Margarete Kupfer
Acting
Biography
Margarete Kupfer (born Margarete Kupferschmid; 10 April 1881 – 11 May 1953) was a German actress.
Born: April 10, 1881
Place of Birth: Freystadt in Schlesien, Germany
Known For
People Among Us
Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers, and losers, represented by the social microcosm of an apartment building. The gossip-mad Frau Mierig from the rear building gives the newly-arrived Frau Kaminski, the janitor's wife, a lively initiation into the tenants and their peculiarities.
Woman in the Moon
A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.
Nathan der Weise
Silent movie adaptation of Lessing's play. Set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, it describes how the wise Jewish merchant Nathan, the enlightened sultan Saladin and the (initially anonymous) Templar bridge their gaps between Judaism, Islam and Christianity.
The Love of Jeanne Ney
In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas's naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy.
The Congress Dances
Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant diversions to keep him out of the negotiation conferences of the 1815 Vienna Congress.
Married by the Stork
A modernist lady sculptor seeks a model for a statue to be put in front of a Berlin hospital, and finds him in the form of a London policeman-boxer. She's also interested in having a child.
The Gypsy Baron
Sándor Barinkay joins the gypsies en route to his home village hiding his real identity as an Hungarian nobleman, whose parents were sent to exile. He claims his former properties, now taken by a pig merchant who plays the fool to the villagers' delight. Yet this man has an interesting daughter, and there's also the beautiful gypsy Saffi to consider. And a family hidden treasure to be found.
Fairground People
Young Anny returns from school to her circus family, which runs a little venue at the town fair. When Anny suddenly has to fill in for one of the artists, her piano-playing not only enthrals the audience, but also theatre agent Horbes. He casts the whole family for the Apollo theatre in Berlin, where Anny quickly raises to stardom and is offered an engagement from the US.
Baby
The daughter of the Parisian countess Lafitte, named "Baby", is supposed to go to an English boarding school, but she's much more interested in variety shows. Nevertheless, she travels with her friend Susette to London, who also wants to make a career for herself as a showgirl. During the journey, Baby is mistakenly considered to be a showgirl and she does nothing to dissuade two young English lords from believing so. The girls continue to live under false pretenses even when they arrive in England, with Baby being a soloist with the group "Babies" and Suzette passing herself off as the Contessa Lafitte for school exams. At the end -- a double marriage.
Die Umwege des schönen Karl
Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants to have enough money himself.
Filmography
as Muttchen Kühn
as Frau Proske
as Frau Marunde
as Frau Götz
as Frau Böhme
as Mutter Lieschke
as Malvine Pfeiffer
as Paula Braun
as Blumenfrau
as Frau Tübbecke
as Frau Kulikowski
as Frau Menzel
as Frau Holzapfel
as Tante Knifke
as Madame Turpin
as Frau Schnuller
as Czipra
as Kulka
as Josefa Schmatzer
as Jadwiga Kwasinskaja
as Berta, seine Frau
as Gertrude, Marias Wirtschafterin
as Frau Jürgens
as Frau Maschke
as Agathe Bolte, Veronikas Zimmerfrau
as Garderobiere
as Mutter Krause
as Amelies Wirtin
as Frau Breitsprecher
as Dantons Frau / wife of Danton
as Anna
as Franz' Frau
as Frau Müller
as Seine Frau
as Mutter Gohlke, Wäscherin
as Bella da Vasco
as Gräfin
as Kurpfuscherin
as Priscilla, seine Frau
as Mrs. Schild
as Anny's mother
as Frau Heye
as Annys Tante
as Frau Hippolt
as Tante Finchen
as Mme. Heuser
as Frau Hille
as Frau Hapke, Zimmervermieterin
as Frau Schurich
as Die Ledermüllerin
as Wirtin
as Zimmermädchen
as Frau Kraatz
as Frau Reiner
as Anny Kiliane
as Rosa, Haushälterin
as seine süße Braut
as Ottilie Lüdering
as Frau Zielke
as Köchin
as Ria Ricarda Roda
as Frau Storchschnabel
as Frau Romberg
as Verwalterin
as Alma Kupfer
as Lieschen Klumpp
as Die Mutter
as Frau Direktor
as Marta
as Nachbarin
as Tante
as Daja
as Die alte Safi
as Olga Ziesemack
as Alte Frau
as o. A.
as Sanna Kraker
as Maria Friesländer
as Ruth's Tante Lady Crawford
as Madame Duval
as Carmen's Landlady
as Dance Hall Proprietress
as Gouvernante