchcock films and a series of Hollywood crime films and mysteries. Although he was frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner in the US, he also became the star of the successful Mr. Moto detective series.
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Beautiful Anita Page (1910–2008) was one of Hollywood's most popular leading ladies during the last years of the silent screen and the first years of the sound era. According to MGM, she received the most fan mail then and her nickname was "the girl with the most beautiful face in Hollywood". Stone-faced Buster Keaton (1895-1966) was one of the three greatest comedians of Silent Hollywood.
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