Dita Parlo
Also Known As: Grethe Gerda Kornstädt
Biography: Dita Parlo, born either Grethe Gerda Kornstädt or Gerda Olga Justine Kornstädt, was a German film actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]
Adult: No
Birthday: September 04, 1908
Age: 116 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 13, 1971
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Grand Illusion
Overview: A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-06-04
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Die Dame mit der Maske
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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L'Atalante
Overview: Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As they make their way down the Seine, Jean grows weary of Juliette's flirtations with his all-male crew, and Juliette longs to escape the monotony of the boat and experience the excitement of a big city. When she steals away to Paris by herself, her husband begins to think their marriage was a mistake.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-04-24
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Mr. Broadway
Overview: Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-12
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Courier of Lyons
Overview: A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-10
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Au Bonheur des Dames
Overview: Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crushes all the little businesses around. She finds a position there.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-07-03
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Street Without Joy
Overview: Jeanne supports supports his family on his modest salary. Her boss is arrested for fraud. Jeanne is forced, out of poverty, in the street.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-13
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Street of Shadows
Overview: A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-13
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Homecoming
Overview: Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany before Richard, and is sheltered by Anna, wife of Richard. While Richard is still on his homeward trek, Karl and Anna fall in love. And then Richard comes home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-08-28
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The Queen of Spades
Overview: A gambling countess comes by a secret three card combination that wins her a fortune, but she is allowed to use it only once and not gamble again. She passes on the info twice, and the recipients both die violently. She is warned that if she passes it on again, she too will die. Many years later, a young soldier discovers that the countess has the secret, and he resolves to get it out of her.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-12-29
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Hungarian Rhapsody
Overview: On the plains of Hungary, Franz, a Hussard lieutenant, broods about his future; Born into an aristocratic family, his father drank away the family fortune and marriage seems an unlikely prospect. Impoverished Franz's love for effervescent and upright country girl Marika coincides with the tragic tale of lovelorn violinist Josef, all but ignored by royal beauty Camilla.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-01-02
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Girls For Sale!
Overview: The 1931 German film, Tanzerinnen Fur Sud-Amerika Gesucht, adapted in 1951 for US showings with editing, added sequences, some English subtitles and English voice-over narration in lieu of dubbing.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-01
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Men Behind Bars
Overview: German-language version of "The Big House" (MGM, 1930), with Heinrich George in Wallace Beery's role, filmed by MGM parallel to the English-speaking version, at a time when good subtitles weren't yet in use.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-06-23
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The Kidnapping
Overview: Hans has killed the dog of Firmin, a shepherd. Wild with rage, Firmin kidnaps Elsi, Hans' fiancée and locks her up at his home. Hans, a peddler, vows to find the missing girl. This is what he does and he manages, with the help of Mânu, the village idiot, to give Elsi a letter. On seeing her, the changeling falls in love at first sight with the young woman. Elsi soon realizes that Mânu can become her instrument of vengeance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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Ultimatum
Overview: About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-27
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We're switching to Hollywood
Overview: A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak to several actors, primarily Buster Keaton, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford and Heinrich George. Then they meet Adolphe Menjou, who rehearses a long scene in German. A final scene shows stars arriving at a film premiere, including Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer and Wallace Beery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-06-09
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Peace on the Rhine
Overview: During the lead up to a second World War, one of several French films hoping for peace,specifically between Germany and France as shown by a border family in Alsace trying to resolve their differences.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-10
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Η Μπόρα
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1929-11-25
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Melody of the Heart
Overview: A young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who's saving money to buy a horse to open a transport company. After being unemployed for quite a while and her rent is long overdue, the landlady offers her a better job in a nightclub. Meanwhile the soldiers family has decided that her son should marry the daughter of a rich farmer. The soldier finds out about his girl friends profession, and accepts after struggling with himself the match his parents have made. At the day of his engagement his girl friend comes to his hometown with enough money to buy a horse, which leads to a conflict between her, the fiancee, her family, himself and his parents.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-12-15
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Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-12-04
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Kismet
Overview: Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This is a German-language version made in Hollywood along side the 1930 production directed by John Francis Dillon.
Genres: Romance Drama Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-01-31
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Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-10-08
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The Holy Flames
Overview: This is the German-language version of 1929's "The Sacred Flame", from the W. Somerset Maugham play, shot by Warner Bros. in Hollywood with a German-speaking cast.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-05-02
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Justice Is Done
Overview: Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-20
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Secrets of the Orient
Overview: Directed by Alexandre Volkoff
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-10-18
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Tänzerinnen für Süd-Amerika gesucht
Overview: About trafficking. A nightclub in Buenos Aires is advertising for blonde women for glamorous jobs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-02-20
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Cristobal's Gold
Overview: Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the Cristobal carries a priceless secret cargo of gold. Based on the novel by Albert t'Serstevens.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-04-22
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Tropical Nights
Overview: "Tropical Nights" - The young violinist Alma comes to Simbali with an orchestra led by conductor Zangiacoma, hired for a series of performances at the Schomberg hotel. Both the conductor Zangiacomo and Schomberg are obsessed with Alma. One evening, when Alma is, as usual, forced to entertain the guests she meets Mr. Heyst from his island Sourabaya, where he lives in solitude. He takes Alma to his place on the island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-05-27
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Honor of the Family
Overview: Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-17
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Manolescu, the Prince of Adventures
Overview: George Manolescu (Ivan Mouskojine) plays a confidence man who works his way from Paris to New York, along the way during a train ride to Monte Carlo he meets the voluptuous as always Cleo (Bigitte Helm) where they have a whirl wind romance which becomes short lived after she flees from him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-04-30
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The Woman of Monte Carlo
Overview: An adventuress serves as bait for a swindler, who robs the naive people she brings to him with poker. A childhood friend helps him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-07-28
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Under Secret Orders
Overview: During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for German intelligence.
Genres: Thriller War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-06
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