Ernest Vajda

Vajda Ernő (Hungarian spelling), also: Ernö Vajda , Ernst Vajda , pseudonym: Sidney Garrick or Sydney Garrick (born May 27, 1886 in Komárno , then Austria-Hungary , now Slovakia ; † April 3, 1954 in Woodland Hills , California ) was a Hungarian screenwriter.

Life

Ernest Vajda, born Ernő Vajda, wrote comedies and musical novels when he started writing in Hungary. After the end of the First World War, the production company Sascha-Filmindustrie from Vienna hired him as a scriptwriter. Vajda worked a. a. together with the director Alexander Korda . He moved to the USA in the mid-1920s. Initially only working as a draftsman for scripts by other authors, he also wrote scripts himself from 1927. He was very successful as a co-author of several films by Ernst Lubitsch . From the late 1930s, his style was no longer in demand and Vajda stopped writing the film.

Filmography (selection)

1920: The fault of Lavinia Morland
1922: Samson and Delilah
1922: Lords of the Seas
1924: Hotel Potemkin
1924: Everyone's wife
1929: The Love Parade (The Love Parade)
1930: Monte Carlo
1931: The Smiling Lieutenant (The Smiling Lieutenant)
1931: The Guardsman
1931: The Man Who Driven His Conscience ( Broken Lullaby )
1932: Liebesleid (Smilin 'Through)
1932: Payment deferred
1933: Rendez-vous in Vienna (Reunion in Vienna)
1934: The Merry Widow (The Merry Widow)
1934: The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1936: A Woman rebels
1938: Marie-Antoinette
1938: Dramatic School
1941: Under the spell of the past (Smilin 'through)

Web links

Ernest Vajda in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ The Crown Prince (...) by Sidney Garrick (Ernst Vajda) (...). In: Die Bühne , year 1924, issue 1/1924, SI (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bue.
↑ Bibliography of the works of Hungarian literature published in independent volumes in German translation (1774–1999) . Compiled by Dr. Tiborc Fazekas . Self-published by the author, Hamburg 1999 [p. 182] ( Download PDF, 13.7 MB ).
↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 121.

personal data
SURNAME	Vajda, Ernest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Vajda, Ernő (maiden name); Vajda, Ernst; Garrick, Sidney (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 27, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Komárno , Austria-Hungary , today Slovakia
DATE OF DEATH	April 3, 1954
Place of death	Woodland Hills , California

[1] The Crown Prince (...) by Sidney Garrick (Ernst Vajda) (...). In: Die Bühne , year 1924, issue 1/1924, SI (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bue.

[2] Bibliography of the works of Hungarian literature published in independent volumes in German translation (1774–1999) . Compiled by Dr. Tiborc Fazekas . Self-published by the author, Hamburg 1999 [p. 182] ( Download PDF, 13.7 MB ).

[3] Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 121.