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Synopsis: Bel Canto, The Tenors of the 78 Era, Vol. Two: Tauber, Schmidt, and Slezak contains three episodes, each featuring musical performances by one master tenor. Celebrated singers Tauber, Schmidt, and Slezak, among several others, are referred to as tenors of the 78 era because they made recordings in Read More
Actors: Elisabeth Bergner, Lilli Palmer, Heinz Schubert, Hardy Kruger, Wolf Roth
Synopsis: The action in this comedy is set within a 24-hour period, as unusual events unfold in the lives of two elderly sisters, Else (Elisabeth Bergner) and Hilde (Lilli Palmer). The sisters were living together in the family mansion in Hamburg when Else got tired of that life and hit the streets to make Read More
Actors: Elisabeth Bergner, Martin Held, Brigitte Grothum, Edda Seippel
Synopsis: Two elderly residents of a rest home escape for a day of fun in their Berlin neighborhood. Despite the fact that they are confused about their whereabouts, their charm and wit make friends for them wherever they go. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Ruth Hausmeister, Gustav Rudolf Sellner
Synopsis: The Pedestrian (Der Fussganger) was the second filmed directorial effort of German actor Maximillian Schell. Billed third under Gustav Rudolf Sellner and Ruth Hausmeister, Schell plays Andreas Giese, a Krupp-like industrialist whose past suddenly returns to haunt him. A newspaper article reveals Read More
Actors: John Phillip Law, Mimsy Farmer, Hiram Keller, Delia Boccardo, Kurt Meisel
Synopsis: Michael Strogoff (John Phillip Law) is the courier to the Czar who is helped by Nadia (Mimsey Farmer) to repel Tartar barbarians led by Feofar Khan (Kurt Meisel) from raping and pillaging in the steppes of Siberia. Ivan (Hiram Keller) is the Tartar sympathizer and activist who conspires against Read More
Actors: Vincent Price, Elisabeth Bergner, Essy Persson, Hugh Griffith, Patrick Mower
Synopsis: The inimitable Vincent Price puts an interesting spin on this otherwise pedestrian witch-hunt exercise -- a rehashing of Witchfinder General (aka The Conqueror Worm) and several of Roger Corman's numerous Poe variations from the previous decade. Here Price plays Edward Whitman, a corrupt, sadistic Read More
Actors: Elisabeth Bergner, Hansjörg Felmy, Johanna Matz, Dietmar Schoenherr, Brigitte Grothum
Synopsis: An adaptation of John B. Priestley's play, ~Time and the Conways~, this standard drama focuses on the Thorwald family through several years and is distinguished by an excellent comeback performance by Elsabeth Bergner as Frau Thorwald. The family is well-off and contented when a tragedy strikes Read More
Actors: Elisabeth Bergner, Randolph Scott, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Lee J. Cobb
Synopsis: Made just before America's entry into World War II, Paris Calling is one of the earliest French Underground adventures. When the German march into Paris, a polyglot of French patriots organize to undermine the Nazi occupation troops (represented by Lee J. Cobb, who plays his character with a Read More
Actors: Wilfred Lawson, Elisabeth Bergner, Michael Redgrave, Richard Ainley
Synopsis: Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul Czinner directed the film. Bergner stars as identical twins Sylvina and Martina, whose mild sibling rivalry intensifies when one of the girls tricks Read More
Actors: Henry Ainley, Felix Aylmer, Stuart Robertson, Leon Quartermaine, Austin Trevor, Laurence Olivier, Mackenzie Ward, Elisabeth Bergner, Sophie Stewart
Synopsis: This film version of the famed Shakespearean comedy features Laurence Olivier as Orlando and Elisabeth Bergner as Rosalind. As the story goes, Rosalind, smitten by Orlando and not able to get his attention, disguises herself as a boy to more easily remain in Orlando's vicinity. Eventually Orlando Read More
Actors: Elisabeth Bergner, Hugh Sinclair, Irene Vanbrugh, Griffith Jones, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Leon Quartermaine
Synopsis: Margaret Kennedy, whose novel The Constant Nymph dealt with a musician's love for a pretty young gamin, penned a variation of the same concept in Escape Me Never. Elizabeth Bergner stars as an unwed mother, who is befriended by impoverished composer Hugh Sinclair. He marries her out of pity, but Read More
Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson, Gerald du Maurier, Irene Vanbrugh, Diana Napier
Synopsis: This historical drama recounts the events that led up to the rule of Russia's 18th-century Catherine the Great. Arriving from Germany as a young woman who is to wed Grand Duke Peter, she soon becomes caught up in the court intrigue and marries the lit-fuse duke. As the Grand Duke's mother lays Read More
Actors: Elisabeth Bergner, Anton Edthofer, Raymond Massey, Romney Brent, Rudolf Forster, Joyce Bland, Sydney Fairbrother
Synopsis: Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wife Elizabeth Bergner. The star plays Gabrielle, the glamorous, spoiled wife of world-famous orchestra leader Peter (Romney Brent). Left alone by her constantly touring husband, she Read More
Actors: Gaby Morlay, Anton Edthofer, Elisabeth Bergner, Pierre Blanchar, Rudolf Forster, Victor Francen
Synopsis: Also known as Der Traumende Mund and Dreaming Lips, Melo was filmed in both French- and German-language versions by director Paul Czinner. Based on a play by Henry Bernstein, the film focuses upon a romantic triangle: orchestra violinist Peter, his wife Gaby, and their concert-violinist friend Read More
Actors: Elisabeth Bergner, Rudolf Forster, Theodor Loos
Synopsis: Ariane was Hungarian director Paul Czinner's first talking picture. Starring in the title role is Czinner's charming wife, Elizabeth Bergner, likewise making her talkie debut. Young, naive Ariane sets herself for an emotional fall when she falls in love with Konstantin (Rudolf Forster), a much Read More
Actors: Emil Jannings, Elisabeth Bergner, Conrad Veidt
Synopsis: The European mentality of this German silent was a bit racy for mainstream American tastes of the era; nevertheless, the images created by director Paul Czinner told this story well. A wife (Elizabeth Bergner) is bored by her overweight slob of a husband (Emil Jannings). She gives in to the Read More
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