Exils: de Hitler à Hollywood (subtitled) - 6/9

Documentary on the German and Austrian, mostly Jewish, immigration to Hollywood in the 1930's and 1940's. If you can get past the annoyingly sinister voice doing the voiceover narration, this is a very interesting documentary.

The following film personalities are mentioned (in no particular order):


Directors:

Fritz Lang, Robert Siodmak, Fred Zinnemann,
Robert Wiene, Joe May, Ernst Lubitsch, Kurt Siodmak, Edgar G. Ullmer, Joseph Von Sternberg, Henry Koster, John Huston, Michael Curtiz, Robert Florey, Billy Wilder.


Actors:

Peter Lorre, Hedy Lamarr, S.Z. Sakall, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Lupita & Paul Kohner, Spencer Tracy, Ilka Grüning, Ludwig Stössel, Wolfgang Zilzer, Curt Bois, Trude Berliner, Dalio, Madeleine LeBeau, Hans von Twardowski, Lotte Palfi, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis.


Composers:

Franz Waxman, Friedrich Hollaender, Hans Salter, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Werner R. Heymann, Arthur Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky, Miklós Rózsa.

Writers:

Salka Viertel, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Siodmak.


Cinematographers: Rudolph Maté.


Films:

Bride of Frankenstein, Adventures of Robin Hood, Ninotchka, Double Indemnity, High Noon, Some Like It Hot, Casablanca, Metropolis, Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari, Menschen Am Sonntag, Asphalt, Der Blaue Engel, M, Fury, Mr Moto, The Maltese Falcon, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Black Cat, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, To be or not to be, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, The Hitler Gang, The Seventh Cross, The Killers, Death Mills, A Foreign Affair, The Big Heat, Some Like it Hot.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Ninotchka
• Greta
• Garbo
• ASC
• Fred
• Zinnemann
• Metropolis
• Robert
• Siodmak
• The
• Wolf
• Man
• Dracula
• Frankenstein
• Florey
• Morgue
• Black
• Cat
• Edgar
• G.
• Ulmer
• blitzkrieg
• Warsaw
• Poland
• Salka
• Viertel
• Rubinstein
• Tchaikovsky
• Pearl
• Harbor
• Koster
• Charles
• Laughton
• Hollywood
• Canteen
• Hedy
• Lamarr
• Algiers
• Boyer
• Ernst
• Lubitsch
• To
• Be
• Or
• Not
• UFA
• Heymann

[hope69ification]

Thanks for posting this! However...is No 7 missing?

[IAmMySpatula]

"To Be or Not To Be" has to be one of my favorite films. Thanks for posting.

[LexiixoxRoxx]

Hedy Lamarr :)

[RHYMEMAIDEN1]

Bt the way, this video mentions Werner R. Heymann. I am a fan of his music and think it a great shame he never won an oscar for his film scores. His German films also had great music.

[RHYMEMAIDEN1]

Thanks for providing this excellent series. You are right about the narrator's voice. It IS sinister.

[JailWeddings]

"the honour to kiss the one millionth guest is bestowed on Marlene Dietrich"

[JailWeddings]

"the honour to kiss the one millionth guest is bestowed on Marlene Dietrich"