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Hilde Warren und der Tod (literally translates to "Hilde Warren and Death"), the 1917 Joe May German silent horror fantasy family relationship murder melodrama (written by Fritz Lang; about a famous female actress who rejects the manager of her theater when he proposes; a literal Death comes for her, but she rejects him as well; she gets involved with a gangster and he is killed, and she is pregnant with his child, and again, Death comes for her, and again she rejects him; her child grows up to be "bad", and she refuses to give him up, and also, she refuses Death again; her son grows up leeching off of her, and he bankrupts her and becomes a criminal, and he comes to her for money, and she refuses, and he knocks her down and she shoots him and he dies; the police arrest her and she is condemned to jail, and Death comes one last time, and this time she accepts his offer!) starring Mia May (in the title role as Hilde Warren), Bruno Kastner, Georg John (as Death), Hans Mierendorff, Ernst Matray, and Fritz Lang (in a cameo role as the "old priest"!). Note that director Joe May was incredibly important to German cinema! He started directing in 1911 and started a production company a few years later. He was the first to hire Fritz Lang (as a screenwriter). When the Nazis rose to power, he went to the U.S. where he became a director for Universal, but he did not have the success of other German directors, likely because he did not learn English very well, and had a poor attitude toward the cast and crew. His last movie was for Monogram in 1944, and he later owned a restaurant in Hollywood, where he was the inspiration for Seinfeld's decades later "Soup Nazi", telling customers what they should and shouldn't order!
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Important Added Info: Note that this is a "country of origin" item for this German movie! Also note that this German Ross Postcard measures 3 1/2" x 5 1/4" [9 x 13 cm]. Finally, note that in the 1920s and 1930s in Germany, it became a common practice to pass out 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" "Ross postcards" to the people who attended a movie. These were postcards that people could send through the mail (each had a picture of one of the movie's stars on it, and standard postcard markings on the other side). But these were also sent to theaters where the stars would make personal appearances, and members of the audience would get the stars to autograph them if they could, but of course, the cards themselves did not come autographed! Sometimes the theaters would cut four slits in the upper left of the front cover of the program for that movie and have the "Ross postcards" inserted into that area, so that the audience members would get the program and the card together! We imagine that theaters hoped that audience members would mail the postcards after they saw the movie to friends, telling them how much they enjoyed it, thus creating advertising for the movie. These are often called "Ross autograph cards" by collectors, because moviegoers did often obtain autographs on them. Ross postcards are quite collectible, signed or unsigned, but of course, they are worth far more signed. They are often quite rare, because most German paper of all kinds from before World War II was destroyed during the war, due to the massive paper shortages there at that time.

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