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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Variétés (1925)

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 Das rote Pulver (1913). She died on 26 May 1973 in Berlin, Germany.

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Known for

Hoffmanns Erzählungen (1916)

Hoffmanns Erzählungen

5.9

Olympia, ein Automat(as Alice Scheel-Hechy)

1916

Die Puppe vom Lunapark

Actress

1925

Das rote Pulver (1913)

Das rote Pulver

Actress(as Alice Scheel-Hechy)

1913

Teufelchen (1915)

Actress(as Alice Scheel-Hechy)

1915

Credits

Actress

Nanon
6.1
- 1938
Die selige Exzellenz
- Varietésängerin
- 1935
1914, fleurs meurtries
7.4
- Alexandra Alexandrowna
- 1931
Das Kabinett des Dr. Larifari
6.3
- Ehefrau
- 1930
Anny américaine
- Grit Barfuss
- 1930
Gustav Mond, Du gehst so stille
- Ein zweifelhaftes Mädchen
- 1928
Zuflucht
7.1
- Guste, beider Tochter
- 1928
Batalla de damas
6.6
- 1928
Der rosa Diamant
- Lady Fox, Revuestar
- 1926
Variétés
7.4
- 1925
Die abenteuerliche Hochzeit
- Ruth
- 1925
Die Puppe vom Lunapark
- 1925
L'évasion de Baruch
7.3
- Beider Tochter
- 1923
Caprice de femme
5.7
- 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)
Publicity listings
- 1 Article

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Trivia
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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