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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! This is a "bookplate", made by the Ross company that also made the 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" "Ross postcards". Examples of these bookplates were used in the 1935 German books "Vom Werder Deutcher Filmkunst: Der Stumme Film (literally translates to "The Making of German Cinematic Art: The Silent Film") & Vom Werder Deutcher Filmkunst; Der Tonfilm (The Making of German Cinematic Art: The Sound Film). This bookplate is identical to one found in the "Silent Film" book described above (which means it was created in 1935, when the book was published), but of course, it was not placed in the book. We don't know if these were distributed in another way, or if they are samples distributed to promote the above books. Each of these bookplates has a scene from a movie on the front and information about the movie, plus what book is belonged in on the back!

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