Anny Ondra
Actor · 1902 – 1987 · Tarnów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Tarnów, Malopolskie, Poland]
Anny Ondra (May 15 1903 – February 28 1987) was a Czech film actress. She was born Anna Sophie Ondráková in Tarnów, Galicia, Austria–Hungary, now Poland. She began her career in 1920 and appeared in Czech, German, Austrian, French and English films. In 1933, she married German boxing champion Max Schmeling. She died in Hollenstedt near Harburg, Germany. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anny Ondra, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies24
- Movie8.0Comedy
A Carl Lamac directed movie based on a novel by Karel Václav Rais.
Movie8.0DramaRomanceAfter a young man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, the daughter of the local tavern owners must spring to the rescue.
Movie6.5DramaThrillerLondon, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.
Blackmail
1929 · 288 votes
- Movie9.0ComedyRomance
The head of a squad of maids captures the heart of a wealthy young bachelor.
Movie6.0RomanceDramaA fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
The Manxman
1929 · 94 votes
Movie8.0ComedyMusicSchön muß man sein
1951 · 1 votes
Movie7.0MusicComedyThe daughter of the Parisian countess Lafitte, named "Baby", is supposed to go to an English boarding school, but she's much more interested in variety shows. Nevertheless, she travels with her friend Susette to London, who also wants to make a career for herself as a showgirl. During the journey, Baby is mistakenly considered to be a showgirl and she does nothing to dissuade two young English lords from believing so. The girls continue to live under false pretenses even when they arrive in England, with Baby being a soloist with the group "Babies" and Suzette passing herself off as the Contessa Lafitte for school exams. At the end -- a double marriage.
Baby
1932 · 2 votes
Movie4.5ComedyDer Unwiderstehliche
1937 · 4 votes
Movie8.0MusicFilm by Karel Lamac.
Movie6.0ComedyDocumentaryA brief sound test made during production of Blackmail (1929), featuring Alfred Hitchcock playfully teasing lead actress Anny Ondra as she struggles to respond on camera. Photographed by Jack E. Cox, the clip was shot to test the new sound recording system for what would become Hitchcock’s first talkie.
Sound Test for Blackmail
1929 · 20 votes
- Movie8.0Comedy
A woman discovers after she has just married him, that her husband is abusive, and she tries to get away.
- Movie10.0Drama
Palimpsest
1919 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyA young woman poses as a boy to ingratiate herself better with her strict aristocratic grandfather and to get him to better accept the new freer ways of the younger generation.
Movie5.2DramaKiki who has a walk-on part in a show, is in love with her director, who doesn't notice her at all. She settles into his home and causes him to break up with his lover, the star of the show; and finally manages to make him love her.
Kiki
1932 · 5 votes
Movie6.4ComedyRomanceJuliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner's closest friend and from then on things become very complicated...
Movie6.8CrimeAdventureProfessor Grant signs a contract with Dr. Selin for the sale of his invention of cold light with the plans for his invention being kept in Grant's apartment. The negotiations are secretly heard by the illusionist Durk, who wants to seize the invention. A few days later Selín is found dead, killed by a light bulb filled with poisonous gas. Durk performs at the birthday party of Grant's daughter Anna and seizes the plans for the invention.
Movie6.6MusicGerman all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.
Movie7.0ComedyMusicMarianne is an accountant, but since she is so pretty the employment agency sends her to the theater. There, Max's gaffer falls in love with Marianne and persuades her to stay at the theater. Once he has to defend her against a professional boxer who harasses her. Although Max loses his position, but receives an offer from Box Manager Schmidtchen. When Max learns that Marianne is engaged, he goes to Schmidtchen's boxing school in Hamburg.
Knockout – Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann
1935 · 5 votes
Movie9.0ComedySündig und süß
1929 · 1 votes
Movie7.5ComedyMax and Karla visit his deceased uncle's farming estate where it is confirmed that they will inherit it. Financial expert Max tries to manage the farm but collides with manager Georg whom Max soon suspects to have an affair with Karla.
Movie8.0Seine Hoheit, der Eintänzer
1927 · 1 votes
Movie8.3MusicComedyAnny Brabcová is Sabine Veldenová's maid. She would very much like to get the main role in the new musical "The Pink Letter", in which Veldenová plays. Anna's brother, the easy-going postman Jarda Brabec gets the lyrics to the most famous song of the whole musical "The Pink Letter" from his sister and decides that Anna will sing it at the postal academy right in front of the Minister of Posts, where she will reap great success. Later, when the spoiled star Veldenová ends her role in the musical, the director of the theater Bernhard, with whom Anny is in love, has no choice but to announce an audition for the role.
Movie7.7ComedyA young woman leaves behind her job, home and family to try to make it in the movie business. Features cameos from about three dozen German film stars of the era.
Movie10.0ComedyProfessor Bock is to inaugurate the museum, the construction of which was donated by a generous patron who remains anonymous. He learns that it is his brother's wife, a former dancer, and whom he hates. But her daughter falls in love with Jim, the son of the ex-dancer, and everything will work out.