Lil Dagover Actress (1897-1980) Dvds | Videos | Fritz Lang | Metropolis | M | Ufa Cabinet of Dr Caligari | Dr Mabuse | Spiders Thea von Harbou | Tartuffe Click here to buy posters! German actress Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert Java 1897 - Munich 1980 One of the international stars to emerge from the German cinema in the 1920s and 1930s. She had her screen debut in Fritz Lang's exotic costume drama Harakiri (1919), in which she first practised her unfocused offscreen look. An abstract element in Lang's mise-en-scene, but also capable of connoting emotional turmoil and nameless dread, this look was Dagover's most memorable acting contribution to her best-known part as Jane in Robert Wiene's Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari/The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920), adding greatly to the film's ambiguous tone, somewhere between horror and fascinated desire.

Lil Dagover, 1940

Dagover's skill with ocular excess gave depth to the mostly melodramatic roles she played in other Lang films, such as Dermiide Tod/Destiny (1921) and Dr Mabuse, der Spieler/Dr Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), and F. W. Murnau's Phantom (1922), making her an actress at once typically 'expressionist' and at the threshold of the transition from Henny Porten to the femmes fatales of Weimar cinema, such as Louise Brooks and Marlene Dietrich. In the 1970s, on talk shows and in interviews, she credibly represented Weimar cinema, giving its blessing to the neo-romantics of the New German Cinema. Other Films Include: Die Spinnen (1919); Tartuff (1926); Orient Express (1927); Der Kongress tanzt (1931); Schlufiakkord (1936); Buddenbrooks (1959); Der Richter und sein Henker/End of the Game (1976). lil dagover dvds | videos | fritz lang | metropolis | m | ufa cabinet of dr caligari | thea von harbou | tartuffe nagisa oshima | julie andrews | yul brynner | romy schneider the godfather | the godfather part ii marlon brando | james caan | diane keaton | al pacino laurence olivier | clark gable | vivien leigh | leslie howard | alfred hitchcock | robert montgomery | grace kelly olivia de havilland | humphrey bogart | howard hawks | frank capra | charlie chaplin | lauren bacall | fritz lang jean harlow | greta garbo | ava gardner | audrey hepburn | edward g. robinson | john garfield erich von stroheim | wim wenders | madeleine carroll | marlene dietrich | rita hayworth Click here to buy posters! lil dagover dvds lil dagover videos lil dagover dvds | videos | fritz lang | metropolis | m | ufa cabinet of dr caligari | thea von harbou triple cross | julie andrews | yul brynner | romy schneider the godfather | the godfather part ii marlon brando | james caan | diane keaton | al pacino laurence olivier | clark gable | vivien leigh | leslie howard | alfred hitchcock | robert montgomery | grace kelly olivia de havilland | humphrey bogart | howard hawks | frank capra | charlie chaplin | lauren bacall | fritz lang jean harlow | greta garbo | ava gardner | audrey hepburn | edward g. robinson | john garfield erich von stroheim | wim wenders | madeleine carroll | marlene dietrich | rita hayworth Page created by: ihuppert5@aol.com Changes last made: 2004