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Alice Hechy(1893-1973)

  • Actress
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Alice Hechy
An audacious revenge melodrama set under the canvas of the big top, starring Emil Jannings... A key work of German silent cinema and an international smash on its release, E. A. Dupont's Varieté (Variety) is an audacious revenge melodrama set under the canvas of the big top. When Boss Huller (the iconic Emil Jannings) meets the young émigré Berta-Marie (Lya De Putti), it kindles his desire to relaunch his career as a trapeze artist, stalled due to an injury and the pressures of domestic life. But with passion comes obsession, and with the involvement of the famed Artinelli into their act, tensions rise to a fever pitch. Visually astonishing, with some of the most inventive camerawork of the 1920s, and a typically intense and vivid central performance from Jannings, Varieté is presented here in an all-new restoration of the original German version. Featuring two scores: one by Stephen Horne (as performed at the London Film Festival 2015, and one by the Tiger Lilies (as performed at Berlinale 2015).
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Alice Hechy was born on 21 July 1893 in Anklam, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. She was an actress, known for Hoffmanns Erzählungen (1916), Die Puppe vom Lunapark (1925) and Red Powder (1913). She died on 26 May 1973 in Berlin, Germany.
BornJuly 21, 1893
DiedMay 26, 1973(79)
BornJuly 21, 1893
DiedMay 26, 1973(79)
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Known for

Hoffmanns Erzählungen (1916)
Hoffmanns Erzählungen
5.8
  • Olympia, ein Automat(as Alice Scheel-Hechy)
  • 1916
Die Puppe vom Lunapark
  • Actress
  • 1925
Red Powder (1913)
Red Powder
  • Actress(as Alice Scheel-Hechy)
  • 1913
Josef Fenneker in Variety (1925)
Variety
7.4
  • Actress
  • 1925

Credits

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Actress

  • Nanon (1938)
    Nanon
    6.0
    • 1938
  • His Late Excellency (1935)
    His Late Excellency
    • Varietésängerin
    • 1935
  • 1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand (1931)
    1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand
    7.1
    • Alexandra Alexandrowna
    • 1931
  • Das Kabinett des Dr. Larifari (1930)
    Das Kabinett des Dr. Larifari
    6.2
    • Ehefrau
    • 1930
  • Anny Ondra in Das Mädel aus U.S.A. (1930)
    Das Mädel aus U.S.A.
    • Grit Barfuss
    • 1930
  • Gustav Mond, Du gehst so stille
    • Ein zweifelhaftes Mädchen
    • 1928
  • Zuflucht (1928)
    Zuflucht
    7.1
    • Guste, beider Tochter
    • 1928
  • Batalla de damas
    5.9
    • 1928
  • Der rosa Diamant
    • Lady Fox, Revuestar
    • 1926
  • Josef Fenneker in Variety (1925)
    Variety
    7.4
    • 1925
  • Die abenteuerliche Hochzeit
    • Ruth
    • 1925
  • Die Puppe vom Lunapark
    • 1925
  • Josef Fenneker in This Ancient Law (1923)
    This Ancient Law
    7.2
    • Beider Tochter
    • 1923
  • Josef Fenneker in So sind die Männer (1923)
    So sind die Männer
    5.5
    • Annemarie
    • 1923
  • Wien, du Stadt der Lieder
    • 1923

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Personal details

  • Alternative name
    • Alice Scheel-Hechy
  • Born
    • July 21, 1893
    • Anklam, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
  • Died
    • May 26, 1973
    • Berlin, Germany(undisclosed)
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    • 1 Article

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    Her most significant representation in the 10's was the mechanical doll Olympia in Richard Oswald's earlier big screen adaptation of the opera The Tales of Hoffmann in 1916.

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