Little is known about the German silent film Das Glück der Frau Beate/The luck of the Mrs. Beate (Alwin Neuß, Otto Rippert, 1918). The title figure was played by Ressel Orla, whose career peaked at the end of the 1910s and early 1920s.
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German postcard by Rotophot in the Film Sterne series, no. 548/1, 1919-1924. Photo: Decla. Publicity still for Das Glück der Frau Beate/The luck of the Mrs. Beate (Alwin Neuß, Otto Rippert, 1918).
What do we know about Das Glück der Frau Beate/The luck of the Mrs. Beate (1918)? The film is considered as lost and the plot is unclear. Das Glück der Frau Beate was produced by Decla Film (originally Deutsche Eclair), a German film production and distribution company of the silent era.
Decla was formed in 1911 as the German subsidiary of the French company Eclair, it was taken into German ownership in 1915 during the First World War. Under the leadership of Erich Pommer, Decla emerged as one of the leading German film companies of the early Weimar era.
The film was directed by a tandem, Alwin Neußand Otto Rippert. Neuss was a well-known actor/director, noted for playing Sherlock Holmes in a series of silent films during the 1910s. Rippert was a noted film director during the silent era. In 1912 he started to work as a director for Continental-Kunstfilm of Berlin and made some ten films between 1912 and 1914. However, his reputation as one of the pioneers of German silent film rests on some of his later achievements,
Otto Rippert directed the classic silent film Homunculus (1916), produced by Deutsche Bioskop in 1916. Homunculus is a six-part serial science fiction film involving mad scientists, superhuman androids and sinister technology. The film foreshadows various elements of Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927), as well as serving as a model for later adaptations of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'.
Das Glück der Frau Beate/The luck of the Mrs. Beate (1918) was the only film Otto Rippert and Alwin Neuss directed together. In 1924, Rippert stopped directing films and began to work as a film editor. The fame of Alwin Neuss began to fade in the 1920s, and he only appeared in few more films. Sound ended his film career.
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German postcard by Rotophot in the Film Sterne series, no. 548/4, 1919-1924. Photo: Decla. Publicity still for Das Glück der Frau Beate/The luck of the Mrs. Beate (Alwin Neuß, Otto Rippert, 1918).
![Ressel Orla in Das Glück der Frau Beate (1918)]()
German postcard by Rotophot in the Film Sterne series, no. 548/5, 1919-1924. Photo: Decla. Publicity still for Das Glück der Frau Beate/The luck of the Mrs. Beate (Alwin Neuß, Otto Rippert, 1918).
The three main characters in Das Glück der Frau Beate/The luck of the Mrs. Beate (1918) were played by Emil Biron as the husband, Ressel Orla as Beate, and Max Ruhbeck as the admirer.
German actor Emil Biron made 29 films between 1917 and 1935, including Die Weber/The Weavers (Friedrich Zelnik, 1927) in which he played King Frederick William IV.
Ressel Orla was an Austrian-Jewish actress, who appeared in some of Fritz Lang's earliest films, including Halbblut/Half-blood (Fritz Lang, 1919), the first film Lang directed, and the serial adventure film Die Spinnen/The Spiders (Fritz Lang, 1919-1920), both starring Carl de Vogt.
Max Ruhbeck was a German actor, who appeared in more than ninety films from 1915 to 1923, including Otto Rippert's six chapter German science fiction film Homunculus, directed by Otto Rippert.
![Ressel Orla and Max Ruhbeck in Das Glück der Frau Beate (1918)]()
German postcard by Rotophot in the Film Sterne series, no. 548/7, 1919-1924. Photo: Decla. Publicity still for Das Glück der Frau Beate/The luck of the Mrs. Beate (Alwin Neuß, Otto Rippert, 1918).
![Ressel Orla in Das Glück der Frau Beate (1918)]()
German postcard by Rotophot in the Film Sterne series, no. 548/8, 1919-1924. Photo: Decla. Publicity still for Das Glück der Frau Beate/The luck of the Mrs. Beate (Alwin Neuß, Otto Rippert, 1918).
Tomorrow EFSP has a post on another film by director Otto Rippert from the same year, the 'Sittenfilm' Der Weg, der zur Verdammnis führt, I. Das Schicksal der Änne Wolter/The Road to Damnation, 1. The Fate of Anne Wolter (Otto Rippert, 1918), with Charlotte Böcklin.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
German postcard by Rotophot in the Film Sterne series, no. 548/1, 1919-1924. Photo: Decla. Publicity still for Das Glück der Frau Beate/The luck of the Mrs. Beate (Alwin Neuß, Otto Rippert, 1918).
The Sherlock Holmes of the silent era
What do we know about Das Glück der Frau Beate/The luck of the Mrs. Beate (1918)? The film is considered as lost and the plot is unclear. Das Glück der Frau Beate was produced by Decla Film (originally Deutsche Eclair), a German film production and distribution company of the silent era.
Decla was formed in 1911 as the German subsidiary of the French company Eclair, it was taken into German ownership in 1915 during the First World War. Under the leadership of Erich Pommer, Decla emerged as one of the leading German film companies of the early Weimar era.
The film was directed by a tandem, Alwin Neußand Otto Rippert. Neuss was a well-known actor/director, noted for playing Sherlock Holmes in a series of silent films during the 1910s. Rippert was a noted film director during the silent era. In 1912 he started to work as a director for Continental-Kunstfilm of Berlin and made some ten films between 1912 and 1914. However, his reputation as one of the pioneers of German silent film rests on some of his later achievements,
Otto Rippert directed the classic silent film Homunculus (1916), produced by Deutsche Bioskop in 1916. Homunculus is a six-part serial science fiction film involving mad scientists, superhuman androids and sinister technology. The film foreshadows various elements of Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927), as well as serving as a model for later adaptations of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'.
Das Glück der Frau Beate/The luck of the Mrs. Beate (1918) was the only film Otto Rippert and Alwin Neuss directed together. In 1924, Rippert stopped directing films and began to work as a film editor. The fame of Alwin Neuss began to fade in the 1920s, and he only appeared in few more films. Sound ended his film career.
German postcard by Rotophot in the Film Sterne series, no. 548/4, 1919-1924. Photo: Decla. Publicity still for Das Glück der Frau Beate/The luck of the Mrs. Beate (Alwin Neuß, Otto Rippert, 1918).
German postcard by Rotophot in the Film Sterne series, no. 548/5, 1919-1924. Photo: Decla. Publicity still for Das Glück der Frau Beate/The luck of the Mrs. Beate (Alwin Neuß, Otto Rippert, 1918).
Fritz Lang
The three main characters in Das Glück der Frau Beate/The luck of the Mrs. Beate (1918) were played by Emil Biron as the husband, Ressel Orla as Beate, and Max Ruhbeck as the admirer.
German actor Emil Biron made 29 films between 1917 and 1935, including Die Weber/The Weavers (Friedrich Zelnik, 1927) in which he played King Frederick William IV.
Ressel Orla was an Austrian-Jewish actress, who appeared in some of Fritz Lang's earliest films, including Halbblut/Half-blood (Fritz Lang, 1919), the first film Lang directed, and the serial adventure film Die Spinnen/The Spiders (Fritz Lang, 1919-1920), both starring Carl de Vogt.
Max Ruhbeck was a German actor, who appeared in more than ninety films from 1915 to 1923, including Otto Rippert's six chapter German science fiction film Homunculus, directed by Otto Rippert.
German postcard by Rotophot in the Film Sterne series, no. 548/7, 1919-1924. Photo: Decla. Publicity still for Das Glück der Frau Beate/The luck of the Mrs. Beate (Alwin Neuß, Otto Rippert, 1918).
German postcard by Rotophot in the Film Sterne series, no. 548/8, 1919-1924. Photo: Decla. Publicity still for Das Glück der Frau Beate/The luck of the Mrs. Beate (Alwin Neuß, Otto Rippert, 1918).
Tomorrow EFSP has a post on another film by director Otto Rippert from the same year, the 'Sittenfilm' Der Weg, der zur Verdammnis führt, I. Das Schicksal der Änne Wolter/The Road to Damnation, 1. The Fate of Anne Wolter (Otto Rippert, 1918), with Charlotte Böcklin.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.