Lilian Harvey

Lilian Harvey

Born: January 19, 1906
Died: July 27, 1968
in Hornsey, London, England, UK
Lilian Harvey (born Helene Lilian Muriel Pape; January 19, 1906 – July 27, 1968) was an Anglo-German actress and singer, long based in Germany, where she is best known for her role as Christel Weinzinger in Erik Charell's 1931 film Der Kongreß tanzt.

Movies for Lilian Harvey...

Jornal Português (1938-1951)
Title: Jornal Português (1938-1951)
Character: Herself (archive footage)
Released: December 12, 2005
Type: Movie
The newsreel series Jornal Português (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propaganda (SPN/SNI) by the "Portuguese Newsreel Society" (SPAC), under the technical supervision of António Lopes Ribeiro. It was conceived and employed as part of the propaganda machinery of Salazar's regime. Screened in cinema theatres prior to the main feature film, each issue of Jornal had approximately ten minutes in length and covered a variety of official government acts, national political news, major sports events and other assorted social and cultural affairs. Jornal Português is not only an indispensable document for the history of Estado Novo's propaganda, but also an unparalleled audiovisual archive of 1940s Portugal.
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Title: Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
Character: Self
Released: September 26, 1964
Type: TV
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Title: Blick zurück im Film
Character: Self
Released: April 29, 1963
Type: TV
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV
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Title: Bambi Awards
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: TV
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
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Miquette
Title: Miquette
Character: Miquette Grandier
Released: May 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Miquette is a young woman whose beauty and vivacity increase the clientele of her mother's tobacco shop. A Barrymoresque actor believes that Miquette has star potential, but he hasn't sufficient capital to finance her theatrical debut. He manages to get the money by practicing a bit of genteel blackmail on an aging marquis who has romantic designs on the heroine.
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Schubert's Serenade
Title: Schubert's Serenade
Character: Margaret Brenton
Released: February 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Serenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an absence of two years. Based loosely on the life of composer Franz Schubert, the film casts Bernard Lancret as Schubert, Harvey as his dancer sweetheart, and Louis Jouvet as a possessive Baron who has his own designs on our heroine.
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Woman at the Wheel
Title: Woman at the Wheel
Character: Maria Kelemen
Released: June 19, 1939
Type: Movie
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Castles in the Air
Title: Castles in the Air
Character: Annie Wagner detta 'Mimì'
Released: March 19, 1939
Type: Movie
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Capriccio
Title: Capriccio
Character: Madelone alias Don Juan de Casanova
Released: August 10, 1938
Type: Movie
Lilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her grandfather as a boy in order to frighten away fortune hunters. But when the old man dies, her guardian Cesaire wants to marry her off to the rich prefect Barberousse. She is tricked by Cesaire with the portrait of a young man (Viktor von Staal) which is presented to her as that of her future husband. But when Madelone discovers this scheme she flees, again in men's clothing. But on her route to escape, she meets the young man from the portrait and falls in love with him. But Madelone can't give up her disguise right now...
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Fanny Elssler
Title: Fanny Elssler
Character: Fanny Elßler
Released: November 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Prince Klemens von Metternich orders Friedrich Gentz, one of his aides, to keep the Duke of Reichstadt---Napoleon Francois Joseph Charles---son of Napoleon and heir to the French throne, from thinking about French politics. Gentz enlists the help of ballerina Fanny Elsser, all the rage in several European capitals, to keep the Duke distracted.
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Seven Slaps
Title: Seven Slaps
Character: Daisy Terbanks
Released: August 2, 1937
Type: Movie
William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the stock-market manipulator is surprised the next day when he gets soundly slapped by MacPhab, and the latter promises to deliver one more a day for the next six days. Terbank's daughter, Daisy, is amused by the procedure and is attracted to MacPhab.
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Black Roses
Title: Black Roses
Character: Tania Fedorovna
Released: December 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Released in Germany as Schwarze Rosen, Black Roses represented the return to UFA studios of British musical comedy favorite Lillian Harvey, after several years in Hollywood. The delectable Harvey plays a Russian ballerina, stranded in turn-of-the-century Finland. She falls in love with sculptor Esmond Knight, a political dissident with a price on his head. To save Knight, Harvey spends the night with Tsarist governor Robert Rendel. The story is based on the real-life ballerina Marina Feodorovna, who ended up sacrificing her life on behalf of her lover. Black Roses was filmed in three languages: German, French and English; the English version was originally titled Did I Betray?
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Lucky Kids
Title: Lucky Kids
Character: Ann Garden
Released: September 19, 1936
Type: Movie
After completing work on the British musical Invitation to the Waltz, Lillian Harvey returned to her adopted country of Germany to star in the comedy-with-music Glueckskinder (Children of Fortune). Harvey plays Ann Garden, an unemployed actress who ends up in night court on a loitering charge. Here she meets Gil Taylor (Willy Fritsch), a struggling songwriter temporarily employed as a court reporter. Hoping to keep her out of jail, Gil impulsively tells the judge that he's engaged to Ann -- whereupon the judge, equally impulsively, marries the couple on the spot! After this inauspicious start, Ann and Gil embark upon a rocky (but tuneful) whirlwind romance.
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Black Roses
Title: Black Roses
Character: Tania Fedorovna
Released: December 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Erkki Collin is a hunted man. The Czar’s soldiers have been close on the heels of the leader of the rebellious Finns, who have been fighting the Russian occupiers since the end of the 18th Century. His flight leads him to the chambers of the dancer Marina Feodorowna, in whose house a party is taking place at that very moment. Marina discovers the intruder, hides him from his pursuers and soon falls in love with him. But hiding Erkki forever is not an option; so she presents him as her music teacher. The swindle fails and Prince Governor Abarow, who’s long had a thing for Marina, discovers the real identity of the man, but doesn’t have him arrested.
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Invitation To The Waltz
Title: Invitation To The Waltz
Character: Jenny Peachey
Released: October 1, 1935
Type: Movie
As the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.
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Let's Live Tonight
Title: Let's Live Tonight
Released: March 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Nick Kerry (Tullio Carminati) is a rich rounder who holds tremendous fascination over women......mainly because he is rich and has his own yacht. At Monte Carlo one evening he romances Kay Routledge (Lilian Harvey), a romantic young and gullible American girl. She takes the dilettante seriously and when he sails away on his yacht, she is heartbroken. But the memory of her haunts him, and brings him back from India and the arms of another woman,Countess Margot de Legere (Tala Birell),only to find Kay now engaged to his friend. Oh, what's a rich guy to do?
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I Am Suzanne!
Title: I Am Suzanne!
Character: Suzanne
Released: December 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
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My Lips Betray
Title: My Lips Betray
Character: Lili Wieler
Released: November 4, 1933
Type: Movie
In a make-believe, mittleuropean kingdom, a vivacious but dim country girl sings in a beer garden for her rent money. Meanwhile, the king is facing bankruptcy for his little nation, unless he marries a rich but undesirable queen of another comic opera principality. Eventually he takes in the struggling young singer, and they fall in love, despite possible ruin.
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My Weakness
Title: My Weakness
Character: Looloo Blake
Released: September 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin.
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The Only Girl
Title: The Only Girl
Character: Juliette
Released: June 17, 1933
Type: Movie
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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The Only Girl
Title: The Only Girl
Character: Juliette
Released: February 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A dashing marquis bends from his horse when he discovers a lost garter in the woods and falls. During his delirium he is serenaded by a little hairdresser. She is the person who lost the garter to begin with and has only come to get it back having borrowed it from her employer--the empress of France. The marquis mistakenly thinks he was nursed by the empress, herself, and decides to woo her.
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A Blonde Dream
Title: A Blonde Dream
Character: Jou-Jou
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Rival window cleaners Willy I and Willy 2 befriend Jou-Jou, an aspiring dancer, who has been tricked out of money by a con-man posing as an American movie mogul, and together they turn an old railway carriage into a "Villa Hollywood" for her.
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Happy Ever After
Title: Happy Ever After
Character: Jou-Jou
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Two window cleaners help a girl who is trying to get to Hollywood.
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Quick
Title: Quick
Character: Christine Dawson
Released: August 23, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman staying at a health spa (Lillian Harvey, goes to the theater every night to see "Quick" a comic performer, who wears clown make-up. She meets him off stage, without make-up and doesn't recognize him. He courts her, hoping she'll like him for himself but she maintains her crush on "Quick."
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Quick
Title: Quick
Character: Eva Prätorius
Released: August 7, 1932
Type: Movie
Lilian Harvey plays Eva, a young girl taking some time in a health spa and spending her evenings in the town's vaudeville theatre enamoured by a heavily made-up clown called Quick. Quick takes a shine to her and tries to woo her without make-up and masquerading as the theatre's manager. Unable to resolve her feelings for Quick and the theatre manager, Eva is angered when she finally learns that they are one and the same.
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Zwei Herzen und ein Schlag
Title: Zwei Herzen und ein Schlag
Character: Jenny Müller
Released: February 19, 1932
Type: Movie
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Congress Dances
Title: Congress Dances
Character: Chrystel
Released: December 3, 1931
Type: Movie
In 1815, Tsar Alexander I romances a working-class glove seller, while his double takes his place at the Vienna Congress. English-language version of Der Kongreß tanzt.
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The Congress Dances
Title: The Congress Dances
Character: Christel Weinzinger
Released: September 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant diversions to keep him out of the negotiation conferences of the 1815 Vienna Congress.
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Calais-Douvres
Title: Calais-Douvres
Released: September 18, 1931
Type: Movie
French language version of Nie wieder Liebe! (1931) Disgusted with love, a man bets 500,000 that he can live 5 years without a woman, joins a band of fellow women-haters, and manages to make it through 4 until he meets a troublesome young lady.
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No More Love
Title: No More Love
Character: Gladys O'Halloran
Released: July 26, 1931
Type: Movie
An American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them for five years. But after four and a half years traveling around on his yacht, he rescues a lady from drowning in the English Channel.
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Princess, At Your Orders!
Title: Princess, At Your Orders!
Character: La princesse Marie-Christine
Released: April 2, 1931
Type: Movie
Simultaneously made French version of "Ihre Hoheit Befiehlt": An officer, posing as a deli clerk, and a princess, posing as a manicurist, meet at a ball. The court especially the prime minister oppose a marriage, for political reasons.
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The girl and the boy
Title: The girl and the boy
Character: Jenny Berger / Ria Bella
Released: March 5, 1931
Type: Movie
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Burglars
Title: Burglars
Character: Renée
Released: December 15, 1930
Type: Movie
The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.
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The Road to Paradise
Title: The Road to Paradise
Character: Liliane Bourcart
Released: November 14, 1930
Type: Movie
Willy, Jean and Guy are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then they all fall in love for the same girl. Simultaneously filmed French version of the German musical "Die Drei von der Tankstelle".
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The Three from the Filling Station
Title: The Three from the Filling Station
Character: Lilian Cossmann
Released: September 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Die Drei von der Tankstelle, meaning The Three from the Gas Station, was advertised as a German operetta when release and with it’s star studded cast would become the forerunner of Musical films. Even today the soundtrack of the comic harmonists is popular in Germany.
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The Love Waltz
Title: The Love Waltz
Character: Princess Eva
Released: July 23, 1930
Type: Movie
Originally Liebeswalzer, this German operetta was the third talkie vehicle for the effervescent Lillian Harvey. The plot is a typical Graustarkian affair, with Princess Eva (Harvey) preparing to marry a duke whom she's never met. Getting cold feet, the duke ducks the wedding, persuading a handsome young commoner named Bobby (Willy Fritsch) to take his place. The wedding goes on as planned, with Eva never suspecting that her new hubby is a ringer. Eventually, the false duke confesses everything, leading to all sorts of intrigue before a happy ending can be realized. Love Waltz was simultaneously filmed in an English-language version, which posed no problem for the British-born Harvey but caused a few uncomfortable moments for her Teutonic co-stars (eventually, Willy Fritsch was replaced by John Batton, who'd played a bit role in the German version).
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The Temporary Widow
Title: The Temporary Widow
Character: Kitty Kellermann
Released: July 13, 1930
Type: Movie
Kitty Kellermann is put on trial for murdering her husband, a failed painter. When her counsel resigns from his mandate, the mysterious Peter Bille steps in, though it becomes apparent that he actually is not an advocate but Kitty's lover and moreover confesses the murder. The widow has to admit that the pictures by her deceased spouse sell much better, only for him to suddenly appear alive.
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Hokuspokus
Title: Hokuspokus
Character: Kitty Kellermann
Released: July 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Hokuspokus is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Oskar Homolka. It was an adaptation of the play Hokuspokus by Curt Goetz.
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Love waltz
Title: Love waltz
Character: Prinzessin Eva
Released: February 7, 1930
Type: Movie
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Wenn du einmal dein Herz verschenkst
Title: Wenn du einmal dein Herz verschenkst
Character: Dolly
Released: November 20, 1929
Type: Movie
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Adieu Mascotte
Title: Adieu Mascotte
Character: Mascotte
Released: August 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Based on a story by Michael Linsky, Adieu Mascotte revolves around an artist's model named Mascotte (Harvey) who ekes out a hand-to-mouth existence in the Parisian art colony. In dire need of money to finance a friend's operation, Mascotte auctions herself off at an artist's ball. She is "bought" by a novelist named Jean (Harry Halm), who merely wants to teach his flirtatious wife a lesson. Discreetly keeping his distance, Jean persuades Mascotte to pose as his mistress so that his wife will become jealous and return to his arms. Of course, things don't go as planned, and before long Jean and Mascotte have fallen in love.
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Ihr dunkler Punkt
Title: Ihr dunkler Punkt
Released: January 19, 1929
Type: Movie
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A Knight in London
Title: A Knight in London
Character: Aline Morland
Released: December 17, 1928
Type: Movie
A prince makes a socialite think she spent the night in his room.
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Thou Shalt Not Steal
Title: Thou Shalt Not Steal
Released: February 8, 1928
Type: Movie
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Vacation from Marriage
Title: Vacation from Marriage
Character: Hella
Released: December 13, 1927
Type: Movie
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Die tolle Lola
Title: Die tolle Lola
Character: Lola Cornero
Released: July 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Two women, one man all the amourous combinations and a lot of tango and waltzes being danced in this silent adaptation of the operette by Gustav Kadelburg.
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Vater werden ist nicht schwer...
Title: Vater werden ist nicht schwer...
Character: Harriet
Released: December 31, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Chaste Susanne
Title: The Chaste Susanne
Character: Jacqueline
Released: November 11, 1926
Type: Movie
Naughty Susanne leads an exciting double life between her hometown and Paris: in the provincial nest she is considered the ever virtuous and down to earth girl, while in the cosmopolitan city she always escapes to, she is the queen of the night, sophisticated and seductive. In Paris, she meets René and begins to recruit him, but she has a noble competitor: Jacqueline. A spirited love triangle begins, complicated by the interventions of uncomprehending moral preachers. Their befitting final finds the story in the Moulin Rouge.
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Prinzessin Trulala
Title: Prinzessin Trulala
Character: Prinzessin Trulala
Released: April 15, 1926
Type: Movie
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Die Kleine vom Bummel
Title: Die Kleine vom Bummel
Released: December 30, 1925
Type: Movie
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Liebe und Trompetenblasen
Title: Liebe und Trompetenblasen
Character: Komtesse Maria Charlotte
Released: August 13, 1925
Type: Movie
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Leidenschaft
Title: Leidenschaft
Character: Hella von Gilsa
Released: April 25, 1925
Type: Movie
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Der Fluch
Title: Der Fluch
Character: Ruth
Released: February 28, 1925
Type: Movie
A young Jewish woman in an Eastern European shtetl struggles to reconcile her aspirations with her duty to her family. As her lifestyle grows wilder, her mother is shocked by her immoral behaviour and commits suicide by drowning - repeating "the curse" which has haunted the family for centuries.