Georg AlexanderFilmography

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Das Mädchen Von Gestern Nacht

Actors: Willy Fritsch, Paul Westermeier, Gusti Huber, Hilde Hildebrand

Synopsis: Das Maedchen von Gestern Nacht was released outside of Germany under the streamlined and somewhat colorless title of Midnight Happenings. Set amongst England's "upper crust," the film stars Willy Fritsch as devil-may-care bachelor Lord Stanley Stalton. Falling in love with American heiress Jean Read More

Ein Falscher Fuffziger

Actors: Theo Lingen, Kaethe Haack, Lucie Englisch, Adele Sandrock, Georg Alexander

Synopsis: Per its title, the plotline of this film is motivated by a counterfeit $50 bill. The funny money is passed to shopgirl Christa (Lucie Englisch), who, fearful of being arrested, hides it in a baby's piggy bank at her home. In dire need of money, Christa's sister "robs" the bank and puts the bill Read More

Ein Idealer Gatte

Actors: Karl Ludwig Diehl, Brigitte Helm, Annie Markart, Georg Alexander, Paul Henckels

Synopsis: Though the witty, epigrammatic style of Oscar Wilde would seem best suited to the rhythms of the English language, a surprising number of Wilde's plays and short stories were filmed in Europe. The German Ein Idealer Gatte is a fairly faithful adaptation of Wilde's 1895 play An Ideal Husband. The Read More

2 x 2 im Himmelbett

Actors: Georg Alexander

Synopsis: The cumbersome title of this German comedy was streamlined as The Loser Wins for non-German consumption. Georg Alexander plays young aristocrat Arnd Krusemark, who, while laid up in the hospital, takes a turn for the nurse-nurse Schwester Gesine (Carola Hohn), to be exact. When he announces his Read More

Eskapade

Actors: Renate Mueller, George Alexander, Grethe Weiser, Walter Franck

Synopsis: A popular novel by Richard Henry Savage was the springboard for Seine Offizielle Frau (My Official Wife). The story is set in 1910 with the action evenly divided between Paris and St. Petersburg. Basically a comedy, the story concerns a high-ranking British official named Colonel Lenox (George Alexander Read More

Martha

Actors: Hanna Ralph, Huguette Duflos, Georg Alexander, Roger Bourdin, Fritz Kampers

Synopsis: Letzte Rose (The Last Rose) was adapted from Frederich von Flotow's opera Martha. Set in a very Teutonic-looking England, the story concerns a royal lady-in-waiting named Harriet (Carla Spletter) who is promised in marriage to an aristocrat, Lord Tristan (Georg Alexander). Alas, Harriet has fallen Read More

Das Frauenparadies

Actors: Ivan Petrovich, Leo Slezak, Georg Alexander, Hans Richter

Synopsis: The "Women's Paradise" of the title is the ironic nickname of a heavily-in-debt Vienna fashion salon. The business is taken over by Gary Field (Ivan Petrovich), a handsome young aviator. The shopgirls all swoon over Gary, especially starry-eyed little Eva (Hortense Raby), who offers to moonlight Read More

Ist Mein Mann Nicht Fabelhaft?

Actors: Georg Alexander, Lien Deyers, Ursula Grabley, Hans Junkermann, Paul Heidemann

Synopsis: "Ist Mein Mann Nicht Fabelhaft?" ("Isn't My Husband Wonderful?") coos adoring wife Lu Brandt (Lien Deyers). Lu's hubby Victor (Georg Alexander) may indeed be wonderful, but rich he's not. A lowly employee in a record-player factory, Victor discovers that his wife has told their neighbors that he's Read More

Das Schloss in Flandern

Actors: Marta Eggerth, Paul Hartmann, Sabine Peters, Valy Arnheim, Paul Otto

Synopsis: The "Castle in Flanders" of the title is where six aristocratic British officers are billeted during WWI. To pass the time, they play a scratchy old record on a ramshackle gramophone, eventually falling in love with the female voice heard on the recording. Meanwhile, the selfsame girl, a Parisian Read More

Maedchen in Weiss

Actors: Maria Cebotari, Ivan Petrovich, Hilde Von Stolz, Georg Alexander, Ernst Dumcke

Synopsis: Girls in White is the English-language title of this German semi-musical. The title characters are students in an exclusive St. Petersburg girl's academy. The principal character is Daniella, the daughter of a now-deceased opera diva. Since Daniella is played by famed soprano Maria Cebotari, be Read More

Der Stoerfried

Actors: Georg Alexander, Paul Henckels, Adele Sandrock

Synopsis: Der Stoerfried (The Troublemaker) was adapted from a popular turn-of-the-century German stage play. The title character, played by Adele Sandrock, is the gorgonlike mother-in-law of hapless hero George Alexander. Moving in on her daughter and son-in-law, Sandrock quickly makes a shambles of the Read More

Dance Music

Actors: Liane Haid, Gusti Huber, Hermann Thimig, Hans Thimig, Leo Slezak

Synopsis: Originally titled Tanzmusik, this Austrian tunefest is the story of Viennese composer Mario "Max" D'Almeida (Hermann Thimig). After enjoying only a modest success in his own country, Max moves to America, where he achieves fame and fortune as a jazz pianist. New York socialite Gina Harding (Liane Read More

Alte und Junge Kaiser

Actors: Emil Jannings, Leopoldine Konstantin, Werner Hinz, Claus Clausen, Marieluise Claudius

Synopsis: Alte und Junge Kaiser is "blood-and-honor" Nazi propaganda travelling under the guise of historical pageantry. The great Emil Jannings chews the scenery as aging Prussian "warrior monarch" Friedrich Wilhelm I. Alas, the King is saddled with a pantywaist nephew, Crown Prince Frederic (Werner Hinz) Read More

Und Wer Kuesst Mich

Actors: Georg Alexander, Felix Bressart, Theo Lingen

Durchlaucht amüsiert sich

Actors: Georg Alexander, Lien Deyers, Trude Berliner

Synopsis: Director/screenwriter Conrad Wiene (brother to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari director Robert Wiene) takes the helm for this classic German film that was long thought lost until a print resurfaced nearly seventy-five years after it's initial theatrical release. Georg Alexander, Lien Deyers, and Trude Read More

Die Fledermaus

Actors: Anny Ondra, Georg Alexander, Hans Junkermann

Lieutenant Warst du Husar?

Actors: Mady Christians, Gustav Diesel, Georg Alexander, Gretl Theimer

Synopsis: Faced with revolution, Queen Alexandria (Mady Christians) abdicates and scurries towards the border. En route, she makes the acquaintance of handsome rebel leader Feodor Karew (Gustav Diesel). Failing to recognize Alexandria as a member of the hated royalty, Feodor falls in love with her. She Read More

Wenn Die Liebe Mode Macht

Actors: Renate Mueller, Georg Alexander, Otto Wallburg, Gertrud Wolle

Ehe Mit Beschraenkter

Actors: Charlotte Susa, Hans Moser, Georg Alexander, Rose Valetti, Werner Fuetterer

Synopsis: Though "blessed" with a complex title, which translates as Marriage with Limited Liability, this German comedy was adapted from the more simply titled stage play Causa Kaiser. Composer Georg Kaiser is unable to secure a divorce from his wife, so he "lives in sin" with his singer-sweetheart Causa. Read More

City of Song

Actors: Jan Kiepura, Walter Janssen, Trude Berliner, George Alexander, Brigitte Helm

Synopsis: Several European countries collaborated to create this drama. The story begins as a young British woman meets and falls in love with her tour guide during a vacation to Naples. Along the way, she hears him singing. Recognizing a good tenor voice when she hears one, she takes him back to England Read More

Opernredoute

Actors: Ivan Petrovich, Liane Haid, Georg Alexander, Otto Wallburg, Betty Bird

Synopsis: Forced to work nights, a young Austrian bureaucrat is unable to escort his lovely wife to a masquerade ball. Unbeknownst to our hero, his wife and her maid slip off to the ball on their own. Wifey makes the acquaintance of her husband's best friend who, unaware of her identity, is quite smitten by Read More

Trara Um Liebe

Actors: Marta Eggerth, Maria Paudler, Felix Bressart, Georg Alexander

Synopsis: The German film industry seemed to have cornered the market in early-talkie military comedies, if Trara um Liebe (Trumpet Call of Love) and its ilk are any indication. The story concerns a young man who pretends to be someone else for the love of the heroine. What he doesn't know, but we do, is Read More

Hurra - Ein Junge

Actors: Max Adalbert, Ida Wuest, Lucie Englisch, Fritz Schulz, Jessie Vihrog

Synopsis: The German playwrighting team of Arnold and Bach were the collective Neil Simon of their time, turning out one successful stage comedy after another. Hurra! Ein Junge (Hurrah! A Boy!) is a typical Arnold-Bach melange of infidelity, mistaken identity, and punctured pomposity. The situations Read More

Acht Tage Gluck

Actors: Georg Alexander, Josef Schmidt, Angelo Ferrari

Synopsis: Originally released as Liebesexpress, Acht Tage Gluck (Eight Days Happiness) gets under way when heroine Annie (Dina Gralia) wins a huge cash award in a typewriting contest. She uses the money to go to Venice, where she hopes to start her life all over again. Placing an ad in the paper for a Read More

Mam'zelle Nitouche

Actors: Raimu, Edith Mera, André Alerme

Synopsis: Set in provincial France sometime in the 1870s, Mam'zelle Nitouche is put in motion by Celestin-Floridor (Raimu), the music master of a convent who secretly doubles as the composer of popular operettas. When our hero sneaks off to the city to witness the premiere of his latest effort, he is Read More

Geld Auf Der Strasse

The Love Waltz

Actors: Lilian Harvey, John Batten, Willy Fritsch, Georg Alexander

Synopsis: Originally Liebeswalzer, this German operetta was the third talkie vehicle for the effervescent Lillian Harvey. The plot is a typical Graustarkian affair, with Princess Eva (Harvey) preparing to marry a duke whom she's never met. Getting cold feet, the duke ducks the wedding, persuading a handsome Read More

La Tendresse

Actors: Andre Dubosc, Jean Toulout, Jose Noguero

Synopsis: La Tendresse was adapted from a play by Henry Bataille. Jean Toulout plays Paul Barnac, an aging, highly respected French playwright who resides with a much-younger actress named Marthe (Marcelle Jefferson-Cohn). Secure in the belief that Marthe is above suspicion, Barnac is in for a shock when he Read More

Carnival of Crime

Actors: Ellen Richter, Bruno Kastner, Heinrich Schroth, Georg Alexander

Synopsis: Carnival of Crime was based on Ernest Klein's novel Die Dam Mat Dem Tigerfall (The Woman with the Tigerskin), which was also the film's original German release title. When a tiger-skin coat is left unclaimed at a fancy nightspot, the story is deemed worthy of a newspaper headline. This is because Read More

Was Ist Los Mit Nanette?

Art of Love

The Lady from Paris

Actors: Vilma Banky, Georg Alexander

Synopsis: Hoping to capitalize on the Hollywood success of Hungarian actress Vilma Banky, a fly-by-night distributor purchased the American rights for Banky's 1924 German vehicle Das Schone Abenteur, which was rechristened The Lady From Paris. The star is cast as Yvonne Barron, a woman of mystery who is Read More

Liebe Macht Blind

Eifersucht

Actors: Lya de Putti, Werner Krauss, Georg Alexander

Lady Hamilton

Synopsis: This epic German production was said to have had a cast of 100,000. Whether there was any truth to this claim is extremely questionable, and there were but three really important roles in the film: Conrad Veidt as Lord Nelson, Werner Kraus as Sir William Hamilton, and Liane Haid in the role of a Read More

The Second Mrs. Tanqueray

Synopsis: It took nerve to squeeze Arthur Wing Pinero's 3-act play The Second Mrs. Tanqueray into two reels of film (approximately 30 minutes), but according to contemporary reports, the producers of this British adaptation of the Pinero original pulled it off. The leading roles were played by Arthur Maude Read More