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Montage portrait of Conrad Veidt USA 1942 #978265

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Montage portrait of Conrad Veidt  USA 1942 #978265
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Montage portrait of the actor for the film "Nazi Agent" (photographer unknown)
Vintage silver gelatin print
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Stamps verso: Culver Pictures, Inc.
Label: 378-Montage by Frank Tanner <p> Conrad Veidt, is perhaps most famous for his lead role as the somnambulist Cesare in the 1919 horror classic "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari". Veidt was one of Germany's most popular film stars, who was brought to America in 1926 to play France's King Louis XI in Warner Bros./First National's "The Beloved Rogue". He then moved over to Universal, where he first made "A Man's Past" (now lost) and "The Man Who Laughs". First released in 1928 as a silent, Universal pulled the film from theaters, and then re-released it later that year with a a synchronized Movietone score that included some sound effects. Its director, the distinguished German filmmaker Paul Leni, had previously worked with Veidt in Waxworks (1924), in which Veidt had given an unforgettable performance as the paranoid Russian czar Ivan the Terrible. To this day, The Man Who Laughs remains one of the finest examples of German expressionism transplanted to American film, and Gywneplaine, whose face has been surgically distorted into a permanent and horrible smile, one of Veidts most acclaimed performances. Despite painful prosthetic make-up, Veidt gives one of his most powerful and eloquent performances, using his large, expressive eyes and his body language to convey the character's emotion ...
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<tr><td>Location:New York</td></tr>
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