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Wie sag' ich's meinem Mann? (1932)
Character: Frau Kötelhön
The film starts in the fashionable seaside resort on the Baltic, Heringsdorf, where Renate Müller spends a secret weekend away from her husband with her bosom friend Ida Wüst. The husband meanwhile has a flirtation while traveling by night train from Frankfurt to Berlin, nice atmospheric shots of sleeper and dining car in the morning. The action continues in the luxury villas and apartments of Berlin, Renate Müller wears a string of very elegant outfits. Misunderstandings, jealousies, temporary separation of husband and wife, a few songs, wicked humour.
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Anschlag auf Schweda (1935)
Character: Gast im Hotel
The student Hans Kessler is suspected of having murdered the banker Hergotin, who has been found dead in his hotel in Zurich. When a search is launched for an unknown woman, who was seen in the hotel at the time of the murder, Hans suddenly confesses to the deed. The prosecution is headed by Schweda and Hans is sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Only afterwards does Regine, Hans' sister, find out about the events. She is convinced that her brother is innocent and is covering for the actual murderer.
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Gefährliches Spiel (1937)
Character: Gardrobiere im Hotelrestaurant
The formerly wealthy Baron Carl Erich von Wenden is desperate. His debts are out of control and he is forced to give up everything he owns. Since he doesn’t want to burden his daughter Rosy with all of this, he tells her he’ll take a pleasure trip with her … in truth, however, he has to work as an assistant waiter in the evenings, while Rosy stays in the hotel. He constantly fears his daughter will discover the truth; and this is a shame he cannot bear.
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Heimaterde (1941)
Character: N/A
A widowed landlady in East Prussia, who, despite his acquittal by the court, believes the forester to have murdered her husband, opposes her son's marriage to the forester's daughter and even wants to sell the farm because of it. The exposure of a border smuggler as the perpetrator turns everything around for the better.
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Lockvogel (1934)
Character: Dame an Bord
Viktor Schott, daredevil and womanizer, is charged by his father, a jeweler, to go to Istanbul and purchase a valuable emerald necklace from a rich Persian and to bring it back by ship to Marseille. A pair of criminals are watching him and attractive Delia, with whom Viktor is in love, is used as bait. His boyhood friend Sibyl, who is in love with Viktor, warns him of the criminal ship owner and the captain, who intend to steal the jewel during a masked ball on board. Shortly before reaching the coast of France, an explosion causes the ship to capsize.
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Nacht der Verwandlung (1935)
Character: Amélie, seine Frau
Nacht der Verwandlung (A Night of Change) stars Gustav Froelich as a globe-circling aviator, a character clearly based on America's Wiley Post. While basking in his celebrity at a nighttime carnival, Froelich romances Rose Stradner, the unhappy wife of brutish Heinrich George. When George refuses to give Stradner her freedom, she takes it anyway, but her fling with Froelich is doomed to disappointment. Our hero learns the hard way that one can be in a teeming crowd, yet still be all alone. Leading lady Stradner later resettled in Hollywood, where she appeared in such films as The Last Gangster and Keys to the Kingdom.
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Die große und die kleine Welt (1936)
Character: N/A
The taxi driver Fritz gets to know the millionaire-heiress Iris and marries her against the wishes of her family. They live together in a small apartment and are very happy. But Fritz wants to offer Iris more and thus finds a position as a laborer in a large car factory and ends up making a career for himself as a race car driver. But while he is driving from one victory to another, he is getting more and more estranged from his young wife. As his career starts to go downhill, he notices the mistakes he has made and tries to win Iris back.
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Prinz Kuckuck (1919)
Character: Frau Hauart
The niece and nephew of an eccentric millionaire try to get a share of the now deceased millionaire's inheritance from his adopted son who delights in squandering it. Considered lost.
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Anton, der Letzte (1939)
Character: Baroness Serafine
A grumpy valet takes corrective action with mumbling peevishness in the fortunes of his family household count.
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In München steht ein Hofbräuhaus (1951)
Character: Nächtliche Verfolgerin von Otto Kackelmann im Hotel
Berlin tongue encounters Munich lifestyle. A comedy around Oktoberfest. Movies, FRG, 1951 Fita Benkhoff, Paul Kemp, Liesl Karlstadt, etc. A Berlin producer of nerve healing, vitamin-enriched and expanding its life-prolonging lemonade stand in front of all the Schottenhammel at the Oktoberfest on - under the slogan helps Berlin Munich: an intolerable provocation. And then come the Saxons ... Turbulent comedy about beer, Oktoberfest and a lot of originals from Germany!
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Das Einmaleins der Liebe (1935)
Character: N/A
Identities are changed in the Austrian countryside. A simple woman does this to test the affections of a store manager, he too changes character several times and there are other locals who do this as well.
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Vor Liebe wird gewarnt (1937)
Character: Mutter Palme
Watchmaker Furchtegott Palme has three beautiful daughters. The two oldest are as good as engaged. Only Anna doesn’t seem to have a clue how to get acquainted with love. And who would be the right one for that? Her boss, Dr. Hartwig, who invited her to a party or perhaps Fink, the cousin of her friend Mona, whom Anna is supposed to pick up from the rail station? Anna, however, picks up the wrong guy at the rail station, but who seems perfect for her. But then, he disappears again. A pity, Anna thinks. And she ends up at Dr. Hartwig’s party, too. When she shows up all fancy and such for the party, he’s still with General Director Schroll working on an important contract. The next day, Anna meets the “wrong cousin” again. He’s Will Uders, a young and attractive lawyer. This time, Anna’s not letting him get away.
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Alles hört auf mein Kommando (1935)
Character: Frau Piesemeier
For more than 50 years, Pauline Neuber has directed the "Olympia" theatre, but lately, business has been bad. It appears that no one will be able to make it better either: the audience doesn't seem to like the plays; the press even less so; and the shareholders of the theatre want to sell their shares. In short, the "Olympia" has one foot in the grave. Erich, grandchild of Pauline and always underestimated by her, gets to know Hella Bergson, the daughter of the theatre critic Peter Bergson, and falls in love with her - but doesn't have an idea whose daughter she is. He plays her some melodies from the first operetta he's ever composed and Hella convinces him to have the operetta performed in the "Olympia". During rehearsal of the operetta, however, a fight breaks out between Erich and Hella over a stupid misunderstanding.
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Der kleine Seitensprung (1931)
Character: N/A
A wife believes her husband has been deceiving her and decides to have some fun at his expense. After a bit of mischief, her husband, a lawyer who is preparing a divorce for a client, decides to start divorce proceedings himself. The wife then realises she has gone too far.
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Herzensfreud – Herzensleid (1940)
Character: Frau Geheimrätin
Herzensfreud-Herzensleid (literally translates to "Heartfelt Joy - Heartbreak"), the 1940 Hubert Marischka German family relationship romantic comedy starring Magda Schneider, Paul Horbiger (later, he appeared in "The Third Man"!), Olly Holzmann, Lucie Englisch, and Walter Muller. It appears this movie was never released in the U.S.
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Beates Flitterwoche (1940)
Character: Tante Lola
The castle-estate Dachenstein is located in the beautiful surroundings of Upper Bavaria and has been farmed for years by the young Baron Georg von Muckenreiter. According to the will of his uncle, the castle-estate is to pass permanently into Georg's possession once he marries someone and makes her the legitimate lady-of-estate. Thus, he must marry! George, a farmer, huntsman and a freedom-loving bachelor, has little love for that, which is eternally feminine and a revulsion of marriage altogether. To his great fortune, however, his friend Heinz Kuppelweger has arrived for a small vacation at the castle. Heinz knows a lot about the "noble women kind" and he's going to help Georg. First, he's going to help Georg with some correspondence to his future, young bride in Belgrade -- Beate -- who is as happy with Georg's romantic correspondence as is her father.
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Scheidungsreise (1938)
Character: Erna Jänicke - Studienrätin
On their wedding night, the very night Dr. Delius and his wife Marianne had been so eagerly anticipating, a heated argument erupted between the newlyweds. Marianne's loyal dachshund took its protective instincts a little too seriously, constantly thwarting every attempt Delius made to get closer. This led to a fierce debate, culminating in the couple's immediate decision to file for divorce.
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Der Gefangene des Königs (1935)
Character: Frau Schöller
A comedy loosely based on the life story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, the inventor of Meissen porcelain: In Berlin, the pharmacist Fritz Böttger gains a reputation for being able to make gold and is imprisoned on the orders of the Prussian king. Following in the footsteps of a young lady, he flees to Saxony, but is also imprisoned in Dresden and forced to make gold. Although he does not succeed in this, by chance he discovers how to make porcelain instead. Augustus the Strong appoints him baron and director of the royal porcelain manufactory.
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Mädchen zum Heiraten (1932)
Character: Frau Krause
Three brothers lead the life of bachelors and their rent is overdue. The landlord who also happens to be a matchmaker tries to marry off the oldest brother to a rich girl.
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Sag' mir, wer Du bist (1933)
Character: Mrs. Schloderer
The star of an operetta is engaged to its elderly director but really loves a dashing young Bavarian she met at a masked ball.
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Der wahre Jakob (1931)
Character: Lehrerin
The village mayor is a bigoted man: when he sees a girl from the variety show, the morality no longer applies to him.
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Drunter und drüber (1939)
Character: N/A
Dr. Brunner spends the night with a childhood friend. Instead, he tells his wife he met a friend—who then shows up shortly afterwards, completely unsuspecting. A chaotic comedy of mistaken identity and jealousy.
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Heißes Blut (1936)
Character: Baronin Körössy
Baroness Marika von Korossy dresses up as a man, in order to compete in a horse race. Her victorious horse, Satan, will only allow her to ride him and throws everyone else off of him. That includes the dandy lieutenant Tibor von Denes, who immediately recognizes that Marika isn't a man. It isn't long before he makes friends with her and even gets her to dance with him. It's then that Marika takes off her hat and shows she's a woman, which causes jealous Ilonka von Peredy to go into a rage. When Marika is forced to sell her estate to raise money, Ilonka is able to get Marika's beloved Satan.
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Geliebter Schatz (1943)
Character: Freulein Tante
When a wife reads a love letter addressed to her husband, written by an unknown female, all hell breaks lose.
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Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius (1950)
Character: N/A
In the face of two world wars, Professor Prätorius, a philanthropist and a surgeon, wants to exterminate the one danger to mankind, the microbe of stupidity, as he states in a spontaneous lecture to his male and female students. When he tries to help a pregnant girl he gets involved more and more in her life and is forced to marry her.
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Das Jüngste Gericht (1940)
Character: Ottilie Sedlmeyer
The greengrocer Ferdinand Strubel wants his daughter Marianne to marry the son of the brewery owner Baron von Schnackenberg. Since Strubel is an impossibly cheap bastard, the marriage is to take place on 20 May, which, coincidentally, is the same day the city is having a grand festival for him to celebrate his company's being in business for 100 years. Marianne, however, has fallen in love with Leopold, a gym teacher; and when he reads an article in the newspaper about the upcoming arrival of Haley's Comet on 19 May, he comes up with an idea how he can prevent the wedding from taking place: He tells Strubel that the world is going to come to an end when the comet shows up, so that Strubel will see the errors of his way, cancel the arranged wedding and will become a better person for it. (Sucker!).
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Der Ball (1931)
Character: N/A
The daughter of a nouveau riche family, invited to an upper class ball meant to launch her in society, rejects the offer.
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Die spanische Fliege (1931)
Character: Mathilde Meisel
As a young man, mustard manufacturer Ludwig Klinke had an affair with a dancer, the “Spanish Fly”. The dancer had a son and Klinke has been secretly paying maintenance ever since. Wimmer and Tiedemeier also had a relationship with the dancer. With the appearance of the dancer's supposed son, Heinrich Meisel, chaos breaks out.
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Musik im Blut (1934)
Character: N/A
In Dresden's classical music world, female students learn from an opinionated conductor and a pompous dance instructor.When their work isn't appreciated, a teacher consoles them, saying Bruckner, Schubert and Wagner were also criticized.
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Die Kuckucks (1949)
Character: Frau Poehler - die Wirtin
Berlin, shortly after World War II. Five parentless siblings, led by the oldest sister Inge Kuckert, search for a place to stay and a basis of existence in the destroyed city. A bombed villa in the Grunewald seems to be the right "cuckoo's nest", but an alleged authorised disposal tries to drive the siblings out of the building. Fortunately, the friendly neighbor can help.
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Maske in Blau (1943)
Character: N/A
Gifted amateur dancer gets her big break on the Berlin Stage in this wartime romantic comedy.
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Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes (1939)
Character: Reinemachefrau
Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents must helplessly watch as their young ones die. Now Koch is undertaking to find the cause of the tuberculosis --- something he has already been working on for years --- which has been causing this plague of illness. His work is made more difficult by envy; for example, that of his teacher, who was wounded defending his honor. But his greatest obstacle is the famous Berliner scientist and Reichstag deputy, Privy Councilor Rudolf Virchow: He is extraordinarily skeptical of Koch's theory, that the cause for tuberculosis is a bacteria.
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Die englische Heirat (1934)
Character: Lady Buckley
Georg Alexander plays Douglas Mavis, the son of a rich English family who falls in love with a Berlin girl (Renate Müller) and marries her. However, he doesn't tell his family, and for a reason: the resolute head of the family (played by the inimitable Adele Sandrock) has other designs for her grandson. Further complications arise when the family lawyer (Adolf Wohlbrück) gets to know the Berlin lady without knowing who she is. And meanwhile, Mavis meets an alluring lady from a cabaret (Hilde Hildebrand).
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Morgenrot (1933)
Character: N/A
Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its screening in Nazi Germany. It became a symbol of the new times touted by the Nazi regime. The title (literally "morning-red") is the German term for the reddish coloring of the east sky about a half hour before the sunrise. On patrol Captain Liers and his submarine crew sink an important British ship, but while returning to harbour, they're lured into a trap by a British vessel disguised as a neutral Danish one. They sink it after it attacks them without warning, but while they prepare to rescue survivors, a British destroyer sinks the sub. On the sea bed 60 feet down, with all but the bridge flooded, the 10 surviving crew have only 8 rescue devices. Liers orders the crew to use them, but they disobey - either all escape or nobody does.
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Die Privatsekretärin (1931)
Character: Pensionsmutter
During hard times, a vivacious girl looks for an office job in the hope of landing a rich man. The director of the bank she works at flirts with her while not at first revealing his identity so she rejects him.
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Das doppelte Lottchen (1950)
Character: Fräulein Linnekogel
Two nine-year-old girls—rude Luise Palfy and respectful shy Lotte Körner—meet on a summer camp. Apart from their different hair-do, they look alike. They have never seen each other before, but soon find out that they are identical twins. It turns out that their parents divorced, each keeping one of the girls. They decide to trade places at the end of the summer. Lottie curls her hair, Lisa braids hers, and both go off to where they have never been before. The adventure begins.
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Viktor und Viktoria (1933)
Character: N/A
Aspiring singer Susanne takes over one night for her sick friend, a small-time female impersonator, and finds unexpected fame when everyone believes that she is actually a man. While touring London, complications arise as a local womanizer catches on to her game.
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Der Hund von Baskerville (1937)
Character: Wirtin von Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson look into reports that a huge, vicious hound has killed Lord Charles Baskerville and that Lord Henry Baskerville is the next to be killed.
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Das Lied der Sonne (1933)
Character: N/A
Impresario Adler is imprisoned for insulting an official and therefore unable to negotiate an important concert tour with opera singer Lauri Volpi. In his place, he convinces Friedel, a pretty music student, to travel to Venice to meet the famous tenor. In her travels, Friedel sends postcards written by Adler to his wife to prevent her from knowing his real whereabouts. When Friedel meets Volpi’s attorney, she mistakes him for the singer, and they spend days together in a romantic, picturesque Italy without him revealing his true identity. After his release from prison, Adler realizes two things: firstly, Friedel has been negotiating with the wrong man, and secondly, his wife has discovered the trick with the postcards, traveled to Italy, and started a storm of her own. But when the storm has cleared and the confusions are clarified, nothing holds them back from a happy ending.
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Der höhere Befehl (1935)
Character: Frau Barth
A Prussian commander disobeys orders and goes to find a British envoy who can negotiate a pact with Austria to help fight off Napoleon in 1806.
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Die Drei von der Tankstelle (1930)
Character: Sekretärin
Willy, Kurt and Hans are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then, they all fall in love with the same girl.
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