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Paul Ludwig Stein
1892 - 1951 |
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. The director Paul Ludwig Stein began his career as a stage actor in Berlin where he appeared at the "Reinhardt-Bühnen" among others. He also wrote few plays. He entered the film business as an actor in 1915 and his first movie was "Zucker und Zimt" (15). It followed only few more engagements as an actor in front of the camera for "Das kommt davon" (19) and "In Sachen Herder contra Brandt" (39). Instead he became a demanded movie director from 1918. He realised many silent movies in the next years like "Der gelbe Schein" (18), "Seine Durchlaucht der Landstreicher" (19), "Der Tempel der Liebe" (19), "Das Rätsel im Menschen" (20), "Das Opfer der Ellen Larsen" (21), "Arme Violetta" (21), "Es leuchtet meine Liebe" (22), "Der Löwe von Venedig" (24) and "Fünf-Uhr-Tee in der Ackerstrasse" (26). Finally he left Germany and he went to the USA and later to England where he was able to continue his film career as a director. To his movies of those years belong "My Official Wife" (26), "The Climbers" (27), "The Forbidden Woman" (27), "Her Private Affair" (29), "One Romantic Night" (30), "The Lottery Bride" (30), "The Common Law" (31), "Blossom Time" (33), "Heart's Disire" (36), "The Outsider" (39), "It Happened to One Man" (40), "Twilight Hour" (45), "Lisbon Story" (46) and "Counterblast" (48). His last cinematical work came one year before his death into being with "The 20 Questions Murder Mystery" (50).
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