Dita Parlo
Acting
Biography
Dita Parlo, born either Grethe Gerda Kornstädt or Gerda Olga Justine Kornstädt, was a German film actress.
Born: September 4, 1908
Place of Birth: Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]
Known For
The Queen of Spades
A gambling countess comes by a secret three card combination that wins her a fortune, but she is allowed to use it only once and not gamble again. She passes on the info twice, and the recipients both die violently. She is warned that if she passes it on again, she too will die. Many years later, a young soldier discovers that the countess has the secret, and he resolves to get it out of her.
Grand Illusion
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.
L'Atalante
Newly married couple Juliette and ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'Atalante along with the captain's first mate and a cabin boy.
Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo
Peace on the Rhine
During the lead up to a second World War, one of several French films hoping for peace,specifically between Germany and France as shown by a border family in Alsace trying to resolve their differences.
Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé
Courier of Lyons
A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.
Street of Shadows
A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.
The Kidnapping
Hans has killed the dog of Firmin, a shepherd. Wild with rage, Firmin kidnaps Elsi, Hans' fiancée and locks her up at his home. Hans, a peddler, vows to find the missing girl. This is what he does and he manages, with the help of Mânu, the village idiot, to give Elsi a letter. On seeing her, the changeling falls in love at first sight with the young woman. Elsi soon realizes that Mânu can become her instrument of vengeance.
Au Bonheur des Dames
Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crushes all the little businesses around. She finds a position there.
Filmography
as Juliette (archive footage)
as Comtesse Anna Fedorovna
as Elisabeth
as Lisbeth
as Hedwige
as Anna Salic
as Vera
as Jeanne de Romer
as Dr. Anne-Marie Lesser
as Mina Lesurques - The Wife of the Accused
as Elsa
as Anne-Marie Lesser dite : Mlle Docteur
as Elsi
as Juliette
as The Girl (archive footage)
as Roszi
as Annie Marlow
as Self
as Alma
as Stella
as Dancer Inge
as Denise
as Julia Balog
as Jeanette
as Slave of the Princess
as Anna
as Marika