Dita Parlo
Popularity:0.124
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1908-09-04
Place of Birth:Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]
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Also Known As:Grethe Gerda Kornstädt

Grand Illusion (1937)
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own...

L'Atalante (1934)
Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As...

Mr. Broadway (1933)
Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.

Courier of Lyons (1937)
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...

Au Bonheur des Dames (1930)
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...

Street Without Joy (1938)
Jeanne supports supports his family on his modest salary. Her boss is arrested for fraud. Jeanne is forced, out of poverty, in the street.

Street of Shadows (1937)
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,...

Homecoming (1928)
Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany...

The Queen of Spades (1965)
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. ...

Hungarian Rhapsody (1928)
On the plains of Hungary, Franz, a Hussard lieutenant, broods about his future; Born into an aristocratic family, his father drank away the family...

Girls For Sale! (1951)
The 1931 German film, Tanzerinnen Fur Sud-Amerika Gesucht, adapted in 1951 for US showings with editing, added sequences, some English subtitles and...

Men Behind Bars (1931)
German-language version of "The Big House" (MGM, 1930), with Heinrich George in Wallace Beery's role, filmed by MGM parallel to the English-speaking...

The Kidnapping (1934)
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...

Ultimatum (1938)
About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer...

We're switching to Hollywood (1931)
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak...

Peace on the Rhine (1938)
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...

Melody of the Heart (1929)
A young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who's saving money to...

Kismet (1931)
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the...

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The Holy Flames (1931)
This is the German-language version of 1929's "The Sacred Flame", from the W. Somerset Maugham play, shot by Warner Bros. in Hollywood with a...

Justice Is Done (1950)
Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal...

Secrets of the Orient (1928)
Directed by Alexandre Volkoff

Girls for Sale (1931)
About trafficking. A nightclub in Buenos Aires is advertising for blonde women for glamorous jobs.

Cristobal's Gold (1940)
Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the Cristobal carries a priceless...

Tropical Nights (1931)
"Tropical Nights" - The young violinist Alma comes to Simbali with an orchestra led by conductor Zangiacoma, hired for a series of performances at...

Honor of the Family (1931)
Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.

Manolescu, the Prince of Adventures (1929)
George Manolescu (Ivan Mouskojine) plays a confidence man who works his way from Paris to New York, along the way during a train ride to Monte Carlo...

The Woman of Monte Carlo (1938)
An adventuress serves as bait for a swindler, who robs the naive people she brings to him with poker. A childhood friend helps him.

Under Secret Orders (1937)
During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for...

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1978)
Produced for television by Claude-Jean Philippe, the « Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma », recounts the history of...