Paula Wessely

Paula Wessely

Born: January 20, 1907
Died: May 11, 2000
in Vienna, Austria
Paula Anna Maria Wessely (20 January 1907 – 11 May 2000) was an Austrian theatre and film actress. Die Wessely (literally "The Wessely"), as she was affectionately called by her admirers and fans, was Austria's foremost popular postwar actress.

Movies for Paula Wessely...

Eine Stadt als Bühne - 100 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele
Title: Eine Stadt als Bühne - 100 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele
Character: self
Released: August 2, 2020
Type: Movie
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Der Unbestechliche
Title: Der Unbestechliche
Released: January 8, 1984
Type: Movie
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Glücksachen
Title: Glücksachen
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
For thirty years Anna sat at the checkout in the supermarket; now she is retired and doesn't know what to do with her life. She drifts through Viennese museums and cafés until one day in the park she gets into a conversation with a group of bikers. And suddenly the old lady reveals quite unexpected talents ...
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Nichts als Erinnerung
Title: Nichts als Erinnerung
Character: Militza
Released: January 6, 1974
Type: Movie
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Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
Title: Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
Character: Self
Released: October 30, 1973
Type: Movie
"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director, director, theater producer and theater founder. With his Jedermann production on August 22, 1920, he founded the Salzburg Festival.
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Von Reinhardt bis Karajan - 50 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele
Title: Von Reinhardt bis Karajan - 50 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele
Character: Hero (archive footage)
Released: August 16, 1970
Type: Movie
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Fast ein Poet
Title: Fast ein Poet
Character: Nora Melody
Released: May 30, 1968
Type: Movie
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Port Royal
Title: Port Royal
Character: Schwester Angelika vom hl. Johannes
Released: May 14, 1965
Type: Movie
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Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
Title: Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
Character: Mrs. Arbuthnot
Released: September 17, 1964
Type: Movie
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Überfahrt
Title: Überfahrt
Character: Mrs. Midget
Released: January 13, 1963
Type: Movie
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Everyman
Title: Everyman
Character: Glaube
Released: December 21, 1961
Type: Movie
Everyman (German: Jedermann) is a 1961 Austrian drama film directed by Gottfried Reinhardt, based on the play written by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The film was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 34th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.
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Anatol
Title: Anatol
Character: Gabriele
Released: December 15, 1961
Type: Movie
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Der Bauer als Millionär
Title: Der Bauer als Millionär
Character: Die Zufriedenheit
Released: November 24, 1961
Type: Movie
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Das weite Land
Title: Das weite Land
Character: Genia Hofreiter
Released: June 6, 1960
Type: Movie
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Die unvollkommene Ehe
Title: Die unvollkommene Ehe
Character: Frau Dr. Winifred Lert
Released: September 3, 1959
Type: Movie
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The Third Sex
Title: The Third Sex
Character: Christa Teichmann
Released: August 29, 1957
Type: Movie
Klaus is a young man in post-war Berlin. He is drawn to his friend Manfred and, under the encouragement of their acquaintance, Dr. Winkler, explore the underground world of gay clubs and electronic music. His family begins to learn of his other life and do everything they can to set him straight.
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Noch minderjährig
Title: Noch minderjährig
Character: Luise Gottschalk
Released: May 31, 1957
Type: Movie
"Under 18" - The social worker Luise Gottschalk dedicates all her passion to the Viennese caretakers and derailed young people. Tirelessly, she advertises to adults for understanding the needs of adolescents. She is particularly committed to a girl named Elfie Breitner.
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Maria Stuart
Title: Maria Stuart
Character: Königin Maria Stuart von Schottland
Released: January 6, 1957
Type: Movie
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Die Wirtin zur Goldenen Krone
Title: Die Wirtin zur Goldenen Krone
Character: Fürstin Pia Maria
Released: December 20, 1955
Type: Movie
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Weg in die Vergangenheit
Title: Weg in die Vergangenheit
Character: Gabriele Gärtner
Released: December 20, 1954
Type: Movie
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The Light of Love
Title: The Light of Love
Character: Käthe Zeller
Released: July 31, 1954
Type: Movie
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Ich und meine Frau
Title: Ich und meine Frau
Character: Sophie Naglmüller
Released: August 3, 1953
Type: Movie
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Maria Theresia
Title: Maria Theresia
Character: Maria Theresia
Released: December 18, 1951
Type: Movie
A biography of the eighteenth century Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa.
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV
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Cordula
Title: Cordula
Character: Cordula
Released: September 27, 1950
Type: Movie
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Vagabunden
Title: Vagabunden
Character: Dr. Elisabeth Kamma
Released: October 17, 1949
Type: Movie
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The Angel with the Trumpet
Title: The Angel with the Trumpet
Character: Henriette Alt, geb. Stein
Released: August 19, 1948
Type: Movie
A long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the years after world war II) is reflected in the ups and downs of a family of piano-makers in Vienna.
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Leckerbissen
Title: Leckerbissen
Character: Self - film scenes (archive footage)
Released: June 5, 1948
Type: Movie
"Gems" - Embedded in a frame story, the film shows excerpts from 18 entertainment films of the time, among others, "The Gypsy Baron", "The Three Codonas", "La Habanera", "Viennese Blood", "Sophienlund", and "Mask in Blue".
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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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Das Herz muß schweigen
Title: Das Herz muß schweigen
Character: Maximiliane Frey
Released: December 19, 1944
Type: Movie
On New Year's Eve 1900, Paul Holzgruber started a new praxis as a radiologist. The young Maximiliane Frey is his assistant and they have worked side by side for years helping people. Holzgruber repeatedly points out the dangers of radiation to Maximiliane, but is silent about the ulcers on his hand and the severe pain they have caused. Maximiliane has gotten to know the widower Axel von Bonin and has fallen in love with him. But then she is diagnosed with incurable cancer. To spare Axel the inevitable grief over her impending death, she leaves him and dedicates what is left her life to medicine.
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Die kluge Marianne
Title: Die kluge Marianne
Released: June 10, 1943
Type: Movie
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Späte Liebe
Title: Späte Liebe
Character: Sophie von Angerspang
Released: February 16, 1943
Type: Movie
A drama about marriage in a small town, which takes place at the turn of the 19th into the 20th Century.
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Homecoming
Title: Homecoming
Character: Maria Thomas
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A Nazi propaganda film which aims to justify the invasion of Poland by portraying the plight of ethnic Germans in Poland who were discriminated against and oppressed by the Poles, and how they were saved by the intervention of the German army.
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Ein Leben lang
Title: Ein Leben lang
Character: Agnes Seethaler
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
In 1910, the landlord's daughter Agnes from the Steiermark gets to know the diplomat Hans. They have a short love affair and then part from one another. Hans gets sent to Beijing, where he marries and American and has a son with her. Agnes, too, has a son by Hans and moves to Vienna, where she works in a restaurant. She is still in love with Hans ...
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Maria Ilona
Title: Maria Ilona
Character: Maria Ilona von Wolkersdorf
Released: December 14, 1939
Type: Movie
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Spiegel des Lebens
Title: Spiegel des Lebens
Character: Johanna 'Hanna' Karfreit
Released: June 7, 1938
Type: Movie
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Die ganz großen Torheiten
Title: Die ganz großen Torheiten
Character: Therese Brandl
Released: April 29, 1937
Type: Movie
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Die Julika
Title: Die Julika
Character: Julika
Released: October 25, 1936
Type: Movie
1936 Austrian film.
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Episode
Title: Episode
Character: Valerie Gärtner
Released: October 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Vienna, 1922. Due to a sudden financial tragedy, a young woman begins accepting checks from an older, rich gentleman for companionship in order for her to keep attending college. Their relationship is purely platonic, but eventually she begins a romance with the tutor of the older man's sons who has a completely wrong impression as to the nature of her arrangement with his employer.
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So Ended a Great Love
Title: So Ended a Great Love
Character: Grand Duchess Marie Louise
Released: October 17, 1934
Type: Movie
The political advisor to the French emperor Napoleon, and the Austrian emperor Franz I, arrange a marriage between Napoleon and the Austrian archduchess Marie-Luise in order to prevent another war.
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Masquerade in Vienna
Title: Masquerade in Vienna
Character: Leopoldine Dur
Released: September 27, 1934
Type: Movie
After a masked carnival ball, Gerda Harrandt, wife of the surgeon Carl Ludwig Harrandt, allows the fashionable artist Ferdinand von Heidenick to paint a portrait of her wearing only a mask and a muff. This muff however belongs to Anita Keller, in secret the painter's lover but also the fiancée of the court orchestra director Paul Harrandt. The picture is then published in the newspaper. When Paul sees it and asks von Heidenick some questions about the identity of the model, the artist is forced to improvise a story and on the spur of the moment invents a woman called Leopoldine Dur as the alleged model. Leopoldine Dur however turns out to be a real woman whose acquaintance Heidenick makes shortly afterwards.