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Ossi Oswalda
Ossi Oswalda (1895-1947) was one of the most popular comediennes of German silent cinema. Born in Berlin, but of Prague origin, Oswalda, whose real name was Oswalda Stäglich, was discovered by Ernst Lubitsch, her Pygmalion, who let her play in numerous comedies between 1916 and 1920, which joked with the provincial and stiff petty-bourgeois mentality of Wilhelminian Germany. Examples are Der gemischte Frauenchor (1916), Hundemamachen (1918), and Meine Frau, die Filmschauspielerin (1918). The best of these was Die Austernprinzessin (1919), in which Ossi is a spoiled daughter of a wealthy American, who is supposed to wed an impoverished German prince (but is marrying his stupid servant instead). The whole film exaggerated all the clichés about Americans who like everything big and make modern, absurdistic music, and about Germans who are only interested in food & drinks, but Lubitsch did so in a very witty way. When Lubitsch left for America he left Ossi in the hands of Viktor Janson, who was not unworthy but repeated Oswalda's typology of the unrestrained, wild and witty girl, without adding the spicery Lubitsch always added to it. When Oswalda's name circled around that of former crown prince Wilhelm, while that of Lily Damita around the prince's son Ludwig Ferdinand, insulting caricatures spread and the Hohenzollern family stopped both affairs short. The affair also influenced Oswalda's career, who continued to make films but never reached the tops anymore like before. Her star dwindled down, acting in ever smaller parts and stopping in 1933. Only in 1947 she was shortly talk of the town again, when it was heard that she had died in Prague in the most miserable conditions.
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Mia May
Encore! See also our other Mia May pictures in our European Film Star Postcard group:
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Willy FritschGerman postcard by Ross Verlag, nr. 6418/1. Photo: Atelier Binder, Berlin/Ufa.
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Willy Fritsch & Lilian HarveyDutch postcard, nr. 675. Photo: Ufa.
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