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  Brigitte Helm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brigitte Helm (March 17, 1908 – June 11, 1996) was a German actress.
She was born Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm in Berlin.
Her second, and by far the most memorable role, was as Maria in the silent film Metropolis.
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 METROPOLIS TO GOLD
Brigitte Helm, the German actress who defined the unobtainable, cool eye screen vamp as the haunting teen-age star of Fritz Lang's futuristic 1926 masterpiece, "Metropolis," died on Tuesday in Ascona, Switzerland, where she had lived in seclusion for more than 30 years.By her own account, she was 88.
Helm was regarded as such a perfect embodiment of the era's ideal of cool sophistication that when she turned Josef von Sternberg down for the starring role in "Blue Angel," he had to settle for Marlene Dietrich.
Helm who was 16 when she was tricked into taking a screen test, was suddenly on her way to stardom.
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 Helm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Brigitte Helm >> German-Hollywood Connection
Born in Berlin with the less than marquee-suitable name Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm, Brigitte Helm is best remembered for her role as the sexy robot in Fritz Lang's 1926 masterpiece Metropolis, her very first film role and the one that brought her instant celebrity.
The advent of talking pictures in the early 1930s was unkind to Helm and helped put a damper on her film career.
Though she was unhurt, poor Brigitte's dress caught fire during the filming, and Lang an his assistants had to quickly beat out the flames.
www.germanhollywood.com /bhelm.html   (786 words)

  
 Brigitte Helm | Biography (1906-1996)
Encouraged by he mother, Brigitte Helm does a screen test with Fritz Lang, who promptly hired her for a role in Metropolis.
Pabst's films Abwege (1928) and Die Herrin von Atlantis (1932) are among the films that allowed Brigitte Helm to act outside all the tired cliches she has all too often been subjected to by script writers and producers.
Brigitte Helm's relationship with Ufa is very rocky.
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 From Metropolis to Gold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Helm had retired from the screen in the mid-Thirties when Germany's reputable film industry began to be dictated to by the Third Reich.
Despite offers from Hollywood, Brigitte steadfastly refused to leave her beloved Germany where her friends, family, and her artistic reputation were established.
After her last film EIN IDEALER GATTE (An Ideal Husband) in 1935, Brigitte married a wealthy industrialist, gave birth to four sons, and lived a life of luxury in both Germany and Switzerland, never once regretting her decision to leave her film career behind.
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 Metropolis (1926) - German film history by Thomas Staedeli
Beside Freder, played by Gustav Fröhlich, who was an unknown actor in those days, there performs Brigitte Helm, who made her debut in the film business in the role of Maria.
When Fritz Lang shooted the film "Die Nibelungen", Brigitte Helm's mother had written to Thea von Harbou, in which she suggested to her, how talented her daughter would be.
Brigitte Helm didn't know anything of this and one day she stood quite abrupt in the film studio where she should play something to Fritz Lang.
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 Mistress of Atlantis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Brigitte Helm, the legendary beauty from Fritz Lang's "Metropolis," stars as Antinea, the Mistress of Atlantis, the lost empire that yet survives in the Sahara Desert.
Frigid Antinea is surrounded by her leopards, a giant stone statue of her face and a harem of hapless men ready to die for her.
Helm rose to sudden prominence on the world film scene at the age of 20 in Fritz Lang's "Metropolis." During her heyday she was one of the top-ranked actresses in Europe, an international sex goddess in the same league as Louise Brooks, Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich.
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 Metropolis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Frohlich, Rudolph Klein-Rogge (90min.)
Brigitte Helm plays the good Human Maria and the bad Robot Maria, created in an unforgettable, iconic scene.
Seventeen-year old Brigitte Helm gives a more felicitious performance.
www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDMetropolis.htm   (1272 words)

  
 Brigitte Helm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Born London; age 24.When 16 was selected without previous experience to play heroine in German film, "Metropolis." First British talkie, "The Blue Danube." Favorite recreation: riding.
Metropolis is a film which would dominate anyone's CV, but Helm had a healthy career in silents as one of the screen's great beauties, starring in classics like Alraune and L'Argent.
Her career cooled with the coming of sound though she continued to work steadily.
www.britishpictures.com /godfrey/card28.htm   (105 words)

  
 NewStandard: 6/14/96
ASCONA, Switzerland -- Brigitte Helm, who starred as the robot-vamp in Fritz Lang's silent screen classic "Metropolis," has died, a family spokesman said.
Helm was best known for her work in the 1926 film "Metropolis," in which she played both a virtuous young woman named Maria and a robot-seductress made to look just like the real Maria.
Helm next made a string of movies in which she almost always had the starring role, and she easily made the transition to sound movies.
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 Brigitte Helm: Old Autograph and Photo with Dog. CoA - col8633
Early Brigitte Helm silver brome photograph by Fritz Krapp.
Brigitte Helm retired from films upon her marriage in 1935; critical of the Nazi regime and married to a Jewish man, she and her spouse fled from the country.
Helm spent the rest of her life living in Switzerland and France.
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 BBC - Films - review - Metropolis
In the titular futuristic city, a ruling class live in opulence, while a literal underclass toil in a vast subterranean workshop.
Lured from his Edenic existence by the saintly Maria (Brigitte Helm), Freder Fredersen (Gustav Fröhlich) witnesses the misery of the working class and vows to persuade his despotic father, Joh (Alfred Abel), to change the system.
Its portrayal of brutal capitalism and the importance of compassion remain hugely relevant, and its message - "There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator" - resonant.
www.bbc.co.uk /films/2003/01/06/metropolis_1927_review.shtml   (392 words)

  
 eBay - brigitte helm, Movie Memorabilia, DVD items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Brigitte Helm Vint Dutch Scarce BW Photo Postcard
Brigitte Helm: Old Autograph and Photo with #760213
Metropolis MP A Poster Gustav Fröhlich Brigitte Helm
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 Brigitte Helm: From Metropolis to Gold. A portrait of a goddess (Peter Herzog , Gene Vazzana)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Second, it is not an in-depth biography of Brigitte Helm.
The rest of her life is dealt with in a couple of paragraphs.
It is also very short, less than a hundred pages, so the coverage of the films is also not as in-depth as it might be.
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 Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Brigitte Helm: MAIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Brigitte Helm was catapulted to stardom when she was selected to play the dual role of working girl Maria and her evil robot double in Fritz Lang's...
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 Combustible Celluloid film review - Metropolis (1927), Fritz Lang, Gustav Frohlich, Brigitte Helm, dvd review
One day, he spies Maria (Brigitte Helm), follows her to the underground city, and discovers the horrors going on there.
He disguises himself as a worker and discovers a plot for a revolt, albeit a peaceful one.
It also comes with a 43-minute making-of documentary, a restoration demonstration, photo galleries -- including shots of missing scenes, cast and crew biographies, a new score presented in 5.1 Dolby, audio commentary available in English, German, French and Spanish and intertitles available in English, German, French and Spanish.
www.combustiblecelluloid.com /classic/metropolis.shtml   (1101 words)

  
 Colored Images from Fritz Lang's Metropolis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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Brigitte Helm as False Maria, dancing in Yoshiwara
See more images of Brigitte Helm at Silent Ladies and Gent, which has
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 metropolis - movie and tv vault at videovista
The plot centres on Freder Fredersen (Gustav Frohlich), pampered son of Joh Fredersen (Alfred Abel) the ruler of the eponymous conurbation.
Freder gets smitten by a young woman named Maria (Brigitte Helm) escorting workers' children on a field trip to the upper levels of the gleaming towers of the gigantic city of the future, a setting so awesome that it is as much a character as the human inhabitants.
Rotwang's mission involves creating, in anticipation of and to defuse expected unrest, an agent provocateur, a 'robot-Maria' (Brigitte Helm again), so that the underclass, still following their radiantly lovely, charismatic leader, can be fooled and controlled.
www.videovista.net /reviews/feb05/metropolis.html   (515 words)

  
 Damek. » Blog Archive » Metropolis: It’s All About Brigitte Helm
Putting you at a loss for words for over a year.
I wouldn’t recommend it to just anyone looking for a good flick to watch; it almost put me to sleep.
Above all, I have to give it props for Brigitte Helm’s frightening portrayal of one of film’s first “evil android” characters.
www.damek.org /2005/01/24/metropolis-its-all-about-brigitte-helm   (973 words)

  
 misc
Two early German cigarette cards featuring the lovely Brigitte Helm.
A wonderful characature of Brigitte Helm by Mr.
Fritz Lang and Brigitte Helm surrounded by the girls of Yoshiwara's.
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 eBay.co.uk - helm, weta, helmet, Fantasy Myth Magic items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 Three Movie Buffs Review Metropolis (1927) Starring: Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich
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By today's standards some of the overwrought melodrama comes across as high comedy, still, overall, the acting and message of Metropolis have stood the test of time.
The standout in the film is Brigitte Helm in the dual role of Maria and the robot Futura.
www.threemoviebuffs.com /reviews/metropolis.htm   (497 words)

  
 Metropolis
Johhan Fredersen (Alfred Abel) is the authoritative governor of Metropolis, a city divided between a paradisiacal higher world and a dark underground close to Dante's hell.
His plans to annihilate his slaves will be thwarted by the meeting between his idealistic son Freder (Gustav Fröhlich) and the beautiful Maria (Brigitte Helm).
The man will try to sow discord thanks to a robot looking like Maria but a revolution will bring back the order.
www.plume-noire.com /movies/cult/metropolis.html   (830 words)

  
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Starring: Alfred Abel, Gustav Frohlich, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp, Theodor Loos, Heinrich George, Fritz Alberti, Grete Berger, Erwin Biswanger
The film has made a lasting icon of the late actress Brigitte Helm, and many of its most memorable images have become pop-culture staples.
In 1984 Metropolis was rereleased with a rock music score laid over the soundtrack to complement the visual action, and was done so to moderate success--while fitting to the film, sometimes the song selections can get too noisy and headache-inducing.
www.angelfire.com /movies/myoldaddiction6/Metropolis   (206 words)

  
 Comments on: Metropolis: It’s All About Brigitte Helm
Comment on Metropolis: It’s All About Brigitte Helm by: Christine Young
There are so many wonderful silent films out there to be seen.
I was lucky enough to catch it at the cinema, and have been tentative about revisiting it on the small screen for fear that my awe and wonder will be diminished.
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 Brigitte Helm - A master of the dramatic expressive visual art. Superstar - Star - Icon or just plain actor to some, ...
Brigitte Helm - A master of the dramatic expressive visual art.
For good or bad, moving stories in film and cinmea are becoming the some of the most visible achievements - the Silver Screen, DVD, VHS, Albums, they touch us.
Brigitte Helm : From TV to the Movie Screen.
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 Ablazingly Brigitte Helm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 L'Atlantide / Atlantis / 1932 / Georg Wilhelm Pabst / G.W. Pabst / 1932 / Brigitte Helm / film review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
L'Atlantide / Atlantis / 1932 / Georg Wilhelm Pabst / G.W. Pabst / 1932 / Brigitte Helm / film review
Distribution: Brigitte Helm (Antinea), Jean Angelo (le captaine Morhange), Pierre Blanchar (le lieutenant Saint-Avit), Georges Tourreil (le lieutenant Ferrières), Florelle (Clementine), Mathias Wieman (Ivar Torstenson), Jacques Richet (Jean Chataignier)
Durée: 89 min; NB Lieutenant Saint-Avit and Captain Morhange undertake an expedition to try to locate the lost city of Atlantis, which they believe to lie beneath the Sahara Desert.
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