The Merry Widow is a 1925 American silent romantic drama, black comedy film directed and written by Erich von Stroheim. Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
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the operetta Films The Merry Widow (1918 film), a Hungarian silent film directed by Michael Curtiz The Merry Widow (1925 film), a silent film directed by...
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The Merry Widow (German: Die lustige Witwe [diː ˈlʊstɪɡə ˈvɪtvə]) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor...
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Ida Moore (category People of the silent film era)
Courtroom Observer (uncredited) The Merry Widow (1925 film) (1925) as Innkeeper's Wife (uncredited) Thank You (1925 film) (1925) as Gossiping Woman Cutie on...
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overview of 1925 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. The top ten 1925 released films by box office...
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John Gilbert (actor) (category American male film actors)
the silent era and became a popular leading man known as "The Great Lover". His breakthrough came in 1925 with his starring roles in The Merry Widow and...
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Roy D'Arcy (category American male film actors)
1925 and 1939, such as Erich Von Stroheim 's The Merry Widow (1925) and The Temptress (1926) with Greta Garbo. Finishing his film career around the age...
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Ernst Lubitsch filmography (category Films directed by Ernst Lubitsch)
of One Hour With You Short section of a larger "omnibus" film French version of The Merry Widow co-directed with George Cukor Alexander Korda production...
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Dale Fuller (actress) (category American film actresses)
her to the stock company of actors that year. Fuller continued to work with von Stroheim, playing a chambermaid in his 1925 film The Merry Widow and as...
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Franz Lehár (category Burials at the Bad Ischl Friedhof)
for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe). Lehár was born in the northern part of Komárom, Kingdom...
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Mae Murray (redirect from The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips)
appeared in the title role in the Erich von Stroheim-directed film The Merry Widow (1925), with John Gilbert. When silent films gave way to sound film, she debuted...
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Anielka Elter (category Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States)
her first success in America with The Merry Widow (1925). She had an uncredited role as a blindfolded musician. The movie was directed by Erich Von Stroheim...
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William Daniels (cinematographer) (category Presidents of the American Society of Cinematographers)
and Gold (1925) The Merry Widow (1925) Dance Madness (1925) Torrent (1926) The Boob (1926) Monte Carlo (1926) Money Talks (1926) Bardelys the Magnificent...
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Fine Clothes (1925) The Merry Widow (1925) Memory Lane (1926) The Gay Deceiver (1926) Wild Oats Lane (1926) Flesh and the Devil (1926) The Lady in Ermine...
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Shadow of a Doubt (redirect from Shadow of a Doubt (1943 film))
as the "Merry Widow" killer. The fear escalates when Oakley realizes she knows his secret. In 1991, the film was selected for preservation in the United...
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The Danger Signal is a 1925 melodrama film directed by Erle C. Kenton. As described in a film magazine, the story starts in 1904 with the railroad president...
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Jacqueline Gadsden (category American film actresses)
Shebanoff The Wife of the Centaur (1924) The Flaming Forties (1924) Man and Maid (1924) Ridin' the Wind (1925) The Merry Widow (1925) The Show (1927)...
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Donald Brian (category Immigrants to the United States)
In 1907, he starred in the hit operetta The Merry Widow. Brian, a tenor, was employed in a Boston machine shop and, at the age of 16, began performing...
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Oscar Straus (composer) (category Austrian film score composers)
the Überbrettl cabaret. He went back to Vienna and began writing operettas, becoming a serious rival to Franz Lehár. When Lehár's popular The Merry Widow...
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Ralph Truman (category English male film actors)
(1951), the French herald Mountjoy in Laurence Olivier's film Henry V (1944), the evil Monks in David Lean's Oliver Twist (1948), George Merry in the Walt...
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Nora Cecil (category American film actresses)
Lubitsch's historical romance The Merry Widow, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald; the 1939 version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...
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best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (The Love Parade, Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow and One Hour With You) and Nelson...
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Jeanette MacDonald (category American film actresses)
best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (The Love Parade, Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow and One Hour With You) and Nelson...
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D'Arcy Corrigan (category American male film actors)
Christmas Future The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) - Tortured Prisoner The Great Commandment (1939) - Blind Man The Merry Widow (1925) - Horatio My Old...
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more expensive The Merry Widow in order to prevent von Stroheim from getting a percentage of the more profitable film. The Merry Widow ended up being...
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Josephine Crowell (category Canadian film actresses)
Flowing Gold (1924) The Sporting Venus (1925) Zander the Great (1925) Welcome Home (1925) The Merry Widow (1925) New Brooms (1925) Yellow Fingers (1926)...
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Helene Stanton (category 1925 births)
Opera Company, she was asked in 1943 to sing in a stage version of The Merry Widow, before being persuaded to swap from classical to popular music upon...
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(1923) The Unknown Purple (1923) Daring Love (1924) Married Flirts (1924) Circe, the Enchantress (1924) The Merry Widow (1925) The Midshipman (1925) Time...
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Minna Gombell (category American film actresses)
before returning to film under her real name. She appeared in some fifty Hollywood films including: Block-Heads, The Merry Widow, The First Year, Boom Town...
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Curtis Bernhardt (category Film directors from Rhineland-Palatinate)
(1947) Possessed (1947) The Doctor and the Girl (1949) Sirocco (1951) Payment on Demand (1951) The Blue Veil (1951) The Merry Widow (1952) Miss Sadie Thompson...
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