
1933
The Only Girl
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)
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Born
1896-10-18 · 79 yrs
Died
1976-01-18
From
London, UK
Known for
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Friedrich Hollaender (in exile also Frederick Hollander; 18 October 1896 – 18 January 1976) was a German film composer and author. He was born in London, where his father, operetta composer Victor Hollaender, worked as a musical director at the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Young Hollaender had a solid music and theatre family background: his uncle Gustav was director of the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, his uncle Felix Hollaender was a well-known novelist and drama critic, who later worked with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater. In 1899 Hollaender's family returned to Berlin, his father began teaching at the Stern Conservatory, where his son became a student in Engelbert Humperdinck's master class. In the evening he played the piano at silent film performances in local cinemas, developing the art of musical improvisation.…

1960
The ghosts of thieves help a beautiful young countess save her inherited castle from modern developers in this comic horror/musical.
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1952
A married couple welcomes their first child.
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1951
Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.
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1951
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
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1949
A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame.
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1948
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman investigating her.
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1948
Two stepsisters become rivals for the same handsome bachelor. Comedy.
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1948
In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.
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1947
A veterinarian and a novelist compete for the heart of a lady rancher.
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1947
A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court.
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1946
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
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1946
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.
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1946
A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.
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1946
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
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1945
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
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