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| Lilian in Ein Blonder Traum, with Willy Fritsch at her left and Berlin in the background Youtube link to the film |
Lilian
Harvey, born in London in 1906, was an Anglo-German actress and
singer. Her mother was English and her father a German businessman.
She
met a huge success in 1930 with "Die Drei von der Tankstelle",
the first musical comedy of German cinema, directed by Wilhelm
Thiele.
In
1931, her French-German film The congress dances directed by Erik
Charell, the great producer of varieté shows, was one of the biggest
successes of the year.
Arte-TV showed
recently a comedy in which Lilian plays the leading role,
accompanied by Willy Fritsch: "Glückskinder". An unusual
film since it was shot under the Nazism, in 1936, and because the action was
located in New York, even if everybody speaks German.
She
was expelled from Germany by the Nazis who confiscated her fortune
(which she later recovered).
"Irgendwo
auf der Welt" ("Somewhere in the World") is a song
composed by Werner Richard Heymann for the 1932 movie A Blonde Dream
(Ein blonder Traum). The lyrics are by Robert Gilbert.
Originally
performed in the movie by Lilian, it gained popularity as one of the
most renowned songs by the German sextet, the Comedian Harmonists.
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| Lilian Harvey |
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| Miss Harvey demanding silence during the shooting of a sound film, in 1929 |
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