Tag Archives: 1920s

Flashback story of an escape from the lonely, high-security Dartmoor Prison. Read More »

Erni (Marlene Dietrich), the daughter of a wealthy industrialist Göttlinger (Fritz Alberti) falls for a pickpocket Fredl (Willi Forst) Read More »

The dancer, Diotima, meets an engineer and skier, Karl, in his cottage in the mountains where they fall in love and have an affair. Read More »

The true story of Lord Francis Hope who inherits the Hope Diamond and marries showgirl May Yohe. Read More »

The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. Read More »

Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. Read More »

Henriette and Louise, a foundling, are raised together as sisters. When Louise goes blind, Henriette swears to take care of her forever. Read More »

Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl. Read More »

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder. Read More »

This early example of the “backstage” musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling Read More »