Curt Bois was a German actor with a career spanning over 80 years. He is best remembered for his performances as the pickpocket in Casablanca (1942) and the poet Homer in Wings of Desire (1987).
Mona Maris was an Argentine film actress.
Dina Gralla was a German film actress.
Judith Trachtenberg is a 1920 German silent drama film directed by Henrik Galeen and starring Leontine Kühnberg, Ernst Deutsch and Leonhard Haskel. It was based on the 1890 novel of the same title by Karl Emil Franzos. In 1932 it was released in the United States, re-edited to include sound, under the alternative title A Daughter of Her People. It was one of a significant cycle of films in the early 1920s which dealt with issues of Jewish cultural assimilation including Love One Another (1922), The Ancient Law (1923) and The City Without Jews (1924). The film's plotline of a Jewish woman becoming involved with an aristocratic figure follows what is known as an "Esterka story".
Without Meyer, No Celebration is Complete is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Sig Arno, Ralph Arthur Roberts and Dina Gralla. Boese made a number of films featuring Jewish comedians during the Weimar Era.
The Young Man from the Ragtrade is a 1926 German silent comedy film directed by Richard Löwenbein and starring Curt Bois, Maria Paudler, and Frida Richard. Bois' character of an ambitious young man was closely modelled on the early film appearances of Ernst Lubitsch.
Mischievous Miss is a 1930 German silent comedy film directed by Erich Schönfelder and starring Julius Falkenstein, Dina Gralla and Albert Paulig. It was made at the Staaken Studios in Berlin, with some scenes shot on location in Portugal. The film's sets were designed by the art director Heinrich Richter. It premiered at Berlin's Marmorhaus cinema.
The Serfs is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by Richard Eichberg and starring Heinrich George, Mona Maris and Maria Reisenhofer. The film's art direction was by Jacek Rotmil. It premiered on 11 January 1928.
A Tremendously Rich Man is a 1932 German comedy film directed by Steve Sekely and starring Curt Bois, Dolly Haas and Adele Sandrock. It premiered on 13 February 1932. The film was a co-production between the German subsidiary of Universal Pictures and the German firm Tobis Film.
Land of Love is a 1937 German romance film directed by Reinhold Schünzel and starring Albert Matterstock, Gusti Huber and Valerie von Martens. Although Schünzel was Jewish he had been allowed to continue directing films in Germany after the Nazi takeover. However, this film faced objections from the censors and from Joseph Goebbels. It was briefly shown and then disappeared from cinemas. It was Schünzel's final German film as director, and he went into exile shortly afterwards.
Princess Trulala is a 1926 German silent comedy film directed by Erich Schönfelder and Richard Eichberg and starring Lilian Harvey, Dina Gralla and Harry Halm. The film's sets were designed by art director Kurt Richter. As was common in her silent films, Harvey's heroine has to choose between several different suitors.
The Girl on the Road is a 1925 German silent comedy film directed by Richard Eichberg and starring Lilian Harvey and Hans Brausewetter.
The Soaring Maiden is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Lissy Arna, S.Z. Sakall and Dina Gralla.
Why Cry at Parting? is a 1929 British-German silent film directed by Richard Eichberg and starring Dina Gralla, Harry Halm and Paul Morgan.
A Small Down Payment on Bliss is a 1929 German silent comedy film directed by Jaap Speyer and starring Dina Gralla, Paul Hörbiger, and Imre Ráday.
Children of Fortune is a 1931 British-German crime film directed by Alexander Esway and starring Dina Gralla, Kurt Vespermann and Vicky Werckmeister. It was made as the German-language version of Children of Chance. It was made at Elstree Studios and distributed in Germany by Süd-Film, which was owned by British International Pictures.
The Woman from Till 12 is a 1928 German silent film directed by Erich Schönfelder and starring Werner Fuetterer and Dina Gralla. Much of the film's action takes place in a department store.
Ernst Bach was an Austrian actor and playwright. He made his debut as an actor at the Wiener Raimond Theater in 1899. In 1903 he moved to Berlin to the Residenztheater, then to Lustspielhaus in 1905, where he became Regisseur in 1906 and in 1908 Oberregisseur. In 1909 he started what was to become a 20-year partnership with Franz Arnold with whom he wrote more than 20 plays, mainly farces and operettas. Their first hit play was The Spanish Fly in 1913. They went on to become one of the leading playwriting teams in Weimar Germany. In 1917 he became the director of the Muenchener Volkstheater in Munich, whilst continuing his writing partnership with Franz Arnold at Starnberg. He remained in Munish until his death in 1929.
The Prince of Pappenheim is a 1952 West German comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Viktor de Kowa, Hannelore Schroth and Grethe Weiser. It was based on a 1923 operetta of the same name which had previously been made into a 1927 silent film.
The Most Beautiful Legs of Berlin is a 1927 German silent film directed by Willi Wolff and starring Ellen Richter, Dina Gralla and Kurt Gerron. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernst Stern. It functions as a revue show, showcasing leading dancers of the Weimar era. Richter and Gralla play rival competitors.
