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Elsa Janssen is a Actor Allemande born on 4 october 1883 at Düsseldorf (German)
Elsa Janssen (parfois créditée Else Janssen) est une actrice allemande, née le 5 octobre 1883 à Düsseldorf (Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie ; alors Empire allemand), morte le 5 février 1969 à Los Angeles (Californie).
Entretemps, elle est notamment la mère de Lou Gehrig (personnifié par Gary Cooper) dans Vainqueur du destin de Sam Wood (1942). Mentionnons également La Sœur de son valet de Frank Borzage (1943, avec Deanna Durbin et Franchot Tone) et Dillinger, l'ennemi public n° 1 de Max Nosseck (1945, avec Lawrence Tierney dans le rôle-titre).
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Installée aux États-Unis, Elsa Janssen contribue comme second rôle de caractère (parfois non créditée) à vingt-cinq films américains, le premier sorti 1931. Le dernier est Passion immortelle de Clarence Brown, sorti en 1947, avec Katharine Hepburn et Paul Henreid interprétant le couple Clara et Robert Schumann.Entretemps, elle est notamment la mère de Lou Gehrig (personnifié par Gary Cooper) dans Vainqueur du destin de Sam Wood (1942). Mentionnons également La Sœur de son valet de Frank Borzage (1943, avec Deanna Durbin et Franchot Tone) et Dillinger, l'ennemi public n° 1 de Max Nosseck (1945, avec Lawrence Tierney dans le rôle-titre).
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Song of Love (1947)
, 1h59Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Piano
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Robert Walker, Henry Daniell, Leo G. Carroll, Elsa Janssen
Roles Bertha
Rating66%
Fictionalized romance in the 19th century of musicians Clara Wieck Schumann (Katharine Hepburn), Robert Schumann (Paul Henreid) and Johannes Brahms (Robert Walker). Clara gives up her thriving career as a concert pianist to devote herself to her struggling composer husband Robert. Unable to cope with disappointment and failure, Robert dies in an asylum, leaving poor Clara to cope with seven children and mounting debts.
Claudia and David (1946)
, 1h18Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Mary Astor, John Sutton, Gail Patrick, Florence Bates
Roles Bertha
Rating61%
Claudia (Dorothy McGuire), still charmingly naive and a bit nervous, is struggling with the responsibilities of marriage and parenthood in their rural Connecticut town. Jealousy creeps into the relationship when Elizabeth (Mary Astor) starts consulting David on a building project, while Claudia is attracting the uninvited attentions of Phil (John Sutton), who happens to be married.
Dillinger (1945)
, 1h10Directed by Max Nosseck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys, Elisha Cook, Jr., Eduardo Ciannelli, Marc Lawrence
Roles Mrs. Otto
Rating64%
The story begins with a newsreel summing up the gangster life of John Dillinger in detail. At the end of the newsreel, Dillinger's father (Victor Kilian) walks onto the stage and speaks to the movie audience about his son's childhood back in Indiana. He talks of John’s childhood as having been ordinary and not very eventful, but concedes that his son had ambitions and wanted to go his own way. The young Dillinger left his childhood town to find his fortune in Indianapolis, but soon ran out of money. The scene fades to a restaurant, where he is on a date and finds himself humiliated by the waiter who refuses to accept a check for the meal; unable to pay for the meal, he excuses himself, runs into a nearby grocery store and robs it for $7.20 in cash. He makes the clerk at the store believe he has a gun in his hand under the jacket.
The Dolly Sisters (1945)
, 1h54Directed by Irving Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Betty Grable, June Haver, John Payne, S.Z. Sakall, Reginald Gardiner, Frank Latimore
Roles Kathi
Rating61%
In 1904, Uncle Latsie (S. Z. Sakall) comes to New York from Hungary with two little nieces, who immediately take to cafe dancing. In 1912, they're still at it, but to pay Uncle's card debts they decide to go into vaudeville. Singer Harry Fox (John Payne), whom they meet en route, schemes to get them an audition with the great Hammerstein, but their resulting success takes them far out of Harry's league. Lots of songs with a little story.
3 Is a Family (1944)
, 1h21Directed by Edward Ludwig, John E. Burch
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Marjorie Reynolds, Charles Ruggles, Fay Bainter, Helen Broderick, Arthur Lake, Hattie McDaniel
Roles Adelaide
Rating52%
So Proudly We Hail (1943)
, 2h6Directed by Mark Sandrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, Cora Witherspoon, George Reeves, Barbara Britton
Roles Mrs. Larson (Uncredited)
Rating73%
The story covers many day-to-day events and contrasts the brutality of war against the sometimes futile efforts of the nurses to provide medical aid and comfort. Each of the nurses has a past or present love story with a soldier, with the longest-term one between the characters played by Colbert and George Reeves. Flashback narration and a sequence where the nurses and injured soldiers are stranded in Malinta Tunnel pinned down by aircraft fire are two notable aspects of the film.
His Butler's Sister (1943)
, 1h27Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Franchot Tone, Deanna Durbin, Pat O'Brien, Akim Tamiroff, Walter Catlett, Florence Bates
Roles Severina
Rating69%
Après ses études, Ann Carter part retrouver son frère et s'aperçoit qu'il est maître d'hôtel chez un compositeur de renom. Pour tenter de faire entendre sa voix au maître de céans, elle se fait passer pour la femme de chambre. Mais ses efforts n'aboutissent pas...
Hitler's Children (1943)
, 1h22Directed by Edward Dmytryk, Irving Reis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Otto Kruger, H. B. Warner, Lloyd Corrigan
Roles M Muller
Rating63%
In 1933 Berlin, Professor Nichols (Smith) runs the American Colony School. It is next to the Horst Wessel School, where young Germans are indoctrinated into Nazism. During a brawl between the student bodies, Karl Bruner (Holt), a German youth born in the United States, objects when Anna Muller (Granville), a US citizen born in Germany, smacks him with her baseball bat. The students are attracted to each other despite this beginning. Anna's parents had sent her to Germany to be educated, although they allowed her to go to the American school. Soon, the professor, Anna, and Karl become good friends, though they do not agree politically. After a while though, they lose touch with each other.
They Came to Blow Up America (1943)
, 1h13Directed by Edward Ludwig
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Robert Barrat, Charles McGraw, George Sanders, Anna Sten, Ralph Byrd, Ward Bond
Roles Mama Henrietta Steelman
Rating63%
When only six of eight would-be German saboteurs are sentenced to death by an American court during World War II, an FBI agent complains to his boss, Craig (Ward Bond), about the other two. Craig tells him about one of the men sentenced to prison. A flashback ensues.
Claudia (1943)
, 1h21Directed by Edmund Goulding
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Robert Young, Ina Claire, Reginald Gardiner, Olga Baclanova
Roles Bertha
Rating64%
La jeune Claudia Naughton rend la vie de son mari David difficile car elle ne supporte pas de vivre loin de sa mère. Elle a également peur que son mari ne la trouve pas assez séduisante. Pour remédier à ces problèmes, Claudia vend la ferme du couple à une chanteuse d'opéra, pour obliger les époux à revenir vivre en ville, près de sa mère. Elle essaie également de rendre son mari jaloux en flirtant avec un voisin. Lorsqu'elle découvre qu'elle est enceinte et que sa propre mère est gravement malade, Claudia doit néanmoins se résoudre à grandir .
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
, 2h8Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea, Elsa Janssen, Ludwig Stössel
Roles Christina 'Mom' Gehrig
Rating75%
Lou Gehrig (Cooper) is a young Columbia University student whose old-fashioned mother (Elsa Janssen) wants him to study hard and become an engineer. But the young man has a gift for baseball. A sportswriter (Brennan) befriends Gehrig and persuades a scout to come see him play. Before long Gehrig signs with the team he has always revered, the New York Yankees. With the help of his father (Ludwig Stössel), he endeavors to keep his career change a secret from his mother.
Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
, 1h38Directed by John Farrow, Harve Foster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Coote, Ray Collins
Rating65%
Erik Toresen (Paul Muni), a widower and peaceful man, is stirred to violence after the Nazis occupy his quiet Norwegian fishing village. German abuses lead Erik to form a Resistance group. He kills the head of the Nazis occupying his village, and then escapes to Britain, and guides some British Commandos to a raid on a secret airstrip the Germans are building on the Norwegian coast.
The Fatal Hour (1940)
, 1h8Directed by William Nigh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Marjorie Reynolds, Charles Trowbridge, Frank Puglia, Craig Reynolds
Roles Hotel Maid
Rating54%
Lorsqu'un agent de police est assassiné, le capitaine, rue semble à M. Wong pour attraper le tueur. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., dont le père est un homme d'affaires bien connu pour son succès à la fois et la malhonnêteté. M. Wong est en danger de plus en plus et est presque lui-même exécuté que l'enquête se développe dans la trahison et de la complexité. Comme M. Wong suit les traces des cadavres, il découvre un anneau de contrebande de bijou sur le front de mer de San Francisco et une affaire beaucoup plus grande que la mort d'un officier de police.
Thin Ice (1937)
, 1h19Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Arthur Treacher, Raymond Walburn, Joan Davis, Sig Ruman, Alan Hale
Roles Elsa
Rating62%
The plot follows ski instructor Lili Heiser (Henie), who works at a local luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps. She falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning (Power). She thinks he's an everyday tourist, not knowing that he's actually a prince trying to escape the pressures of royal life.
Heidi (1937)
, 1h28Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about children, Children's films
Actors Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher, Mary Nash, Marcia Mae Jones, Sidney Blackmer
Roles La troisième villageoise
Rating71%
Adelheid, called Heidi (Shirley Temple), is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather (Jean Hersholt). She is then stolen back by her aunt from her grandfather to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt, Germany as a companion to Klara (Marcia Mae Jones), a sheltered, disabled girl in a wheelchair.