Käthe Dorsch Movies
- 1950
This German melodrama is set in the Paris of some hundred years ago. It is a tale of two brothers: Robert (Paul Dahlke), a gentleman thief, and Pierre (Richard Haueseler), a less gentlemanly prefect of police. It is understood that neither brother will intrude upon the province of the other. But rules are made to be broken, especially when women are involved. Kaethe Dorsch delivers the film's best performance as Robert and Pierre's mother. There are subplots aplenty during the film's 100-minute running time, but things never get too confusing, not even in the English-dubbed version. Der Bagnostraefling was written and directed by Gustav Froelich, a well-known German actor whose previous credits included Fritz Lang's Metropolis, ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Dahlke, Richard Haeussler, (more)
- 1941
Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. When Philine (Hilde Krahl), the troupe's ingénue, is rejected as proper marital material by the Duchess of Weissenfels (Porten), Karoline Neuber (Dorsch) creates such a furor that she is banished from the country. A performance at the court at St. Petersburg also ends in disaster for the unhappy actress and abandoned by all, Karoline dies a suicide. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
- 1938
Yvette was adapted from the oft-filmed Guy de Maupassant story of the same name. The title character, played by Ruth Hellberg, is a convent-educated girl who is unaware that her mother Oktavia (Kaethe Dorsch) is a prostitute. Upon learning the truth, poor Yvette tries to kill herself. Touched by her plight, worldly Aristine de Saval (Johannes Riemann) who has always believed that all women are whores, falls deeply in love with the virginal Yvette. Reviewers in 1938 were pleasantly surprised that De Maupassant's tender fable was so well realized by director Wolfgang Liberneiner, hardly a master of subtlety. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Käthe Dorsch, Ruth Hellberg, (more)
- 1938
Hans H. Zerlett was pretty near the whole show in the German Es Leuchten die Sterne (The Stars are Shining): producer, director, screenwriter. Zerlett, however, was not the star, that honor went to German musical-comedy star La Jana. What story there is concerns a pretty movie extra who is mistaken for a famous dancer, requiring her to head the cast of a star-studded musical revue. Among the guest performers in this glorified vaudeville show are tap-dance king Paal Roschberg and former heavyweight boxing champ Max Schmeling. Incidentally, the "Paul Verhoven" providing comedy relief is not the same-named contemporary director. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1936
This German language film is a murder mystery set in the Savoy Hotel in Moscow ~ All Movie Guide
- 1936
Eine Frau Ohne Bedeutung was adapted by Thea von Harbou from the 1893 Oscar Wilde comedy A Woman of No Importance. Though updated to the 1930s, the story, concerning a reconciliation between an estranged father and son as orchestrated by an "unimportant" woman, remains the same. Perhaps Wilde had not intended his third act to be quite so melodramatic, but it must be remembered that von Harbou previously worked on such films as Dr. Mabuse and Metropolis. Without a thorough knowledge of German, one is hard-pressed to determine whether or not Wilde's epigrammatic dialogue survived intact. Still, audiences in 1936 were satisfied, as were the producers when Eine Frau Ohne Bedeutung turned out to be a success. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hans Leibelt, Käthe Dorsch, (more)
- 1931
Its title translates as The Inn on the Rhine, so there's no mystery as to where this German operetta takes place. Pretty young Tilly (Marie Elsner) is saddled with status-conscious parents who want their daughter to marry distinguished college lecturer Dr. Hans Trieborn (Hans-Heinz Bauman). But the good doctor is in love with lady innkeeper Annemarie Babbinger (Kaethe Dorsch), while Tilly is in love with Annemarie's son Heinz (Fritz Schultz). And the result? Instead of becoming Tilly's husband, Dr. Trieborn ends up as her father-in-law. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Käthe Dorsch, Fritz Schulz, (more)
- 1931
Drei Tage Liebe (Three Days' Love) was based on a novel by Joe Lederer. Kaethe Dorsch plays a servant girl who falls for a handsome moving man, portrayed by Hans Albers. After three days of Heaven, hero and heroine are forced to come back down to earth. Albers tries to be blasé about their possible parting, but Dorsch cries, and cries, and cries. Reviewers in 1931 felt that Drei Tage Liebe substituted bathos for pathos, but singled out the dependable Hans Albers as delivering the best performance. The film is chock-full of 1930s Berlin slang, which might prove interesting to contemporary dialecticians. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hans Albers, Käthe Dorsch, (more)
