Richard Tauber

Richard Tauber

Born: May 16, 1891
Died: January 8, 1948
in Linz, Austria

Movies for Richard Tauber...

Hitler: A Career
Title: Hitler: A Career
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 8, 1977
Type: Movie
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.
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Lisbon Story
Title: Lisbon Story
Released: May 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
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The Eternal Jew
Title: The Eternal Jew
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.
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Pagliacci
Title: Pagliacci
Character: Canio Salvatini
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Canio and his Comedia dell'Arte troupe tour Italy. His wife Nedda meets a young cadet and they plan to elope. He tries to leave her when he finds how important she is for his husband, but a rejected trouper interferes. As jealous Canio suspects the truth the tragedy approaches. The film was partly made in Ufacolor.
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Land Without Music
Title: Land Without Music
Character: Mario Carlini
Released: October 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Believing real life is an operetta, the citizens of the European country Lucco break into song at every blink of an eye. Since everybody's singing, nobody works, there's no money to pay taxes, and the country faces bankruptcy, leading the ruling princess to declare all music illegal. Enter opera singer Richard Tauber and American journalist Jimmy Durante to save the day and lead the citizens to march on the palace in protest--and in song.
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Heart's Desire
Title: Heart's Desire
Character: Karl August Franz Ludwig Josef Steidler
Released: August 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Richard Tauber, the great Austrian tenor, features in the story of a singing peasant from a Vienna beer-garden who conquers London, but at a cost...
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Blossom Time
Title: Blossom Time
Character: Franz Schubert
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer's unrequited love for a dance master's daughter.
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Right to Happiness
Title: Right to Happiness
Character: Kammersänger R.Hoffmann
Released: April 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Herr Hoffmann is a famous widowed singer with a young daughter to raise, aided by his faithful manager. They meet a girl and Hoffmann falls for her, reluctant to believe that in fact she is in love with a musician.
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The Big Attraction
Title: The Big Attraction
Character: Riccardo
Released: April 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Riccardo and his troupe travel around the world performing musical and dance numbers in vaudevillian and circus theaters. Dancer Kitty is so impressed when she hears him sing that she asks to enter the company, but is turned down by Riccardo. Then in the middle of a number at the Winter Garten she pops in and the audience loves it. Now she will try to win Riccardo's heart, although he has a secret from his past that might be an obstacle.
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The Alluring Goal
Title: The Alluring Goal
Character: Toni Lechner
Released: April 18, 1930
Type: Movie
Toni Lechner, innkeeper at the small Tirolese village of Heiligenblut, sings in church and is happy with his mother and his girlfriend Leni. One day an impresario arrives after an auto failure and hears Toni sing, tempting him into an operatic career. Toni accepts but with time he misses his people, not knowing his jealous prima donna has kept them apart from him.
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The Land of Smiles
Title: The Land of Smiles
Character: Sou Chong
Released: March 14, 1930
Type: Movie
A western woman falls in love with a chinese prince. When she accompanies him to his homeland, strange things await her. Based on the operetta of the same name with music by Franz Lehár and libretto by Ludwig Herzer and Fritz Löhner-Beda.
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Never Trust a Woman
Title: Never Trust a Woman
Character: Stefan
Released: February 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A sailor falls for a music hall performer with marital problems, after having been at sea a long 12 years, only to learn the distressing news that she is his own sister.
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I Kiss Your Hand, Madame
Title: I Kiss Your Hand, Madame
Character: Jacques' dubbed Singing Voice (voice)
Released: January 16, 1929
Type: Movie
Laurence Gerard has just divorced. While leading fat lover Talandier by the nose, She meets the count Lerski, who now works as waiter but do not tell her. When she hears from her husband he is a waiter, she thinks Lerksi lies and throws him out.