Weimar Berlin - Curt Bois, Reizend (1930)

FRIEDRICH HOLLÄNDER (1896- 1976), born in London. He was the son of composer Victor Holländer. Educated at the Berlin Conservatory. By the age of 18 he had become an associate conductor at the Prague Opera House. After studying in Berlin, he composed music for productions by Max Reinhardt and became involved in cabaret and wrote music for the film, The Blue Angel (1930). He left Nazi Germany and emigrated to the United States of America where he wrote the music for over a hundred films, including Destry Rides Again (1939), A Foreign Affair (1948), and Sabrina (1954). Many of his songs were made famous by Marlene Dietrich. He can be seen as the piano accompanist in A Foreign Affair. He received four Academy Award nominations for composition . In 1956 he returned to Germany, and died in Munich in 1976.

CURT BOIS (1901--1991) actor, born in Berlin. He began acting in 1907, becoming one of the film world's first child actors, with a role in the silent movie Bauernhaus und Grafenschloß. Bois' acting career spanned eighty years, a longer period than can be claimed by any actor. His final performance was in Der Himmel über Berlin (in English: Wings of Desire) in 1987. Bois was very adaptable, performing in theatre, cabaret, musicals, silent film and "talkies" over his career. In 1934 he was forced to leave Germany. In New York City he found work on stage on Broadway. By 1937 he had found his way to Hollywood, and began acting in American pictures, the best-known of which was Casablanca (1942). After World War II Bois decided it was safe to return to Germany, which he did in 1950. He finished out his life and career in Germany, first in the East, and finally in the West Berlin - the city of his birth, at the age of ninety.
Recording:
Curt Bois und Ijia Livshakoff Tanz-Orchester -- Reizend (Fr. Holländer), aus der Kabarett-Revue „Höchste Eisenbahn", Grammophon 1930

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• Berlin
• Cabaret
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• 1930s
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[refragerator]

berlin is still the most energetic and just most amazing and astonnishing city in the world. and i've been to really MANY places, but berlin is just... berlin.

[randersonwa]

Meine grossmuter hätte geliebt das. (Forgive meine kindesches Deutsches, bitte.) My grandmother grew up in Berlin from the 1910s to 1932, when she emigrated with her family. Her photos, magazines, newspapers, brochures and mail flyers from the time are astounding. She had catalogs from the main department stores on K-Damm, nightclubs, restaurants and other night life. So much was lost. (Thanks Uncle Adolph! Love ya! Hope ya rot in Hell!) But the spirit of that time should be recovered.

[djmusicjac]

awesome i absolutely love tunes from weimar berlin, awesome kabarett music

[miguelmouta]

@refragerator Indeed. But only if you consider gays and drugs, energetics and astonishing .

[RangerThompson]

@refragerator Ahhh Mensch soo true. Best city in the world.

[sbd650]

Very funny!

[dasboogiewoogie1]

Moin, Moin from Texas!

If you like the Golden entertainment of the 1920s, you might like Brendan McNally's dark comic novel "Germania" (Simon & Schuster, 2009), about the Flying Magical Loerber Brothers, four somewhat magical, Jewish vaudeville entertainers and onetime child stars who were the toast of Berlin before WWII and who reunite during the surreal, three-week "Flensburg Reich" of Admiral Doenitz, Hitler's very unlucky successor.

[Darkalb555]

das war einfach nur genial^^...grandious video...from the 20th in 20century....i work as a male-nurse in a house with old peoples (sry about my english, i am german)...this person says this time she remember at the 20th ...they are golden but also bad...end after this come the 30th...;-((...i love chansons/schlager aus 20ern die noch sozialkritisch!!bzw. zum nachdenken & schmunzeln^^

[gmmix]

A great period piece. Engaging illustrations accompany the music. GREAT general commentary.  Biographical material is well worth reading. Thank you for this posting. FIVE STARS!