• Paul Leni (born Paul Josef Levi; 8 July 1885 – 2 September 1929) was a German filmmaker and a key figure in German Expressionism, making Hintertreppe (1921)...
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    Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (German: [ˈleː.niː ˈʁiː.fn̩.ʃtaːl] ; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, photographer...
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    The Cat and the Canary (1927 film) (category Films directed by Paul Leni)
    silent comedy horror film directed by the German Expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni. An adaptation of John Willard's 1922 black-comedy play of the same name...
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    The Man Who Laughs (1928 film) (category Films directed by Paul Leni)
    sound romantic drama film directed by the German Expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized...
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  • Leni or leni in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Leni is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Male and female: Leni...
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    (Leni Stern, 2007) Alu Mayé (Have You Heard) (Leni Stern, 2007) Sa Belle Belle Ba (Leni Stern, 2010) Sabani (Leni Stern, 2012) Smoke, No Fire (Leni Stern...
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  • Hintertreppe (German for Backstairs), Jessner's first film (co-directed with Paul Leni), exemplified Jessner's use of heavily stylized staircases. These staircases...
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  • parooni". Mykkäelokuvat (in Finnish). Retrieved October 24, 2021. Brenner, Paul. "The Phantom of the Opera". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011. Richardson...
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    Waxworks (film) (category Films directed by Paul Leni)
    Wachsfigurenkabinett) is a 1924 German silent anthology film directed by Paul Leni. Its stories are linked by a plot thread about a writer (William Dieterle)...
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    Albert Capellani. Dornröschen (1917), a German silent film directed by Paul Leni. Dornröschen (1929), a German silent film directed by Dorothy Douglas...
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    choice to direct the movie version of Dracula after the death of director Paul Leni, who had originally been slated to direct. California's descendibility...
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    French Byzantinist Paul Leni (1885–1929), German filmmaker Paul Léon (1874–1962), French art professor and historiographer Paul LePage (born 1948), American...
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    the Wise, based on the play by Lessing. He was prominently featured in Paul Leni's Waxworks (1924), F.W. Murnau's Tartuffe, and The Student of Prague (1926)...
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  • – (GB) Lonesome, directed by Paul Fejos, starring Glenn Tryon and Barbara Kent The Man Who Laughs, directed by Paul Leni, starring Mary Philbin, Conrad...
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    "Devil in Jersey City" (Live at the Starland Ballroom) Coheed and Cambria 2024 "The Joke" Max Moore "Deranged" (2024 mix) Coheed and Cambria and Paul Leni...
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  • Spencer G. Bennet 1926 Lost Silent Pathé Exchange The Chinese Parrot Sojin Paul Leni 1927 Lost Silent Universal Behind That Curtain E.L. Park Irving Cummings...
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    The Last Warning (category Films directed by Paul Leni)
    Warning is a 1928 sound part-talkie American mystery film directed by Paul Leni, and starring Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, and Margaret Livingston....
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  • Sedgwick, starring Jackie Coogan The Cat and the Canary, directed by Paul Leni, starring Laura La Plante and Creighton Hale, based on the 1922 stage...
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    plot. The Man Who Laughs (1928), an American silent film directed by Paul Leni and starring Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin and Olga Baclanova. Veidt's appearance...
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    Rochus Gliese, Albin Grau, Otto Hunte, Alfred Junge, Erich Kettelhut and Paul Leni – and that effect was felt abroad as many of these talents later emigrated...
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  • starring Wallace Beery Waxworks (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett), directed by Paul Leni, starring Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt and Werner Krauss – (Germany) What...
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    by German Expressionism. He was a particular admirer of the films of Paul Leni, combining as they did elements of gothic horror and comedy. This influence...
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  • directors Erich Kettelhut, Paul Leni and Erich Zander. In alphabetical order Lena Amsel Charlotte Ander Irmgard Bern as Yvonne Paul Biensfeldt Marlene Dietrich...
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  • The Chinese Parrot (film) (category Films directed by Paul Leni)
    mystery film, the second in the Charlie Chan series. It was directed by Paul Leni and starred Japanese actor Sōjin Kamiyama as Chan. The film is an adaptation...
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  • novel The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo. The film was later remade by Paul Leni in 1928 as The Man Who Laughs, which starred Conrad Veidt in the Gwynplaine...
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    company settled on an original story and hired German Kammerspielfilm director Paul Czinner to direct. The resulting film, The Way of Lost Souls (also known...
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    Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Julanne Johnston United States Silent film Waxworks Paul Leni Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, William Dieterle Germany Silent film 1925...
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  • 1894) August 2 – Mae Costello, American actress (born 1882) September 2 – Paul Leni, German film and art director (born 1885) October 3 – Jeanne Eagels, American...
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  • That Dripped Blood, Stray Cat Publishing, 2000 p 93 Milne, Tom. Willemin, Paul. Hardy, Phil. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Horror, Octopus Books, 1986. ISBN 0-7064-2771-8...
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    atmospheric presentation" of the film was arranged by German director Paul Leni. Several posters and lobby cards still exist from the film. Silent Madden...
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