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Finances of the Grand Duke AKA Die Finanzen des Großherzogs (1924) F.W. Murnau, Mady Christians, Harry Liedtke, Robert Scholtz
Director F.W. Murnau and scriptwriter Thea von Harbou both took a change of pace Read More »
Ship Cafe (1935) Robert Florey, Carl Brisson, Arline Judge, Mady Christians
Address Unknown (1944) William Cameron Menzies, Paul Lukas, Mady Christians, Morris Carnovsky
Martin Schulz (Paul Lukas), a German/American art dealer, returns to Germany at the outbreak of World War Two Read More »
All My Sons (1948) Irving Reis, Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians
All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing. Read More »
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) Max Ophüls, Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Drama, Romance
In Vienna, about 1900, a dashing man arrives at his flat, instructing his manservant that he will leave before morning: the man is Stefan Brand, formerly a concert pianist, planning to leave Vienna to avoid a duel. His servant gives him a letter from an unknown woman, which he reads. In flashbacks we see the lifelong passion of Lisa Berndle for him: first as a girl who was his neighbor; next as a young woman who, in secret, has his child; then as a mature woman who meets him again and abandons husband and son to be with him. Each time he does not remember who she is or that they have ever met. By morning, he has finished the letter, and her husband awaits satisfaction.
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