The queen of the world bath
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The queen of the world bath |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1926 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Victor Janson |
| script | Adolf Lantz , Jane Bess |
| production | Alfred Sittarz |
| music | Austin Egen |
| camera | Otto Kanturek |
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The Queen of World Baths is the title of a German silent film that Victor Janson made in 1926 for Alfred Sittarz's national film production in Berlin .
action
The sensational rise of the little seamstress Micheline Bonnard into the 'big world' of lords and princesses, mannequins, artists and players with their confusions and intrigues against the glamorous backdrop of the 'world bath' Baden-Baden .
background
The screenplay was written by Adolf Lantz and Jane Bess based on the novel of the same name by Edward Stilgebauer . Otto Kanturek took care of the photography, Heinrich Lisson was the production manager . The stage design was created by the Russian-born film architect Jacek Rotmil . The pianist, pop singer and music publisher Austin Egen wrote the film music and the main hit from it, “Charlie-Charleston”.
The film was presented to the Berlin censorship office on December 9, 1926. The premiere of the film took place on December 10, 1926 in the UFA Theater Tauentzienpalast in Berlin. It has also been shown in Portugal and France . There he ran under the title “La Carrière d'une midinette”. This title was used as “The Diary of a Midinette” as a second distribution title in Germany and Austria. The distribution company was National-Film AG Berlin.
Sound document from it: the Charlie-Charleston (Austin Egen) recorded the orchestra of Bernard Etté on VOX records.
reception
Reviews of "The Queen of the World Bath" appeared in:
- "Illustrierter Film-Kurier" (Germany), "Film-Kurier" GmbH (Verlag Alfred Weiner, GmbH Berlin W 9), Issue 548, 1926, p. 8 ("The Queen of the World Bath");
- "Le Film Complet du Dimanche" (Paris, France), Le Film Complet, Vol. 7, Iss. 578, November 4, 1928, p. 16 ("La Carrière d'une midinette", V. Martin).
- In the magazine 'Deutsche Filmwoche' 1926, No. 51, Imogene Robertson is shown on the cover in "The Queen of the World Bath"; here she takes the pose that was also used on the cinema poster by Margit Doppler from the Atelier Trio [poster Franz Adametz] (ÖNB inventory number PLA16301337). On the poster, “The Queen of World Baths” is advertised as “The film of the most beautiful woman”.
literature
- Frank Arnau (Ed.): Universal Filmlexikon 1932. Berlin / London, 1932
- International Federation of Film Archives (Ed.): Film Titles, General Index, Volumes 1-10; Volume 11, Part 1 by Krautz, Alfred: International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers in Film. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1992. ISBN 3111449173 , length 406 pages. Here: Vol. 4, p. 321, 584
- Christian Maryszka: Interview with Margit Doppler on December 10, 1998
- "La Carrière d'une midinette" Documentation for the film, 1927, 10 pages
- Wolfgang Stanicek: Austin Egen. Schlager composer, singer and music publisher. Dissertation, University of Vienna. Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies 2010 - on line publication at grammophon-platten.de [3]
- Kay Less: 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...' Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria 1933 to 1945: A complete overview. Acabus biography. ACABUS Verlag, 2011. ISBN 3862821420 , length 664 pages. Here: pp. 18, 120, 231, 256, 349-350, 449, 596 (on Paul Morgan), p. 233 (on Ferdinand Hart), p. 432 (on Jacek Rotmil), p. 1927 (on Jane Bess )
- Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. The history of cinematography and its predecessors. Berlin, Rembrandt-Verlag 1956. Here: pp. 427, 449, and picture panels.
Web links
- The Queen of the World bath in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The queen of the world bath at filmportal.de
- The Queen of the World Bathing poster by Margit Doppler from the Austrian picture archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. imdb
- ↑ Vox 08359 (. Mx 1157 AA, January 1927) (30 cm); VOX 8360 (mx. 1156-BB, Jan. 1927), VOX 8406 (mx. 1156-BB, March 1927) (25 cm), cf. Aitam Bar-Sagi [1] and Rainer Lotz, Vox online discography [2]
- ↑ cf. Less, Personal Lexicon Volume 6, p. 574
- ↑ cf. austrianposters.at Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. where it says of her: Margit Doppler (1909-2001) was one of the earliest and most successful Austrian commercial graphic artists: She began under the name of Kováts, subsequently signed in part with Kovács, was part of the Ateliers Trio, then worked in Joseph's studio Binder and traded under the name Doppler after their marriage.
