Curtis Bernhardt
Nacimiento : 1899-04-15, Worms, Germany
Muerte : 1981-02-22
Historia
Curtis Bernhardt (Kurt Bernhardt) (15 April 1899 – 22 February 1981) was a German film director born in Worms, Germany. Some of his American films were called "woman's films" including the Joan Crawford film Possessed (1947). Bernhardt trained as an actor in Germany, and performed on the stage, before starting as a film director in 1926. Other films include A Stolen Life (1946) starring Bette Davis and Sirocco (1951) starringHumphrey Bogart. Bernhardt directed films in France and England before moving on to Hollywood to work for Warner Brothers in 1940. Bernhardt produced and directed his last Hollywood picture Kisses for My President (1964) about the nation's first female Chief Executive starring Polly Bergen and Fred MacMurray.
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La elección de Leslie McCloud como Presidenta de los Estados Unidos supone importantes cambios, especialmente para su marido, que debe asumir las funciones de "primera dama".
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La elección de Leslie McCloud como Presidenta de los Estados Unidos supone importantes cambios, especialmente para su marido, que debe asumir las funciones de "primera dama".
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Damon is a thief who begins to question his beliefs after he meets Pythias, a liberal Athenian who believes all men are brothers.
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A ballerina resorts to prostitution when her fiance is reported killed in World War II.
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Biografía de Marjorie Lawrence, cantante de ópera de origen australiano, desde que abandonó la granja de sus padres para estudiar canto y triunfó en los escenarios de todo el mundo hasta que su carrera se vio truncada por la poliomielitis. A pesar de ello, su tenacidad le permitió superar la enfermedad e incluso volver a los escenarios.
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Durante el XIX, en Inglaterra el elegante "dandy" Beau Brummell se convierte en el hombre de confianza del Príncipe de Gales. Cuando se descubre una conspiración contra Jorge III, tendrá que abandonar su placentera vida y actuar en consecuencia.
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Sadie Thompson, una artista de un club nocturno, tiene que desembarcar en Samoa, una isla del Pacífico, porque el barco en que viaja ha sido puesto en cuarentena. El único hotel donde puede alojarse comienza a ser frecuentado por los oficiales de marina destacados en la isla. Entre ellos está el sargento Phil O’Hara, que queda prendado de Sadie. Alfred Davidson, hombre de moral inflexible, desaprueba el comportamiento de la artista y tratará de dificultar su estancia en la medida de lo posible. (FILMAFFINITY)
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El reino de Marshovia está asfixiado por las deudas. La única solución sería que una viuda millonaria destinara su fortuna a sacar al estado de una situación tan apurada. Con tal propósito, el rey le pide a un conde que vaya a verla y la corteje.
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A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
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Damasco, 1925. Harry Smith (Bogart), un despiadado contrabandista de armas, necesita un salvoconducto para salir de Damasco y no tiene más remedio que recurrir a su máximo rival, el coronel francés Feroud (Lee J. Cobb), que lo chantajea exigiéndole a cambio una importante información militar...
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Ha pasado mucho tiempo desde que David Ramsey era un abogado sin clientes. En la actualidad, gracias a la habilidad y a la ambición de su mujer, Joyce, disfruta de una sólida reputación y una envidiable posición económica. Sin embargo, el matrimonio de David y Joyce ha tocado fondo.
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Ha pasado mucho tiempo desde que David Ramsey era un abogado sin clientes. En la actualidad, gracias a la habilidad y a la ambición de su mujer, Joyce, disfruta de una sólida reputación y una envidiable posición económica. Sin embargo, el matrimonio de David y Joyce ha tocado fondo.
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Un joven doctor, casado con una chica proletaria, ejerce la medicina en un suburbio de Nueva York.
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Steve Kenet, un veterano piloto de guerra, es ingresado en un psiquiátrico después de haber confesado el asesinato de su esposa. La doctora Ann Lorrison es la encargada de esclarecer el oscuro caso.
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Después de ser rechazada por el ingeniero David Sutton, la enfermera Louise Howell se casa por despecho con el magnate Dean Graham, cuya mujer se ha suicidado. Louise empieza a sufrir alucinaciones y no puede soportar que su hijastra, la joven Carol Graham, se enamore de su amado David.
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Mientras pasan el verano en casa de su primo, las hermanas gemelas Kate (Bette Davis) y Patricia (Bette Davis) se enamoran de Bill Emerson (Glenn Ford). Bill se enamora de Patricia y se casa con ella, pero Kate no puede olvidar a Bill.
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En la Inglaterra victoriana, las hermanas Emily y Charlotte Brontë, ambas escritoras, compiten por el amor del reverendo Arthur Nichols. Tanto ellas como su hermana Anne tratan de ayudar a su atormentado hermano Branwell, un artista con talento, cuya afición al alcohol está destruyendo su vida.
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En Lake Forrest (Illinois) la gente no deja de murmurar: dicen que la joven viuda Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) anda en amoríos – demasiado pronto – con un apuesto oficial del ejército (George Brent). Las habladurías han llegado hasta Jessica y, por desgracia, también hasta sus dos hijos, pequeños e impresionables.
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Richard Mason (Humphrey Bogart) trama el crimen perfecto: el asesinato de su esposa para poder desposar luego a la hermana de ésta.
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A gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and voodoo.
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During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers and pickers struggle under the buyer who rules by monopoly, dirty contracts and violence. Steve helps organize against the buyer, leading to further escalation ending in a lynch mob.
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A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
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In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a handsome, much-loved piano virtuoso, falls in love with Anne Morris, a young woman who shares his tender feelings. But, quite inexplicably, after an unforgettable night, Anne vanishes without trace. Twenty years later, Pierre, at the peak of his glory, has become embittered. Unable to recover his unhappy love affair, he has collected women without ever committing himself to any. Until some night he meets the eyes of a beautiful young lady, who happens to be the spitting image of his great love...
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An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
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Comedia donde una estudiante de violín con problemas económicos para seguir su aprendizaje recibe una sorpresa cuando un donante anónimo le consigue un contrato para grabar un disco.
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A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper, actually called Jean Pelletier, a mobster well known to police. Vetheuil, judging himself slandered, refuses to listen to his tormentor and goes to the police. The man speaks. The scandal is public soon ...
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A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper, actually called Jean Pelletier, a mobster well known to police. Vetheuil, judging himself slandered, refuses to listen to his tormentor and goes to the police. The man speaks. The scandal is public soon ...
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In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad, begins dating a seductive widow--the same widow his father has been seeing. Trouble ensues when the father refuses to let his daughter marry her true love. When the fiancée learns of the father-son shenanigans, he begins blackmailing them into letting him marry the daughter.
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Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!
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Gaston, an artist in love with an upper class English girl, accepts to stay away from her when a wealthy rival offers to pay her father's heavy debt. Broken-hearted, he leaves for France with his young servant. They join a young girl as popular musicians and tour the countryside in their way to Paris, where his former love reappears.
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Gaston, an artist in love with an upper class English girl, accepts to stay away from her when a wealthy rival offers to pay her father's heavy debt. Broken-hearted, he leaves for France with his young servant. They join a young girl as popular musicians and tour the countryside in their way to Paris, where his former love reappears.
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The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.
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A young man is involved in a swindle to produce synthetic gold, but fortunately when the fakery is uncovered he still has his girlfriend and a ticket to America.
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Un ingeniero es contratado para diseñar y supervisar la construcción de un túnel submarino entre Europa y los Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, los intereses de algunos, que no quieren ver el túnel construido, utilizan todos los medios a su alcance, incluyendo el sabotaje y el asesinato para detener su construcción.
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Un ingeniero es contratado para diseñar y supervisar la construcción de un túnel submarino entre Europa y los Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, los intereses de algunos, que no quieren ver el túnel construido, utilizan todos los medios a su alcance, incluyendo el sabotaje y el asesinato para detener su construcción.
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The engineer MacAllan designs a tunnel, which will join America and Europe together on the seabed. A group of American billionaires are financing the gigantic project, but the construction of the tunnel is proving to be as tedious as it is dangerous. MacAllan's worst enemy is the speculator Woolf, who had embezzled the money for the construction and who is attempting to cover up his crime by carrying out acts of sabotage. Also filmed in 1933 in a French-language version, LE TUNNEL, and remade in 1935 in England as TRANSATLATIC TUNNEL.
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The engineer MacAllan designs a tunnel, which will join America and Europe together on the seabed. A group of American billionaires are financing the gigantic project, but the construction of the tunnel is proving to be as tedious as it is dangerous. MacAllan's worst enemy is the speculator Woolf, who had embezzled the money for the construction and who is attempting to cover up his crime by carrying out acts of sabotage. Also filmed in 1933 in a French-language version, LE TUNNEL, and remade in 1935 in England as TRANSATLATIC TUNNEL.
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A young medical student returns to his Tyrolean home to find out that Napoleon's troops have taken over the area and that his mother and sister have been murdered.
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El marqués de Sévigné se encuentra en una situación difícil cuando se enamora de la encantadora Lady Falkland, una mujer casada cuyo marido, el estricto Lord Falkland, la somete a constantes abusos.
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The new French military attaché at the Constantinople embassy helps a young woman being blackmailed by her own husband.
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Una banda de soldados prusianos que luchan contra Napoleón se guardan ellos mismos en un molino de viento rural, la hija del molinero insiste en quedarse con ellos.
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After a chance meeting at a train station, Henry and Stascha, unhappy with their circumstances, are determined to leave and be together.
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Children's Souls Accuse You is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Albert Steinrück, Nathalie Lissenko and Walter Rilla. It was made with an anti-abortion theme.
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A film based on novel Jane Eyre.
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A family suffers greatly during the First World War.
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A family suffers greatly during the First World War.
