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Dolly Haas is a Actor Allemande born on 29 april 1910 at Hamburg (German)

Dolly Haas

Dolly Haas
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Birth name Dorothy Clara Louise Haas
Nationality German
Birth 29 april 1910 at Hamburg (German)
Death 16 september 1994 (at 84 years) at New York City (USA)

Dorothy Clara Louise "Dolly" Haas (29 April 1910 – 16 September 1994) was an actress and singer who played in German and American films, and often appeared in Broadway plays. Her husband was caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.

Biography

Carrière
Dorothy Haas naît à Hambourg d'un père britannique et d'une mère autrichienne. Elle débute au théâtre durant sa jeunesse. Elle tient un rôle secondaire dans l'opérette The Mikado de Gilbert et Sullivan, mise en scène à Berlin en 1927 par Erik Charell, puis est engagée en 1930 par Max Reinhardt. Elle effectue ses premières apparitions au cinéma dans Eine Stunde Glück de William Dieterle et Dolly macht Karriere d'Anatole Litvak. Haas est une actrice populaire en Allemagne à l'époque de la République de Weimar. De petite taille et d'allure androgyne, elle interprète des personnages de femmes battantes et apparaît souvent à l'écran travestie en homme. L'actrice quitte l'Allemagne en 1936 afin de poursuivre sa carrière au Royaume-Uni. Sa performance dans le remake du Lys brisé de D. W. Griffith tourné par John Brahm en 1936 lui permet de signer un contrat de trois ans avec Columbia Pictures. La société hollywoodienne ne la faisant pas tourner, elle rejoint New York, où elle connaît le succès à Broadway durant les années 1940. Dolly Haas effectue un retour au cinéma en 1953 en interprétant Alma Keller dans La Loi du silence (I Confess) d'Alfred Hitchcock.

La Berlinale lui consacre une retrospective en 1983. Elle apparaît dans le documentaire Dolly, Lotte and Maria de Rosa von Praunheim.


Vie privée
Dorothy Haas épouse le réalisateur John Brahm en 1937. Le couple se sépare en 1941. Deux ans plus tard elle se remarie avec le caricaturiste Al Hirschfeld. Elle obtient la nationalité américaine en 1940.

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Filmography of Dolly Haas (16 films)

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Actress

Dolly, Lotte and Maria, 1h
Directed by Rosa von Praunheim
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dolly Haas, Rosa von Praunheim
Roles self

The first of the three women portrayed in this documentary is the innovative dancer/mime/choreographer Lotte Goslar (1907-1997), who worked with Mary Wigman in pioneering modern dance, and choreographed productions by Bertolt Brecht. She developed her own style of expressive dance. In 1933 she left Germany and toured in Europe. Disgusted with Germany's Nazism she exiled herself in the United States. In one of her most famous solos, Grandma Always Danced, she was seen, first, as a baby, then as a bride, a mother and as an old woman. Goslar became a popular teacher of mime and body movement for actors. In the late 1940s, she taught in Los Angeles, where one of her pupils was Marilyn Monroe.
I Confess
I Confess (1953)
, 1h35
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Don Alvarado
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about religion
Actors Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne, O. E. Hasse, Dolly Haas
Roles Alma Keller
Rating71% 3.5986653.5986653.5986653.5986653.598665
Father Michael Logan (Clift) is a devout Catholic priest in Ste. Marie's Church in Quebec City. He employs German immigrants Otto Keller (O. E. Hasse) and his wife Alma (Dolly Haas) as caretaker and housekeeper. Otto also works part-time as a gardener for a shady lawyer called Villette.
The Merry Widow, 1h45
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Monde imaginaire, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Operetta films
Actors Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas, Una Merkel, Richard Haydn, Thomas Gomez, John Abbott
Roles 1st Little Girl (uncredited)
Rating57% 2.854152.854152.854152.854152.85415
The young widow Crystal Radek is invited to Marshovia, a small European kingdom, to attend the unveiling of a statue in honour of her deceased husband. The royal coffers are seriously in need of her money so the king sends out count Danilo to seduce her.
Du Barry was a Lady, 1h41
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Virginia O'Brien, Zero Mostel, Rags Ragland
Roles Miss April
Rating60% 3.049863.049863.049863.049863.04986
May Daly, une danseuse, est aimée par deux hommes : Louis Blore et Alec Howe. Par rivalité, Louis verse une drogue dans le verre d'Alec, mais par erreur il boit lui-même le verre. Louis rêve alors qu'il est Louis XV et retrouve May en Madame du Barry.
The Bank Dick, 1h12
Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors W. C. Fields, Una Merkel, Cora Witherspoon, Jessie Ralph, Grady Sutton, Franklin Pangborn
Roles Script Girl (uncredited)
Rating70% 3.544233.544233.544233.544233.54423
Egbert Sousé est pris par inadvertance pour celui qui a permis l'arrestation d'un braqueur de banque. Plutôt que de démentir, il se vante de son coup d'éclat imaginaire. En remerciement, le directeur de la banque lui offre un poste de gardien.
Broken Blossoms, 1h18
Directed by John Brahm
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Arthur Margetson, Emlyn Williams, Basil Radford, C.V. France, Gibb McLaughlin, Dolly Haas
Roles Lucy Burrows
Rating53% 2.6911152.6911152.6911152.6911152.691115
A Chinese missionary comes to London where he works in the slums and helps a young girl being ill-treated by her abusive father.
The Private Secretary Gets Married
Directed by Henry Koster
Genres Comedy
Actors Dolly Haas, Otto Wallburg, Julius Falkenstein, Erich Kestin, Paul Rehkopf, Klaus Pohl
Roles Lotte
Rating67% 3.378933.378933.378933.378933.37893
Lotte März (Dolly Haas) is hired as a secretary at an insurance company because she is ugly; introducing her to the (male) accountants, the personnel manager says, "I hope that you will finally be able to work in peace." The men harass her and conspire to lure her into a compromising position by having one of them, Fritz Mahldorf (Max Hansen) pretend to find her attractive. The manager discovers her in an embrace with Fritz and fires her. The self-absorbed Fritz, showing remorse that is unusual for him, arranges for her to be rehired as assistant to Director Mönckeberg (Otto Wallburg, a comical figure). Lotte has fallen for him, but he makes a date at his flat with the Director's girlfriend, Lydia (Genia Nikolaieva). Soon after she arrives, so does Lotte, and then so does the jealous Director. Farcical misunderstandings ensue, including the discovery of Lydia's fur coat and a fancy-dress ball at the Director's villa in which Lotte dresses as a pirate (just like the Director). Lotte undergoes a complete makeover at a beauty parlour: haircut, perm and facial—and is transformed into an attractive flapper. (As the New York Times reviewer put it, "As always, however, the ugly duckling becomes a disturbingly graceful swan.") Fritz falls in love with her and love triumphs, although he remains a flatterer and a deceiver and she has contemplated suicide.