Felix Bressart

Felix Bressart

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Felix Bressart (March 2, 1892 – March 17, 1949) was a German-American actor of stage and screen. Felix Bressart (pronounced "BRESS-ert") was born in East Prussia, Germany (now part of Russia) and was already a very experienced stage actor when he had his film debut in 1928. He started off as a supporting actor, e.g. as the Bailiff in the box-office hit Die Drei von der Tankstelle (1930), but had soon established himself in leading roles of minor movies. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, Jewish-born Bressart had to leave Germany and continued his career in German-speaking movies in Austria, where Jewish artists were still relatively safe. After no fewer than 30 films in eight years, he emigrated to the United States. One of Bressart's former European colleagues was Joe Pasternak, now a successful Hollywood producer. Bressart's first American film was Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939), a vehicle for Universal Pictures' top attraction, Deanna Durbin. Pasternak also selected the reliable Bressart to perform in a screen test opposite Pasternak's newest discovery, Gloria Jean. The influential German community in Hollywood helped to establish Bressart in America, as his earliest American movies were directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Henry Koster, and Wilhelm Thiele (director of Die Drei von der Tankstelle). Bressart scored a great success in Lubitsch's Ninotchka, produced at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. MGM signed Bressart to a studio contract in 1939. Most of his MGM work consisted of featured roles in major films like Edison, the Man. He combined his mildly inflected East European accent with a soft-spoken delivery to create kindly, friendly characters, as in Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be, in which he sensitively recites Shylock's famous "Hath not a Jew eyes?" speech from The Merchant of Venice. Lubitsch also directed Bressart to similar effect in The Shop Around the Corner. Bressart soon became a popular character actor in films like Blossoms in the Dust (1941), The Seventh Cross (1944), and Without Love (1945). Perhaps his largest role was in RKO Radio Pictures' "B" musical comedy Ding Dong Williams, filmed in 1945. Bressart, billed third, played the bemused supervisor of a movie studio's music department, and appeared in formal wear to conduct Chopin's "Fantasie Impromptu." After almost 40 Hollywood pictures, Felix Bressart suddenly died of leukemia at the age of 57. His last film was My Friend Irma (1949), the movie version of a popular radio show. Bressart died during production, forcing the producers to finish the film with Hans Conried. In the final film, Conried speaks throughout, but Bressart is still seen in the long shots. Description above from the Wikipedia article Felix Bressart, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.    

  • Title: Felix Bressart
  • Popularity: 2.78
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1892-03-02
  • Place of Birth: Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, Germany [now Chernyshevskoe, Russia]
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  • Also Known As: Феликс Брессарт
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Felix Bressart Movies

  • 1942
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    To Be or Not to Be

    To Be or Not to Be

    7.8 1942 HD

    During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

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  • 1930
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    The Three from the Filling Station

    The Three from the Filling Station

    6.1 1930 HD

    Die Drei von der Tankstelle, meaning The Three from the Gas Station, was advertised as a German operetta when release and with it’s star...

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  • 1930
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    The fight with the dragon or: The tragedy of the lodger

    The fight with the dragon or: The tragedy of the lodger

    1 1930 HD

    A meek clerk can no longer abide the nastiness of his boarding house proprietress and takes drastic action.

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  • 1939
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    Ninotchka

    Ninotchka

    7.5 1939 HD

    A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

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  • 1940
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    The Shop Around the Corner

    The Shop Around the Corner

    8.164 1940 HD

    Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous...

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  • 1949
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    Take One False Step

    Take One False Step

    5.4 1949 HD

    Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that...

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  • 1940
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    Comrade X

    Comrade X

    5.8 1940 HD

    An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.

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  • 1943
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    Above Suspicion

    Above Suspicion

    6.4 1943 HD

    Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.

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    Crossroads

    Crossroads

    5.9 1942 HD

    A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.

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  • 1940
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    Edison, the Man

    Edison, the Man

    6.7 1940 HD

    In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New...

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  • 1940
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    It All Came True

    It All Came True

    5.6 1940 HD

    After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding...

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  • 1940
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    Third Finger, Left Hand

    Third Finger, Left Hand

    6.8 1940 HD

    Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when...

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  • 1941
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    Blossoms in the Dust

    Blossoms in the Dust

    6.5 1941 HD

    Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats...

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  • 1944
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    The Seventh Cross

    The Seventh Cross

    6.7 1944 HD

    In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee...

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  • 1940
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    Escape

    Escape

    7.4 1940 HD

    An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess...

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  • 1945
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    Dangerous Partners

    Dangerous Partners

    6.3 1945 HD

    A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.

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  • 1944
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    Blonde Fever

    Blonde Fever

    4.4 1944 HD

    Peter and Delilah are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership turns rocky, though, with the arrival of...

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  • 1939
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    Swanee River

    Swanee River

    1 1939 HD

    Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

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  • 1946
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    I've Always Loved You

    I've Always Loved You

    6.4 1946 HD

    A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.

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  • 1934
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    Peter

    Peter

    1 1934 HD

    Starring Francisca Gaál in a breeches role. Dressed as a boy, a street musician gets a job pumping gas. When s/he starts to have feelings for...

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  • 1933
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    Wie d'Warret würkt

    Wie d'Warret würkt

    1 1933 HD

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  • 1940
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    Bitter Sweet

    Bitter Sweet

    5.8 1940 HD

    A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.

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  • 1941
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    Married Bachelor

    Married Bachelor

    5.8 1941 HD

    A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an...

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  • 1939
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    Bridal Suite

    Bridal Suite

    5.1 1939 HD

    A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.

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  • 1931
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    No More Love

    No More Love

    7.5 1931 HD

    An American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them for five years. But after four and a half years...

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  • 1931
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    Terror of the Garrison

    Terror of the Garrison

    1 1931 HD

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  • 1932
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    The Lucky Top Hat

    The Lucky Top Hat

    1 1932 HD

    Gottfried Jonathan, a small civil servant, lives as a lodger and is roommates with the blonde Käthe. Although she tries very hard, she...

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  • 1931
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    The Office Manager

    The Office Manager

    1 1931 HD

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  • 1946
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    Ding Dong Williams

    Ding Dong Williams

    5 1946 HD

    Ding Dong Williams, a clarinet player who can neither read nor write music is employed at a motion picture studio. The studio plans to use him and...

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  • 1930
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    Eine Freundin so goldig wie Du

    Eine Freundin so goldig wie Du

    1 1930 HD

    The lively Anny meets the nice Dr. Jack Braun and throws everything in his life into disarray. As Jack is in the middle of divorce proceedings...

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  • 1930
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    Die zärtlichen Verwandten

    Die zärtlichen Verwandten

    1 1930 HD

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  • 1943
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    Three Hearts for Julia

    Three Hearts for Julia

    6 1943 HD

    When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again.

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  • 1931
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    Excursion into Life

    Excursion into Life

    5 1931 HD

    Felix Bressart, later one of the most delightful members of the Ernst Lubitsch "stock company," plays the title character in the Austrian comedy...

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  • 1941
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    Ziegfeld Girl

    Ziegfeld Girl

    6.5 1941 HD

    Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on...

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  • 1946
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    Her Sister's Secret

    Her Sister's Secret

    6.5 1946 HD

    A WWII tale of romance that begins during New Orlean's "Mardi Gras" celebration when a soldier and a girl meet and fall in love. He asks her to marry...

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  • 1930
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    There is a woman who will never forget you

    There is a woman who will never forget you

    1 1930 HD

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  • 1931
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    Fanfare about love

    Fanfare about love

    1 1931 HD

    Caught by Archduke Max in an embarrassing situation with Marie-Charlote, Captain Rudi is forced into marriage. Yet he approaches actress Josefine,...

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  • 1935
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    Everything for the Company

    Everything for the Company

    1 1935 HD

    Familial disputes surrounding a traditional business. Grandfather Sonndorfer allies himself with his grandson Otto, in order to bring his arrogant...

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  • 1941
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    Kathleen

    Kathleen

    5 1941 HD

    Kathleen is a twelve-year-old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She...

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  • 1939
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    Three Smart Girls Grow Up

    Three Smart Girls Grow Up

    7.3 1939 HD

    Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's...

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  • 1930
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    Three days of middle arrest

    Three days of middle arrest

    5 1930 HD

    When an attractive maid in a garrison town becomes pregnant, she reveals that one of three soldiers stationed there who had been chasing after her,...

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  • 1936
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    Heut' ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben

    Heut' ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben

    1 1936 HD

    Two twin brothers working in a Vienna fair and who are both gifted for singing meet different luck both in love and their careers.

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  • 1928
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    Liebe im Kuhstall

    Liebe im Kuhstall

    1 1928 HD

    An impoverished nobleman would rather chase after the local milkmaid than seek a wealthy match, to the chagrin of his family.

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  • 1931
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    True Jacob

    True Jacob

    5 1931 HD

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  • 1931
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    Private Secretary

    Private Secretary

    1 1931 HD

    During hard times, a vivacious girl looks for an office job in the hope of landing a rich man. The director of the bank she works at flirts with her...

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  • 1944
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    Greenwich Village

    Greenwich Village

    6 1944 HD

    In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.

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  • 1944
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    Song of Russia

    Song of Russia

    8 1944 HD

    American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in...

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  • 1943
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    Don't Be a Sucker!

    Don't Be a Sucker!

    6.5 1943 HD

    Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made...

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  • 1946
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    The Thrill of Brazil

    The Thrill of Brazil

    6 1946 HD

    Steve, revue producer in Rio de Janeiro, is still in love with his ex-wife Vicki, his star Linda is in love with Steve and Tito is in love with...

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  • 1933
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    ...und wer küßt mich?

    ...und wer küßt mich?

    5.8 1933 HD

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  • 1945
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    Without Love

    Without Love

    6.8 1945 HD

    In World War II Washington DC, scientist Pat Jamieson's assistant, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with him. Struggles bring them closer...

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  • 1942
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    Iceland

    Iceland

    5.7 1942 HD

    Marine James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic family take his actions as a proposal of marriage to...

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  • 1934
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    Salto in die Seligkeit

    Salto in die Seligkeit

    1 1934 HD

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  • 1948
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    A Song Is Born

    A Song Is Born

    6.5 1948 HD

    The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome...

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  • 1930
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    Old Song

    Old Song

    1 1930 HD

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  • 1948
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    Portrait of Jennie

    Portrait of Jennie

    7 1948 HD

    A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.

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  • 1934
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    C'était un musicien

    C'était un musicien

    1 1934 HD

    When he is not conducting his orchestra, a talented young man invents a device to thwart car thieves.Associating himself with a rich Dutch baron, he...

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  • 1932
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    Holzapfel Knows Everything

    Holzapfel Knows Everything

    1 1932 HD

    An unemployed man who plays a concertina gets involved with a band of crooks and tries to frustrate a kidnapping, in this farcical caper.

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  • 1932
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    Visul lui Tanase

    Visul lui Tanase

    6 1932 HD

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  • 1935
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    Four and a Half Musketeers

    Four and a Half Musketeers

    1 1935 HD

    A Hungarian-Austrian comedy and one of the last emigrant films made in Austria before the industry submitted to pressure from Nazi Germany and ceased...

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  • 1935
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    Ball at the Savoy

    Ball at the Savoy

    7 1935 HD

    Musical comedy set in a Grand Hotel.

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  • 1942
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    Mr. and Mrs. North

    Mr. and Mrs. North

    4.5 1942 HD

    Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.

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