Paul Martin (director)

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Paul Martin (born February 8, 1899 in Mariolana , Kingdom of Hungary , † January 23, 1967 in West Berlin ) was a Hungarian director of entertainment films, especially music films and film operettas.

life and work

After graduating from high school, Paul Martin took part in the First World War as an Austro-Hungarian officer from 1916 to 1918. He studied medicine and became a provisional in a pharmacy.

He came to film as an actor in silent films. At the beginning of the 1930s he worked in Berlin as an assistant director for films such as The Burning Heart (1929), The Congress Dances (1931) and Bombs on Monte Carlo (1931). In 1931 he and Hans Hinrich directed the Hans Albers film Der Sieger for the first time . For the first time he was the sole director of his next work, A Blonde Dream . The overwhelming success of this musical comedy with Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch earned him an invitation to Hollywood .

There he got an engagement at 20th Century Fox , but his film Orient Express flopped. Martin returned to Germany in 1935. At Lilian Harvey's instigation, he received another contract with Ufa . With Glückskinder (1936) he had another outstanding success. Until 1939 he worked mainly with Lilian Harvey. Most of his films, which at that time also included Sieben Ohrfeigen (1937), Jenny and the Lord in Tails (1941) and Mask in Blue (1942), were set in the revue and operetta milieu. Martin was mostly involved as a co-screenwriter. Not for the performance came A Prussian Love Story (1938) because of the participation of the Czech actress Lída Baarová and her former affair with Joseph Goebbels .

After 1945 Paul Martin directed primarily hit films about Caterina Valente and Peter Alexander and other comedies. Most recently he also worked for television.

From 1931 to 1938 he was the partner of Lilian Harvey , with whom he lived in a joint estate in Hungary. When Lilian Harvey found out about his affair with the actress Frauke Lauterbach in 1938, she separated from him. In 1939 Martin married Frauke Lauterbach , who from then on worked on his films as a dialogue director.

His grave at the Dahlem forest cemetery has now been lifted.

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SURNAME Martin, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Mariolana , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1967
Place of death Berlin