Dolly Haas
Also Known As: Dorothy Clara Louise Haas, Долли Хаас
Biography: Dolly Haas was a German/American stage and screen actress and singer who played in German and American films, and often appeared in Broadway plays. She was an accomplished actress in German cinema before moving to the United States. Her husband was caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
Birthday: April 29, 1910
Deathday: September 16, 1994
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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I Confess
Overview: Unable, due to the seal of the confessional, to be forthcoming with information that would serve to clear himself during a murder investigation, a priest becomes the prime suspect.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-13
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Main Street to Broadway
Overview: In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-12
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The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story
Overview: The childhood, adolescence, and incredible adult years of Al Hirschfeld, celebrated creator of thousands of line drawings of famous people - many in the entertainment industry - over a span of more than sixty years. He is still drawing in his nineties. His interesting domestic life, political, and cultural views are highlights. In addition, he talks about himself a bit - seriously and lightly.(At one point he he claims that his only form of exercise has been to live in his Manhattan townhouse: stairs). He drives his car around Manhattan - an adventure in itself. Brief interviews with, and reminiscences of many friends and associates.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-27
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Broken Blossoms
Overview: A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-20
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One Hour of Happiness
Overview: The two happy fitters Eddy and Tommy are doing overtime to ensure the great travel-exhibition of the department store they work in is ready for display. Outside, they see a poor newspaper seller, who looks longingly at the beautiful things in the display window. So they simply decide to smuggle the unfortunate inside and compete to win her favor by giving her gifts from the shelves of the department store. In their frenzy of happiness, they don’t notice that the girl is taking the fun little game for the truth. When she realizes that she has to give back the alleged gifts, she runs away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-03-16
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Dolly, Lotte and Maria
Overview: A portrait of three remarkable women who were once celebrated figures in the German cultural scene: film star Dolly Haas, dancer Lotte Goslar and artist Maria Ley, Erwin Piscator's widow
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-02-16
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Things Are Getting Better Already
Overview: The fast-driving daughter of a car manufacturer keeps Berlin's most pricey lawyer busy as she keeps getting into scrapes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-02-06
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Scampolo, ein Kind der Straße
Overview: The street urchin Scampolo (which means, "A Nothing"), who sleeps at night in a telephone booth and earns a little money running errands for a laundry, falls in love with a despondent, out-of-work bank manager in Depression-torn Germany, and thereby becomes a woman in the eyes of other men.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-10-25
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Spy of Napoleon
Overview: Exiled French patriot helps to find the men who want to betray emperor Napoleon III by selling military secrets to the German government.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-09
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Love's Command
Overview: During the Austro Hungarian empire, a girl substitutes for her brother in a military academy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-11-10
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Warum lügt Fräulein Käthe?
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-01-29
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Big City Night
Overview: Young French student Madeleine Duchanel wants to go to the theater and therefore pulls out of the well-protected environment of her school. In Paris she hopes to make a career, but in her naivety she ends up on the street.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-01-26
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The Upright Sinner
Overview: Leopold Pichler is a very orderly and trustworthy chief cashier who is asked by his boss to get a large sum of money from the bank which the boss urgently needs on a trip to Vienna. Due to some circumstances, getting the money takes a little longer than expected and the director leaves for Vienna without it. But Pichler sees himself as a reliable man, and so he and his assistant Wittek follow the director to Vienna with the money kept in a bag. In Vienna, the two provincials however are mistaken for guests of the director and spend an evening at a posh night club. But when it transpires that the director actually won't come to the night club that evening, Pichler and Wittek have to pay the bill with the money from the bank. And their subsequent attempts at reimbursing the money lead to situations of ever-increasing hilariousness...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-10-21
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Dolly is making a career
Overview: Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfriend. She sings,at one point, that she has the walk of (Lilian) Harvey, the mouth of Garbo and the legs of Dietrich.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-09-29
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A Tremendously Rich Man
Overview: A man swallows a diamond - and suddenly all people around him change their attitude towards him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-02-13
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Girls Will Be Boys
Overview: The Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he's never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke is a woman-hater, so Patricia disguises herself as a boy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-29
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The Page from the Dalmasse Hotel
Overview: Dolly Haas is employed as a (supposedly male) servant at a Hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-11-23
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A Girl You Don't Forget
Overview: A GIRL YOU DON'T FORGET can be thought of as a backstage musical that treats the whole world as backstage. Melodies seem to be buzzing through the air, available to anyone in the right state of mind. Willi Forst always is, and he is also an actor who can transform any space into a stage. Fritz Kortner, one of the defining personalities of the German theatre scene of the 1920s, makes the most of his star’s talent in an intricately constructed romantic comedy that believes in the truth of artifice. Forst plays Paul Hartwig, a wannabe actor who is reduced to selling books in the cold streets of Berlin. While pursuing his big break, he meets Lisa Brandes (Dolly Haas), another victim of the global financial crisis who has just learned a new trick: cheating horny old men out of their money by selling promises she does not intend to keep. Dedicated theatre man Paul decides to win her over by putting on an act, but a misplaced slap leads to unintended consequences. - Lukas Foerster
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-01-20
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Kleines Mädel, großes Glück
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-10-23
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The Bank Dick
Overview: Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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The Private Secretary Gets Married
Overview: An unattractive secretary is hired so the men in the office will focus on their work, but comic complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-03-17
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Die kleine Schwindlerin
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-04-02
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Es tut sich was um Mitternacht
Overview: Film by Stemmle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-03-13
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Du Barry was a Lady
Overview: Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-13
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The Exiles
Overview: A chronicle of the rescue of oppressed intellectuals and artists from Europe before the outbreak of World War II. It studies the cultural and intellectual impact of this emigre population on American life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-24
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The Ball
Overview: The daughter of a nouveau riche family, invited to an upper class ball meant to launch her in society, rejects the offer.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-09-10
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The Merry Widow
Overview: Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-05
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