Lilian Harvey
Also Known As: Helene Lilian Muriel Pape, Лилиан Харви, Lilian Helen Muriel Pape
Biography: Lilian Harvey (born Helene Lilian Muriel Pape; January 19, 1906 – July 27, 1968) was an Anglo-German actress and singer, long based in Germany, where she is best known for her role as Christel Weinzinger in Erik Charell's 1931 film Der Kongreß tanzt.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hornsey, London, England, UK
Birthday: January 19, 1906
Deathday: July 27, 1968
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Three from the Filling Station
Overview: Die Drei von der Tankstelle, meaning The Three from the Gas Station, was advertised as a German operetta when release and with it’s star studded cast would become the forerunner of Musical films. Even today the soundtrack of the comic harmonists is popular in Germany.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-09-15
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Princess, At Your Orders!
Overview: Simultaneously made French version of "Ihre Hoheit Befiehlt": An officer, posing as a deli clerk, and a princess, posing as a manicurist, meet at a ball. The court especially the prime minister oppose a marriage, for political reasons.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-04-02
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Castles in the Air
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-03-19
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The Congress Dances
Overview: Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant diversions to keep him out of the negotiation conferences of the 1815 Vienna Congress.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-09-29
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The girl and the boy
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-03-05
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I Am Suzanne!
Overview: A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-25
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Black Roses
Overview: Released in Germany as Schwarze Rosen, Black Roses represented the return to UFA studios of British musical comedy favorite Lillian Harvey, after several years in Hollywood. The delectable Harvey plays a Russian ballerina, stranded in turn-of-the-century Finland. She falls in love with sculptor Esmond Knight, a political dissident with a price on his head. To save Knight, Harvey spends the night with Tsarist governor Robert Rendel. The story is based on the real-life ballerina Marina Feodorovna, who ended up sacrificing her life on behalf of her lover. Black Roses was filmed in three languages: German, French and English; the English version was originally titled Did I Betray?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-13
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Lucky Kids
Overview: After completing work on the British musical Invitation to the Waltz, Lillian Harvey returned to her adopted country of Germany to star in the comedy-with-music Glueckskinder (Children of Fortune). Harvey plays Ann Garden, an unemployed actress who ends up in night court on a loitering charge. Here she meets Gil Taylor (Willy Fritsch), a struggling songwriter temporarily employed as a court reporter. Hoping to keep her out of jail, Gil impulsively tells the judge that he's engaged to Ann -- whereupon the judge, equally impulsively, marries the couple on the spot! After this inauspicious start, Ann and Gil embark upon a rocky (but tuneful) whirlwind romance.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-09-19
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A Blonde Dream
Overview: Rival window cleaners Willy I and Willy 2 befriend Jou-Jou, an aspiring dancer, who has been tricked out of money by a con-man posing as an American movie mogul, and together they turn an old railway carriage into a "Villa Hollywood" for her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-09-23
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The Only Girl
Overview: A dashing marquis bends from his horse when he discovers a lost garter in the woods and falls. During his delirium he is serenaded by a little hairdresser. She is the person who lost the garter to begin with and has only come to get it back having borrowed it from her employer--the empress of France. The marquis mistakenly thinks he was nursed by the empress, herself, and decides to woo her.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-02-22
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My Weakness
Overview: A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-22
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Capriccio
Overview: Lilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her grandfather as a boy in order to frighten away fortune hunters. But when the old man dies, her guardian Cesaire wants to marry her off to the rich prefect Barberousse. She is tricked by Cesaire with the portrait of a young man (Viktor von Staal) which is presented to her as that of her future husband. But when Madelone discovers this scheme she flees, again in men's clothing. But on her route to escape, she meets the young man from the portrait and falls in love with him. But Madelone can't give up her disguise right now...
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-08-10
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Burglars
Overview: The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-12-15
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Hokuspokus
Overview: Hokuspokus is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Oskar Homolka. It was an adaptation of the play Hokuspokus by Curt Goetz.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-07-10
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Seven Slaps
Overview: William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the stock-market manipulator is surprised the next day when he gets soundly slapped by MacPhab, and the latter promises to deliver one more a day for the next six days. Terbank's daughter, Daisy, is amused by the procedure and is attracted to MacPhab.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-08-02
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Die Kleine vom Bummel
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-12-30
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A Knight in London
Overview: A prince makes a socialite think she spent the night in his room.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-12-17
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Quick
Overview: Lilian Harvey plays Eva, a young girl taking some time in a health spa and spending her evenings in the town's vaudeville theatre enamoured by a heavily made-up clown called Quick. Quick takes a shine to her and tries to woo her without make-up and masquerading as the theatre's manager. Unable to resolve her feelings for Quick and the theatre manager, Eva is angered when she finally learns that they are one and the same.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-08-07
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No More Love
Overview: An American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them for five years. But after four and a half years traveling around on his yacht, he rescues a lady from drowning in the English Channel.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-07-26
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Zwei Herzen und ein Schlag
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-02-19
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Fanny Elssler
Overview: Prince Klemens von Metternich orders Friedrich Gentz, one of his aides, to keep the Duke of Reichstadt---Napoleon Francois Joseph Charles---son of Napoleon and heir to the French throne, from thinking about French politics. Gentz enlists the help of ballerina Fanny Elsser, all the rage in several European capitals, to keep the Duke distracted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-11-04
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Black Roses
Overview: Erkki Collin is a hunted man. The Czar’s soldiers have been close on the heels of the leader of the rebellious Finns, who have been fighting the Russian occupiers since the end of the 18th Century. His flight leads him to the chambers of the dancer Marina Feodorowna, in whose house a party is taking place at that very moment. Marina discovers the intruder, hides him from his pursuers and soon falls in love with him. But hiding Erkki forever is not an option; so she presents him as her music teacher. The swindle fails and Prince Governor Abarow, who’s long had a thing for Marina, discovers the real identity of the man, but doesn’t have him arrested.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-12-23
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Woman at the Wheel
Overview: Maria Kelemen is a secretary in the office of a bank in Budapest. Her boss, director Borden, courts her, albeit she is engaged to Paul (about which she has remained silent). On the day of the wedding, Paul becomes unemployed and takes on the role of a house-husband. During a visit at Borden’s, Maria introduces Paul as her brother, which incites raging jealousy in the latter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-06-19
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My Lips Betray
Overview: In a make-believe, mittleuropean kingdom, a vivacious but dim country girl sings in a beer garden for her rent money. Meanwhile, the king is facing bankruptcy for his little nation, unless he marries a rich but undesirable queen of another comic opera principality. Eventually he takes in the struggling young singer, and they fall in love, despite possible ruin.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-04
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The Road to Paradise
Overview: Willy, Jean and Guy are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then they all fall in love for the same girl. Simultaneously filmed French version of the German musical "Die Drei von der Tankstelle".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-11-14
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The Only Girl
Overview: English-language version of Ich und die Kaiserin. 'Germany, 1890. Duke falls in love with voice which is not that of empress, but of hairdresser.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-17
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Congress Dances
Overview: In 1815, Tsar Alexander I romances a working-class glove seller, while his double takes his place at the Vienna Congress. English-language version of Der Kongreß tanzt.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-03
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Schubert's Serenade
Overview: Serenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an absence of two years. Based loosely on the life of composer Franz Schubert, the film casts Bernard Lancret as Schubert, Harvey as his dancer sweetheart, and Louis Jouvet as a possessive Baron who has his own designs on our heroine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-02-28
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Love waltz
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-02-07
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Invitation To The Waltz
Overview: As the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-01
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The Love Waltz
Overview: Originally Liebeswalzer, this German operetta was the third talkie vehicle for the effervescent Lillian Harvey. The plot is a typical Graustarkian affair, with Princess Eva (Harvey) preparing to marry a duke whom she's never met. Getting cold feet, the duke ducks the wedding, persuading a handsome young commoner named Bobby (Willy Fritsch) to take his place. The wedding goes on as planned, with Eva never suspecting that her new hubby is a ringer. Eventually, the false duke confesses everything, leading to all sorts of intrigue before a happy ending can be realized. Love Waltz was simultaneously filmed in an English-language version, which posed no problem for the British-born Harvey but caused a few uncomfortable moments for her Teutonic co-stars (eventually, Willy Fritsch was replaced by John Batton, who'd played a bit role in the German version).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-23
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The Temporary Widow
Overview: Kitty Kellermann is put on trial for murdering her husband, a failed painter. When her counsel resigns from his mandate, the mysterious Peter Bille steps in, though it becomes apparent that he actually is not an advocate but Kitty's lover and moreover confesses the murder. The widow has to admit that the pictures by her deceased spouse sell much better, only for him to suddenly appear alive.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-13
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Wenn du einmal dein Herz verschenkst
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-11-20
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Vater werden ist nicht schwer...
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-12-31
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Leidenschaft
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-04-25
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Vacation from Marriage
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-12-13
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Liebe und Trompetenblasen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-08-13
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Adieu Mascotte
Overview: Based on a story by Michel Linsky, "Adieu, Mascotte" revolves around an artist's model named Mascotte (Harvey) who ekes out a hand-to-mouth existence in the Parisian art colony. In dire need of money to finance a friend's operation, Mascotte auctions herself off at an artist's ball. She is "bought" by a novelist named Jean (Igo Sym), who merely wants to teach his flirtatious wife a lesson. Discreetly keeping his distance, Jean persuades Mascotte to pose as his mistress so that his wife will become jealous and return to his arms. Of course, things don't go as planned.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-08-01
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Jornal Português (1938-1951)
Overview: The newsreel series Jornal Português (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propaganda (SPN/SNI) by the "Portuguese Newsreel Society" (SPAC), under the technical supervision of António Lopes Ribeiro. It was conceived and employed as part of the propaganda machinery of Salazar's regime. Screened in cinema theatres prior to the main feature film, each issue of Jornal had approximately ten minutes in length and covered a variety of official government acts, national political news, major sports events and other assorted social and cultural affairs. Jornal Português is not only an indispensable document for the history of Estado Novo's propaganda, but also an unparalleled audiovisual archive of 1940s Portugal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-12-12
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The Chaste Susanne
Overview: Naughty Susanne leads an exciting double life between her hometown and Paris: in the provincial nest she is considered the ever virtuous and down to earth girl, while in the cosmopolitan city she always escapes to, she is the queen of the night, sophisticated and seductive. In Paris, she meets René and begins to recruit him, but she has a noble competitor: Jacqueline. A spirited love triangle begins, complicated by the interventions of uncomprehending moral preachers. Their befitting final finds the story in the Moulin Rouge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-11-11
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Miquette
Overview: Miquette is a young woman whose beauty and vivacity increase the clientele of her mother's tobacco shop. A Barrymoresque actor believes that Miquette has star potential, but he hasn't sufficient capital to finance her theatrical debut. He manages to get the money by practicing a bit of genteel blackmail on an aging marquis who has romantic designs on the heroine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-05-01
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Let's Live Tonight
Overview: Nick Kerry (Tullio Carminati) is a rich rounder who holds tremendous fascination over women......mainly because he is rich and has his own yacht. At Monte Carlo one evening he romances Kay Routledge (Lilian Harvey), a romantic young and gullible American girl. She takes the dilettante seriously and when he sails away on his yacht, she is heartbroken. But the memory of her haunts him, and brings him back from India and the arms of another woman,Countess Margot de Legere (Tala Birell),only to find Kay now engaged to his friend. Oh, what's a rich guy to do?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-16
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Die tolle Lola
Overview: Two women, one man all the amourous combinations and a lot of tango and waltzes being danced in this silent adaptation of the operette by Gustav Kadelburg.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-07-25
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Quick
Overview: A woman staying at a health spa (Lillian Harvey, goes to the theater every night to see "Quick" a comic performer, who wears clown make-up. She meets him off stage, without make-up and doesn't recognize him. He courts her, hoping she'll like him for himself but she maintains her crush on "Quick."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-08-23
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Her Dark Spot
Overview: When registering in a Berlin hotel, the beautiful Lilian realizes that she apparently has a doppelganger: She is arrested as a wanted jewel thief. Lilian decides to find the woman who is preparing her next coup in Nice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-01-19
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Calais-Douvres
Overview: French language version of Nie wieder Liebe! (1931) Disgusted with love, a man bets 500,000 that he can live 5 years without a woman, joins a band of fellow women-haters, and manages to make it through 4 until he meets a troublesome young lady.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-09-18
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Thou Shalt Not Steal
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-02-08
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Der Fluch
Overview: A young Jewish woman in an Eastern European shtetl struggles to reconcile her aspirations with her duty to her family. As her lifestyle grows wilder, her mother is shocked by her immoral behaviour and commits suicide by drowning - repeating "the curse" which has haunted the family for centuries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-02-28
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Prinzessin Trulala
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-04-15
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Happy Ever After
Overview: Two window cleaners help a girl who is trying to get to Hollywood.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-23
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Moi et l'impératrice
Overview: Heart Song(U.S. release in 1934.)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-03-17
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