Frederick Kohner

Nacimiento : 1905-09-25, Teplitz-Schönau, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Teplice, Czech Republic]

Muerte : 1986-07-07

Historia

Frederick Kohner was born on September 25, 1905 in Teplitz-Schönau, Austria-Hungary [now Teplice, Czech Republic]. He was a writer and actor, known for Gidget (1965), Mad About Music (1938) and The Lady and the Monster (1944). He was previously married to Fritzi Klein. He died on July 7, 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Películas

Gidget Gets Married
Novel
Gidget finally gets married and rebels against the social caste system in her new husband's company.
Gidget Grows Up
Novel
After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "Moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.
Gidget Goes to Rome
Characters
Frances, de 17 años, todavía está enamorada de Moondoggy. Intenta convencer a sus padres de que la dejen viajar a Roma, con sus amigos. Sin embargo, han de ir con un adulto, así que optan por la excéntrica tía de Peter. En Roma, Gidget se pone celosa por que su chico está fascinado por Daniela, su guía...
Gidget Goes Hawaiian
Writer
Francis is desperate: her parents want to force her to come with them on vacation to Hawaii - just during the two weeks when her beloved "Moondoggy" is home from College. When he suggests her to go for it, she's even more in panic - doesn't he care to be with her? So she sets out for Hawaii in the worst mood. On the plane she meets the sociable Abby, who gives her the advice to forget about Jeff - and regrets it shortly after, when Francis follows the advice and steals her boyfriend Eddie, a famous dancer. But then Jeff discovers he's missing Francis...
Gidget
Novel
Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggie. She's fascinated with his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make fun of her at first, they teach her to surf and soon she's accepted and given the nickname "Gidget". But it's hard work to become more than a friend to Moondoggie.
Toy Tiger
Story
Advertising executive Gwen Taylor sends her art director Rick Todd on a mission to bring an artist back to the commercial fold. Meanwhile, Gwen's fatherless son Timmie, at a remote boys' school, is riding for a fall by manufacturing evidence of his "explorer father." By an amazing coincidence, Rick steps off the bus at just the right moment for Timmie to recruit him as "father" without his knowledge. With no intention of collaborating, the befuddled Rick is carried along by the sweep of events. Who can predict the outcome?
Adventure in Rio
Writer
A remake of the 1940 film of the same title. It was shot on location in Brazil with separate German and Italian versions.
Utopia
Writer
Stan and Ollie are marooned on an atoll. This was their last film together.
Pictura
Writer
Pictura is a documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hollywood actors. The film attempts to give the general filmgoing public a taste of art history and art appreciation.
Hollywood Story
Screenplay
A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot in his office years ago. He finds that his life is threatened as he digs deeper into the mystery.
Nancy Goes to Rio
Story
Mother and daughter compete over same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man.
Bride for Sale
Story
Nora Shelley is a tax expert for the accounting company which is led by Paul Martin. She thinks she can find a suitable husband by inspecting their clients' tax documents. Martin finds out and tries to dissuade her from this approach, later enlisting the help of his friend Steve Adams, who tries to woo Shelley.
Three Daring Daughters
Screenplay
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
Patrick the Great
Story
Un joven con talento se presenta a una audición y consigue el papel, pero después se entera de que estaba destinado a su padre, y alberga sus dudas.
Pan-Americana
Story
A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.
La mujer y el monstruo
Screenplay
Un financiero sin escrúpulos muere en un accidente. Siguiendo sus órdenes, un científico y su ayudante mantienen con vida su cerebro artificialmente. Gradualmente, el cerebro empieza a dominar a sus guardianes.
Tahiti Honey
Screenplay
The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe ('Dennis O'Keefe (I)' ), are stranded in Tahiti at the time of the fall of France to the Nazis. Suzette "Suzie" Durand (Simone Simon). a French-American girl singing in a nightclub is consumed with a desire to go to the United States. Things go from bad to worse for the band,. and they are faced with the necessity of either taking a girl singer into the group,which they all regard as bad luck, or starving. The band insists that she be dropped as soon as they can earn enough to catch a bot home. But Mickey falls in love with Suzie, and smuggles her on board the ship.
Tahiti Honey
Story
The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe ('Dennis O'Keefe (I)' ), are stranded in Tahiti at the time of the fall of France to the Nazis. Suzette "Suzie" Durand (Simone Simon). a French-American girl singing in a nightclub is consumed with a desire to go to the United States. Things go from bad to worse for the band,. and they are faced with the necessity of either taking a girl singer into the group,which they all regard as bad luck, or starving. The band insists that she be dropped as soon as they can earn enough to catch a bot home. But Mickey falls in love with Suzie, and smuggles her on board the ship.
Johnny Doughboy
Story
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
The Men in Her Life
Screenplay
A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her first husband, her mentor and instructor, primarily out of gratitude. After his death, she marries an American thinking that can be her escape from the world of ballet. But she leaves him to return the dancing. She has a child but does not tell her husband. When her daughter is two-years-old, the husband finds out and takes the child to America. The ballerina continues to dance until her best dancing days have gone by.
It's a Date
Story
Una aspirante a actriz, que pretende participar en una película importante, descubre que su madre también esta tratando de conseguir el papel. Por si esto fuera poco, las dos se enamoran del mismo hombre.
Mentirosilla
Story
Gloria Parkinson (Deanne Durbin) es la hija adolescente de Gwen Taylor (Gail Patrick) una reconocida actriz que ha enviado a Gloria a un internado en Suiza para apartarla de los ojos del público. En parte es por su bien pero, por otro lado, es porque Gwen prefiere que la gente no sepa que tiene los años suficientes para tener una hija de esa edad. Gloria se divierte consigo misma y se gana la admiración de sus compañeros cuando empieza a contar sus extraordinarias historietas acerca de la vuelta al mundo de su millonario padre. Sin embargo, la realidad es otra. Su madre es divorciada y Gloria no tiene padre reconocido hasta el momento. Después de algún tiempo, sus amigos se vuelven escépticos y le reclaman evidencias de la existencia de su padre...
Sins of Man
Writer
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
The Slump Is Over
Writer
A provincial tour fails without money in an abandoned theater in the capital and puts on a review under the sign of optimism.
The Burning Secret
Novel
One autumn, Edgar, a 12 year old boy, spends a holiday with his mother at a plush hotel in Switzerland. His father, a busy lawyer, remains at the family home in Vienna. When he sees a stylish motorcar pull up at the hotel, Edgar wastes no time befriending its owner, an amiable dandy. The latter pays more attention to the boy’s mother than to the boy himself, and decides to use Edgar to wheedle his way into her affections. When Edgar realises he has been used, he is far from happy...
A Song, A Kiss, A Girl
Writer
Peter Franke owns Supraphon record company, which has one main competitor in Lyraphon. As a commercial strategy Peter gets engaged to her counter partner Asta, to his assistant Münzer's approval. Then he meets Wally Sommer, singing saleswoman at one of his shops, and all his plans are turned upside down while they both fall in love in this light musical comedy filled with Robert Stolz music.
Sin novedad en el frente
Minor Role (uncredited)
Mítica película antibélica que plasma los sentimientos, sensaciones y desilusiones de un grupo de jóvenes estudiantes que son enviados al frente en la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Es una adaptación de la novela homónima del escritor alemán Erich María Remarque. Su estreno provocó enfrentamientos entre nazis y comunistas.