Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actress and a premier star during Hollywood's silent and early golden eras. Regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time, she was known for her melancholic and somber screen persona, her film portrayals of tragic characters, and her subtle and understated performances. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on its list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema.
Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars. Seventy of Nielsen's 74 films were made in Germany where she was known simply as Die Asta.
Georg Wilhelm Pabst was an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He started as an actor and theater director, before becoming one of the most influential German-language filmmakers during the Weimar Republic.
Florence Turner was an American actress who became known as the "Vitagraph Girl" in early silent films.
Renate Brausewetter was a Spanish-born German silent film actress. She was the younger sister of famous German actor Hans Brausewetter.
Dishonored is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic spy film directed and edited by Josef von Sternberg, who also co-wrote the film with Daniel N. Rubin. It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film stars Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz, and Warner Oland, and follows a female spy (Dietrich) for Austria-Hungary during World War I. Costume design was provided by Travis Banton, in one of his several collaborations with Dietrich.
Ann Codee was a Belgian actress with numerous hit films on her résumé, such as Can-Can, Kiss Me Kate, and Interrupted Melody. Born in Antwerp, Belgium, her name was sometimes found in newspapers as Anna Cody.
Ilka Grüning was an Austrian-Hungarian actress. Born in Vienna in the old Austrian-Hungarian Empire, she was one of many Jewish actors and actresses that were forced to flee Europe when the Nazis came to power in 1933. A respected and famous actress of her time in the German-language area, she was forced to play bit parts in Hollywood.
Ágnes Esterházy was a Hungarian film actress who worked mainly in Austria and Germany. She appeared in 32 films between 1918 and 1943.
Katharina "Käthe" Dorsch was a German stage and film actor.
Maximilian Hugo Bettauer was a prolific Austrian writer and journalist, who was murdered by a Nazi Party follower on account of his opposition to antisemitism. He was well known in his lifetime; many of his books were bestsellers and in the 1920s a number were made into films, most notably Die freudlose Gasse, which dealt with prostitution, and Die Stadt ohne Juden, a satire against antisemitism.
Valeska Gert was a German dancer, pantomime, cabaret artist, actress and pioneering performance artist.
Sarah Ann Padden was an English-born American theatre and film character actress. She performed on stage in the early 20th century. Her best-known single-act performance was in The Clod, a stage production in which she played an uneducated woman who lived on a farm during the American Civil War.
Hertha von Walther was a German film actress. She appeared in 80 films between 1921 and 1983.
Ruth Stephan was a German film and stage actress. She appeared with Heinz Erhardt in the 'Willi' series of films.
Karin Hardt Meta Therese was a German actress.
Bodil Rosing was a Danish stage and American film actress in the silent and sound eras.
Jaro Fürth was an Austrian stage and film actor.
Edith Hancke was a German stage, film and television actress.
Alle gaar rundt og forelsker sig is a Danish 1941 Operetta film directed by Emanuel Gregers. The film was produced by Nordisk Film.
