Beniamino Gigli was an Italian opera singer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest tenors of his generation.
Marguerita Maria "Mady" Christians was an Austrian actress who had a successful acting career in theatre and film in the United States until she was blacklisted during the McCarthy period.
Ferdinand Heinrich Johann Haschkowetz, better known as Ferdinand Marian was an Austrian theatre and film actor, best known for playing the leading character of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer in the German film Jud Süß.
Marionette is a 1939 Italian comedy film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Beniamino Gigli, Carla Rust and Lucie Englisch. It featured the onscreen debut of Marcello Mastroianni as an uncredited extra.
Königswalzer is a 1955 West German romance film directed by Victor Tourjansky starring Marianne Koch and Michael Cramer. It is a remake of the 1935 film of the same name.
Paul Hörbiger was an Austrian theatre and film actor.
Ave Maria is a 1936 German musical drama film. It stars Italian opera tenor Beniamino Gigli and German actress Käthe von Nagy.
Franz Schubert's Wiegenlied"Schlafe, schlafe, holder süßer Knabe", D 498, Op. 98, No. 2, is a lullaby composed in November 1816. The song is also known as "Mille cherubini in coro" after an Italian language arrangement for voice and orchestra by Alois Melichar.
Der singende Tor is a 1939 German-Italian musical film directed by Johannes Meyer and starring Beniamino Gigli, Kirsten Heiberg, and Hilde Körber. It was a co-production made at Cinecittà Studios in Rome with a German director and a cast of mixed nationalities. The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Guelstorff. A separate Italian version called Casa lontana was also made.
Forget Me Not is a 1936 British musical drama film directed by Zoltan Korda and starring Beniamino Gigli, Joan Gardner and Ivan Brandt. In the United States, it was released under the alternative title Forever Yours. The film was made at Isleworth Studios. It is a remake of a 1935 German film of the same title and one of four remakes of foreign-language films made by London Films. The film was not generally well-received by critics, although they praised Gigli's singing.
Forget Me Not is a 1935 German drama film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Beniamino Gigli, Peter Bosse and Kurt Vespermann. The rights to the film were bought by Alexander Korda who remade it in Britain the following year.
The Tunnel is a 1933 French-German science fiction film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Paul Hartmann, Attila Hörbiger and Olly von Flint. The film was made by Bavaria Film, and shot at the company's Emelka Studios in Munich. It is an adaptation of Bernhard Kellermann's 1913 novel Der Tunnel about the construction of a vast tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean connecting Europe and America. It premiered at the Capitol Theatre in November 1933.
The Deruga Case is a 1938 German crime film directed by Fritz Peter Buch and starring Willy Birgel, Geraldine Katt and Dagny Servaes. It is based on the 1917 novel of the same title by Ricarda Huch.
Sajenko the Soviet is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by Erich Waschneck and starring Michael Bohnen, Suzy Vernon and Walter Rilla. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacek Rotmil.
Sword and Shield is a 1926 German silent historical romance film directed by Victor Janson and Rudolf Dworsky and starring Mady Christians, William Dieterle and Albert Steinrück. It is in the Prussian films tradition.
When the Young Wine Blossoms is a 1943 German comedy film directed by Fritz Kirchhoff and starring Henny Porten, Otto Gebühr and René Deltgen. It was based on a play by the Norwegian writer Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson which had previously been adapted into a 1927 German silent film of the same title.
My Daughter Doesn't Do That is a 1940 German romantic comedy film directed by Hans H. Zerlett and starring Ralph Arthur Roberts, Erika von Thellmann, and Geraldine Katt.
The Films of Princess Fantoche is a 1921 Austrian silent film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Liane Haid and Hermann Benke.
Mother Song is a 1937 German-Italian musical drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Beniamino Gigli, Maria Cebotari and Hans Moser. It was produced by Itala Film, a Berlin-based production company with strong links to Italy.
The Valley of Love is a 1935 German comedy film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Käthe Gold, Richard Romanowsky and Marieluise Claudius. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios of Tobis Film in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Schroedter. It is based on the 1902 farce Das Tal des Lebens by Max Dreyer. It was given a fresh release in 1950 by Deutsche London Film.
