Irma von Cube (December 26, 1899, Hanover – July 25, 1977) was a German-American screenwriter.[1] She began as an actress and a writer for films in Germany in the early 1930s, and continued when she arrived in the United States in 1938.
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Among her films are They Shall Have Music (1939), Johnny Belinda (1948), for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and Song of Love (1947) co-starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, and Robert Walker. She also directed one of five segments of the Italy-UK co-production anthology film A Tale of Five Cities (1951). She was the mother of Oscar-winning producer Konstantin Kalser.
Filmography
edit- Mädchenschicksale (dir. Richard Löwenbein, 1928)
- What Price Love? (dir. E. W. Emo, 1929)
- Farewell (dir. Robert Siodmak, 1930)
- Dolly Gets Ahead (dir. Anatole Litvak, 1930)
- The Stolen Face (dir. Philipp Lothar Mayring and Erich Schmidt, 1930)
- No More Love (dir. Anatole Litvak, 1931)[2]
- Calais-Dover (dir. Anatole Litvak and Jean Boyer, 1931)
- Der Hochtourist (dir. Alfred Zeisler, 1931)
- The Cheeky Devil (dir. Carl Boese and Heinz Hille, 1932)
- You Will Be My Wife (dir. Carl Boese, Heinz Hille and Serge de Poligny, 1932)
- The Song of Night (dir. Anatole Litvak, 1932)
- Tell Me Tonight (dir. Anatole Litvak, 1932)
- One Night's Song (dir. Anatole Litvak, 1933)
- Sehnsucht 202 (dir. Max Neufeld, 1932)
- Une jeune fille et un million (dir. Max Neufeld and Fred Ellis, 1932)
- Eine von uns (dir. Johannes Meyer, 1932)
- A Song for You (dir. Joe May, 1933)[3]
- Tout pour l'amour (dir. Joe May and Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1933)
- My Song for You (dir. Maurice Elvey, 1934)
- Mayerling (dir. Anatole Litvak, 1936)
- La Peur (dir. Victor Tourjansky, 1936)
- The Terrible Lovers (dir. Marc Allégret, 1936)
- Street of Shadows (dir. G. W. Pabst, 1937)
- Under Secret Orders (dir. Edmond T. Gréville, 1937)
- They Shall Have Music (dir. Archie Mayo, 1939)
- Song of Love (dir. Clarence Brown, 1947)
- Johnny Belinda (dir. Jean Negulesco, 1948)
- The Girl in White (dir. John Sturges, 1952)
Director
- A Tale of Five Cities (1951)
Actress
- Nameless Heroes (1925)
References
edit- ↑ Biographie, Deutsche. "Cube, Irma von - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-22.
- ↑ Capua, Michelangelo (2015-01-30). Anatole Litvak: The Life and Films. McFarland. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-7864-9413-2.
- ↑ Wright, Adrian (2020). Cheer Up!: British Musical Films, 1929-1945. Boydell & Brewer. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-78327-499-4.