Jan Wiktor Kiepura was a Polish singer (tenor) and actor.
Marta Eggerth was a Hungarian actress and singer from "The Silver Age of Operetta". Many of the 20th century's most famous operetta composers, including Franz Lehár, Fritz Kreisler, Robert Stolz, Oscar Straus, and Paul Abraham, composed works especially for her.
Erich Gustav Otto Engel was a German film and theatre director.
My Heart Is Calling You is the 1934 French version of a German musical film directed by Carmine Gallone and Serge Véber, written by Ernst Marischka, produced by Arnold Pressburger. The film stars Jan Kiepura, Danielle Darrieux and Lucien Baroux. The music score is by Robert Stolz.
The Stars Shine is a 1938 German musical revue directed by Hans H. Zerlett and written by Zerlett and Hans Hannes.
Jenny Jugo was an Austrian actress. She appeared in more than fifty films between 1925 and 1950.
Paul Kemp was a German stage and film actor. Kemp worked as a piano accompaniest for silent films, and then served as an ambulance driver on the Western Front during the First World War. Post-war he moved into acting on the stage in Düsseldorf and Hamburg. His career really took off when he moved to Berlin in 1929, appearing in the hit stage version of the novel Menschen im Hotel by Vicki Baum. He made his film debut in 1930, shortly after the introduction of sound film. He appeared prolifically in German and Austrian films until his death in 1953.
The Trousers is a 1927 German silent comedy film directed by Hans Behrendt and starring Werner Krauss, Jenny Jugo and Rudolf Forster. It was based on a play by Carl Sternheim. Art direction was by Heinrich Richter and Franz Schroedter. The film is notable for the performance of Veit Harlan, later the director who made the controversial antisemitic Jew Suss, as a Jewish barber in a film made by a director who later died in the holocaust.
The Charm of La Bohème is a 1937 Austrian musical film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Jan Kiepura, Mártha Eggerth, and Paul Kemp. It follows the plot of Giacomo Puccini's 1896 opera La bohème. The film's sets were designed by Hans Ledersteger. The Berlin premiere took place at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo.
My Song for You is a 1934 film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Jan Kiepura. Kiepura sang the title song "My Song for You" written by Mischa Spoliansky and Frank Eyton. The song was released on an EP "Tell Me Tonight" in 1957.
My Heart Is Calling is a 1935 British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Jan Kiepura, Mártha Eggerth and Sonnie Hale. It is the English-language version of the German film My Heart Calls You and the French film Mon cœur t'appelle. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios.
My Heart Calls You is a 1934 German musical film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Jan Kiepura, Mártha Eggerth and Paul Kemp. Separate English-language and French-language versions were made, both also directed by Gallone.
The Singing City is a 1930 German musical film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Jan Kiepura, Brigitte Helm and Walter Janssen.
Unmarried Daughters is a 1926 German silent film directed by Carl Boese and starring Jenny Jugo, Charlotte Ander and Ida Wüst.
Miss Madame is a 1934 German comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Jenny Jugo, Paul Hörbiger, and Olga Limburg.
Gypsies of the Night is a 1932 German film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Jenny Jugo, Hans Brausewetter, and Paul Kemp. A separate French-language version Happy Hearts was also released.
Tout pour l'amour is a 1933 German musical film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Joe May and starring Jan Kiepura, Claudie Clèves and Charles Dechamps. It was a French-language version of the film A Song for You. The English-language version is My Song for You (1934).
The Song of Night is a 1932 German musical comedy film directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Jan Kiepura, Magda Schneider and Fritz Schulz.
The Indiscreet Woman is a 1927 German silent comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Jenny Jugo, Maria Paudler and Georg Alexander.
A City Upside Down is a 1933 German comedy film directed by Gustaf Gründgens and starring S.Z. Sakall, Jenny Jugo and Hermann Thimig. It is based on the 1836 play The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol. A separate Czech adaptation of the story The Inspector General was made the same year.
