Albert Conti
Oyuncu · 1887 – 1967 · Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Albert De Conti Cadassamare (29 January 1887 – 18 January 1967), professionally billed as Albert Conti, was an Austrian-Hungarian-born Italian-American film actor. Born in the village Gorizia (now part of Italy), Conti achieved moderate fame as an actor in American films, but first he specialized in law (high school and law college in Graz) and natural science, and married Patricia Cross. When World War I began, he became an officer. His father was Albert, Ritter Conti v. Cedassamare and his mother was Marie Bernhardine Anna (Countess Caboga) a member of an old Ragusan/Dubrovnik noble family. After his discharge from the Austrian army at the close of World War I, he came to America like many other now-impoverished postwar Europeans from both sides of the conflict. Conti emigrated to the United States via the Port of Philadelphia in 1919. After settling in the new country, Conti was obliged to take a series of manual labor jobs, his patrician background notwithstanding. While working in the California oil fields, he answered an open call placed by director Erich von Stroheim, who was in search of an Austrian military officer to act as technical advisor for his upcoming film Merry-Go-Round (1923). A better actor than most of his fellow Habsburg Empire expatriates, Conti was able to secure dignified character roles in several silent and sound films; his credits ranged from Josef von Sternberg's Morocco (1930) to the early Laurel and Hardy knockabout Slipping Wives (1927). He appeared in the 1928 silent film Dry Martini as a roué artist. Though he made his last film in 1942, Albert Conti remained in the industry as an employee of the MGM wardrobe department, where he worked until his retirement in 1962.
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Film7.8DramKorkuFreaks, Tod Browning’in kendi geçmiş deneyimlerinden yola çıkarak çektiği kült bir filmdir. Dönemin sirklerindeki gösterilerin parçası olan kolsuz ve bacaksız insanlar, siyam ikizleri, cüceler, iskelet insanlar, sakallı kadınlar, çift cinsiyetli insanlar gibi gerçek fiziksel deformasyonlarıyla hilkat garibelerini seyircinin önüne çıkarması Browning’in ağır eleştirilere maruz kalmasına hatta sinema kariyerinin sonlanmasına sebep olmuştur * Filmin hikayesi, hilkat garibeleriyle dolu bir sirkte geçer. Sirk artistleri arasında bulunan güzel trapez sanatçısı, cüce Hans’ın evlilik teklifini kabul eder. Fakat hilkat garibeleri, bu evliliğin Hans’ın parası için olduğunu öğrenirler. Onlarla dalga geçen trapezcinin, sevgilisi ile birlikte Hans’ı öldürme planları yaptığı ortaya çıktığındaysa, birbirlerine sıkı sıkıya bağlı olan hilkat garibeleri bu kadın ve sevgilisi için korkunç bir intikam planı hazırlarlar
Film6.4DramRomantikMogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disillusioned Parisian cabaret singer.
Morocco
1930 · 171 votes
Film6.7KorkuGerilimOtobüsle seyahate giden genç bir çift olan Peter ve Joan, yeni bir yol arkadaşı edinirler: Macar hekim Will Guest. Ancak hava şartları çok kötüdür ve çıkan bir fırtına yüzünden meydana gelen otobüs kazası, şoförün canına mal olur. Bu tatsız olaydan sonra Will Guest, genç çifte kalacakları bir yer sağlamak istediği söyler. Arkadaşı olarak tanıştırdığı Hjalmar Poelzig. Hjalmar, bir mimardır ve temelleri I. Dünya Savaşı sonunda yıkılan bir şatonun üzerine kurulu büyük bir malikanede oturmaktadır. Ancak aslında Will ve Hjalmar, arkadaş değillerdir. Çiftin kalmak için gittiği bu tuhaf malikanede de tuhaf olaylar olmaktadır. Evin bodrumunda tutsak tutulan bir kız vardır ve bu kız korkunç bir suçun tanığıdır. Hjalmar'ın yeni bir planı vardır ve bu plan Joan ile ilgilidir.
Film7.1KomediRomantikHollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
Show People
1928 · 57 votes
Film8.0DramFay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
Mills of the Gods
1934 · 1 votes
Film6.4DramBar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her memory was destroyed during World War I. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian Army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case from Trieste that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth.
As You Desire Me
1932 · 14 votes
Film7.1GizemA police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.
The Night Club Lady
1932 · 5 votes
Film6.2KomediDramA wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
Lady with a Past
1932 · 10 votes
Film4.2DramRomantikA murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
The Secret of Madame Blanche
1933 · 6 votes
Film6.7DramRomantikA waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
Shopworn
1932 · 14 votes
Film6.4MaceraRomantikVladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha.
The Eagle
1925 · 59 votes
Film6.0RomantikDramYoung Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
The Night Is Young
1935 · 4 votes
Film6.6KomediRomantikLil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.
Red-Headed Woman
1932 · 58 votes
Film6.6KomediMüzikWhen the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
Fashions of 1934
1934 · 25 votes
Film5.6KomediA trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932 · 13 votes
Film5.8KomediRomantikInnocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
Careless Lady
1932 · 5 votes
Film6.3MüzikRomantikTheater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
I'll Take Romance
1937 · 3 votes
Film5.9RomantikMüzikA socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.
Madam Satan
1930 · 28 votes
Film7.0KomediMüzikKathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
Here's to Romance
1935 · 1 votes
Film5.3KomediDramTwo reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
Everything Happens at Night
1939 · 5 votes
Film6.2MüzikRomantikDisenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her career to marry him. But Barney grows disenchanted himself at being known as the husband of a diva and itches to get back to his life of crime and manliness.
Oh, for a Man!
1930 · 4 votes
Film4.0MaceraDramGervas Carew's wife, Elinor, has deserted him while he was fighting for France, for Lord Clyde Geraldine, a cad of the first order, but Elinor, in turn is cast off when Lord Geraldine turns his attention to an Irish lass, Marny. Marny has no idea of Geraldine's past nor his brutal nature.
Old Loves and New
1926 · 4 votes
Film7.0DramAn immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is having an affair with a local lowlife; when he turns up dead, the husband is jailed for his murder, even though he protests his innocence.
Men Are Such Fools
1932 · 1 votes
Film6.7DramRomantikPrince Danilo falls in love with dancer Sally O'Hara. However, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco, forbids the marriage due to her being a commoner. Thinking she's been jilted by her prince, Sally marries lecherous old Baron Sadoja, whose wealth has kept the kingdom afloat. When he suddenly dies, Sally must be wooed all over again by Danilo.
The Merry Widow
1925 · 44 votes