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Elisabeth Bergner (born Ella vel Ettel Bergner; August 22, 1897 – May 12, 1986) was an Austrian and British actress. Primarily a stage actress, her career flourished in Berlin and Paris, before she moved to London to work in films. She is best known for her title role in The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934) and arguably her signature role, Gemma Jones in Margaret Kennedy's play Escape Me Never. She originated it in London and on Broadway, and later reprised it in the 1935 film adaptation, which earned her an Academy Award nomination.
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A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadca...
Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of w...
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees t...
Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of th...
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Pe...
A captain in the Czar's army encounters danger and romance while carrying a secret message across 19th-century...
While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging...
Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wi...
When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his pas...
A Spanish nobleman raises his only daughter as a boy, similarly to Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (1933). In ad...
The Thorwald family is well-off and contented when a tragedy strikes: the father is killed in an accident. Miss...
Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress...
Ariane was Hungarian director Paul Czinner's first talking picture. Starring in the title role is Czinner's cha...
A court had to decide what to do about Ellen, an elderly lady living on her own in a deteriorating rented prope...
When a squatted house in Hamburg is evicted, Else, a well-known vagrant, also has to look for a new place to li...
"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director, director, theater p...
Based on Honore de Balzac’s story of Madame de Langeais. Costume drama about the infamous loves of the countess.
A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.
The film tells the cultural story of Berlin during the Weimar Republic through interviews with a number of pers...
A young doctor from Yugoslavia takes care of a rich baroness, who in carefully devised ways, attempts to destro...
A melancholic enjoyable journey by an old couple who escape the dreary everyday life of a Berlin retirement hom...
Romantic quadrangle involving two brothers, one a burgeoning ballet composer; a willful heiress; and a waif.
Mathias, the evangelist, is in love with Martha. Johannes, Mathias brother tries to interfere. When Mathias and...
Girl dressed up as a boy falls in love with a painter.
The young Gaby is happily married to the musician Peter but cannot ignore the impression that his friend Michae...