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    Emil Jannings (born Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz, 23 July 1884 – 2 January 1950) was a Swiss-born German actor who was popular in Hollywood films in the...
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    (uncredited) The film is a melodrama starring Emil Jannings, Belle Bennett, and Phyllis Haver. Jannings won the first Academy Award for Best Actor for...
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    yielded its foremost actor Emil Jannings and producer Erich Pommer to make a number of movies in Hollywood. Sternberg and Jannings had established a friendly...
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    presented 97 times, to 86 actors. The first winner was German actor Emil Jannings for his roles in The Last Command (1928) and The Way of All Flesh (1927)...
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    sister studio in Germany, UFA, asked him to direct Emil Jannings in his first sound film. Jannings was the Oscar-winning star of Sternberg's 1928 film...
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  • Czechoslovakia Emil Hedvall (born 1983), Swedish footballer Emil G. Hirsch (1852–1923), American rabbi Emil Jannings (1884–1950), German actor Emil Johansson...
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    Unlike later ceremonies, an actor could be awarded for multiple films: Emil Jannings won Best Actor for his work in both The Way of All Flesh and The Last...
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    W. Murnau from a screenplay written by Carl Mayer. The film stars Emil Jannings and Maly Delschaft. Stephen Brockmann summarized the film's plot as...
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  • 1941 German biographical film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich, and Werner Hinz. It was one of a series of major propaganda...
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    very prominent figure of the Kammerspielfilm movement) and starring Emil Jannings. The film introduced the subjective point of view camera, where the...
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    realize that the last experience was a dream. (6 minutes) Emil Jannings as Harun al-Rashid: Jannings plays the role of the pot-bellied Caliph Harun al-Rashid...
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    film directed by Gabriellino D'Annunzio and Georg Jacoby and starring Emil Jannings, Elena Sangro, and Lillian Hall-Davis. It is based on the 1896 novel...
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    the throne, eventually leading to the Tsar's death. The film stars Emil Jannings, Florence Vidor, and Lewis Stone. The film won the Academy Award for...
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    collaborative relations between the director and its Academy Award-winning star Emil Jannings and producer Erich Pommer, both temporarily on loan from Paramount's...
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  • Walter Huston (1883–1950) Rex Ingram (1895–1969) Burl Ives (1909–1995) Emil Jannings (1884–1950) Ben Johnson (1918–1996) Van Johnson (1916–2008) Al Jolson...
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  • German historical comedy film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Emil Jannings, Friedrich Kayßler and Max Gülstorff. It is an adaptation of the play...
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    costumes were by Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. The film starred Emil Jannings as Tartuffe, Lil Dagover as Elmire and Werner Krauss as Orgon. Based...
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    directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It stars Henny Porten as Anne Boleyn and Emil Jannings as King Henry VIII. The film was produced by Paul Davidson's Union Film...
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    produced by Ufa, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Gösta Ekman as Faust, Emil Jannings as Mephisto, Camilla Horn as Gretchen/Marguerite, Frida Richard as her...
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    Hanna Henning and starring Hermann Böttcher, Wilhelm Diegelmann, and Emil Jannings. The art direction was by Hans Sohnle. In alphabetical order Hermann...
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    Kräly with the title role taken by Pola Negri and Louis XV played by Emil Jannings. Its alternative title for United States distribution was Passion. It...
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    starring role in director Georg Jacoby's Keimendes Leben, Teil 1, opposite Emil Jannings. The film serial was followed by Keimendes Leben, Teil 2 in 1919. One...
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    last non-speaking performance by Germany's Emil Jannings, and the only onscreen pairing of Cooper and Jannings. It is considered a lost film. Swiss peasant...
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  • The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Mann), directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Emil Jannings – (Germany) Little Robinson Crusoe, directed by Edward F. Cline, starring...
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  • Comedy Emil Jannings, Ossi Oswalda, Margarete Kupfer Writer, actor 1917 Das fidele Gefängnis The Merry Jail PAGU Comedy Harry Liedtke, Emil Jannings, Kitty...
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  • the Young King 100 min Historical film Deka-Film GmbH Hans Steinhoff Emil Jannings Leopoldine Konstantin 28 March 1935 Triumph des Willens Triumph of the...
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    silent comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Henny Porten, Emil Jannings and Jakob Tiedtke. It is an adaptation of the play Kohlhiesel's Daughters...
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    He falls in love with the new star, and the story ends in tragedy. Emil Jannings as Boss Huller Maly Delschaft as wife of Boss Lya De Putti as Bertha...
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    the role include Friedrich Kühne in the 1922 silent version starring Emil Jannings, Hilton Edwards in Orson Welles' 1952 film, Anthony Nicholls in Laurence...
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  • It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin. Matthias Clausen (Emil Jannings) is the head of Clausen Works, an old and prosperous munitions firm...
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