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Infanterie-Regiment Kaiser Wilhelm, KĂśnig von PreuĂen (2. WĂźrttembergisches) Nr. 120
Grenadier-Regiment KĂśnig Karl (5. WĂźrttembergisches) Nr. 123
Infanterie-Regiment KĂśnig Wilhelm I (6. WĂźrttembergisches) Nr. 124
German postcard by F.J. RĂźdel Postkarten-Verlag, Hamburg-Bergedorf, ca. 1952. Photo: Venus-Delta-National.
Handsome, deep-voiced leading man Frits van Dongen (1901-1975) was the first Dutch Hollywood star. He started his film career in the Netherlands, and in the mid-1930s he became a matinee idol in the German cinema. From 1940 on, he worked in Hollywood, billed as Philip Dorn. A tragic accident caused him to retire in 1955.
Frits van Dongen was born as Hein van der Niet in Scheveningen, The Netherlands, in 1901. he was the son of shoemaker Leendert van der Niet and maid-servant Femia Schijf. At the age of 14, Hein made his amateur stage debut. At 20, he married to Cornelia Twilt whom he had met at the amateur stage company. Seven months later he became a father. He earned his money as a shoemaker but in 1923 he became a professional actor. Under the stage name Frits van Dongen he worked for the well-known Dutch theatre company De Haeghe-spelers from 1926 on. After a second son in 1926, his marriage did not go well. In 1929 he made a tour through the Dutch colonies. Reportedly Van Dongen had several affairs and in 1930 he and his wife divorced. A few months later, during another tour through the West Indies, he met the young actress Marianne van Dam. Two years later they married. In 1921, he had already made his film debut as an extra in the Dutch silent film De zwarte tulp/The Black Tulip (Maurits Binger, 1921), but his film career really started with a leading part in the fisher drama Op hoop van zegen/The Good Hope (Alex Benno, Louis Saalborn, 1934). This was the third film adaptation of the most famous Dutch stage play, written by Herman Heijermans, and Van Dongen was praised for his natural acting style. Soon more Dutch films followed. Van Dongen starred in the musical Op stap/On the Road (1935, Ernst Winar) starring Fien de la Mar, the comedy De big van het regiment/The Regimentâs Mascot (Max Nosseck, Jan Teunissen, 1935), another comedy De Kribbebijter/The Grumbler (Hermann Kosterlitz aka Henry Koster, Ernst Winar, 1935) and the tempestuous tropical romance Rubber (Gerard Rutten, Johan de Meester, 1936) with Enny Meunier.
In 1936 the German film studio Tobis offered Frits van Dongen a contract. He traveled to Berlin, and appeared in Immer wenn ich glĂźcklich bin/Waltz Melodies (Karl Lamac, 1936) with MĂĄrta Eggerth. The famous director Richard Eichberg gave him the leading part of Maharaja Chandra in the monumental two-part adventure Der Tiger von Eschnapur/The Tiger of Eschnapur - Das Indische Grabmal/The Indian Tomb (Richard Eichberg, 1938). This exotic extravaganza would be his breakthrough. The popular matinee idol appeared next in the mystery melodrama Verwehte Spuren/Covered Tracks (Veit Harlan, 1938) with Kristina SĂśderbaum, Der Hampelmann/The Jumping Jack (Karl Heinz Martin, 1938) with Hilde Krahl, and the psychological drama Die Reise nach Tilsit/The Trip to Tilsit (Veit Harlan, 1939), based on the novel by Hermann Sudermann, which was already filmed in a silent version as Sunrise (1927) by F.W. Murnau. Van Dongen was now top of the bill in Berlin, but he disliked the Nazi regime so much that he decided to leave Germany.
In 1939, Frits van Dongen moved to America just before World War II broke out. Director Henry Koster had invited him to come to Hollywood and gave him introductions. Between 1940 and 1951 he acted in dozens of MGM productions under the name Philip Dorn. He started with the low-budget anti-nazi film Enemy Agent (Lew Landers, 1940). During the war years, 10 of his 15 films were also such propaganda films. He was usually cast as Continental lovers, anti-Nazi Germans or refugees. His notable films include Escape (Mervyn LeRoy, 1940) starring Norma Shearer and Robert Taylor, Ziegfeld Girl (Robert Z. Leonard, 1941) with Judy Garland, Underground (Vincent Sherman, 1941), Tarzan's Secret Treasure (Richard Thorpe, 1941) starring Johnny Weissmuller, Random Harvest (Mervyn LeRoy, 1942) with Greer Garson, the melodrama Reunion in France (Jules Dassin, 1942) opposite Joan Crawford, Blonde Fever (Richard Whorf, 1944) with Gloria Grahame, and Passage to Marseille (Michael Curtiz, 1944) with Humphrey Bogart. In between films he did tours for the army with the Freedoms War Bond Show. Having long suffered from phlebitis, he had the first of a series of strokescin 1945. Over the next few years he went on to have a heart attack and to require brain surgery. He couldnât work for a period, but in 1947 he appeared on Broadway in The Big Two at the side of Claire Trevor. He began playing more mature film roles in the late 1940s, notably as a tyrannical symphony conductor in I've Always Loved You (Frank Borzage, 1946) and as Papa in I Remember Mama (George Stevens, 1948) with Irene Dunne.
When his MGM-contract ended in 1952, Frits van Dongen returned to Europe and acted in German films like the drama Hinter Klostermauern/The Unholy Intruders (Harald Reinl, 1952) with Olga Tschechova, the romance Der Träumende Mund/Dreaming Lips (Josef von Baky, 1953) starring Maria Schell, and the circus romance Salto Mortale (Victor Tourjansky, 1953). He did not succeed in making a really successful come-back in Germany, and in 1954-1955 he appeared opposite former Dutch film star Lily Bouwmeester on the Dutch stages in the comedy play Het Hemelbed (The Four-poster) by Jan de Hartog. When he was visiting his birthtown Scheveningen in 1955, he was the victim of a freak accident. While he walked along a building site, a plank fell on his head. A brain injury eventually ruined his speaking ability; and Van Dongen had to retire. He lived the last two decades of his life confined to his comfortable California home. Frits van Dongen died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, USA, in 1975. He was still married to Marianne van Dam. He had divorced his Jewish wife in 1937 but they remarried in 1939 and would stay together in California till his death. In 2002 a biography was published in the Netherlands: Nederlands eerste Hollywood-ster, Hein van der Niet alias Frits van Dongen alias Philip Dorn (The First Dutch Hollywood Star, Hein van der Niet aka Frits van Dongen aka Philip Dorn), by Hans Toonen.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Thomas Staedeli (Cyranos), Henk van Gelder (Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland) (Dutch), Mariska Graveland (De Filmkrant) (Dutch), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Austrian postcard by Kellner-Postkarten, Wien, no. 1464. Photo: CIFA / Prisma / FCC. O.W. Fischer in II bacio del sole/Don Vesuvio/The Kiss of the Sun (Siro Marcellini, 1958).
Austrian actor O.W. Fischer (1915â2004) was one of the most popular and highest-paid actors in German-language film in the 1950s. He played the lead in dozens of light romantic comedies and historical pieces. Unlike countrymen Curd JĂźrgens, Maria Schell and Romy Schneider, he never made it internationally.
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The blue ink on this postcard has started to fade and bleed making it difficult to read. Some stamp collector/spend thrift has steamed off the large stamp on the right hand corner. The postcard seems to be from the 1950s, the bright colours in the postcard remind me of the old American Technicolor films I used to watch as a kid. It reads,
âThe warm seas of the Indian Ocean are driving away the trail vestiges of the UK hostilities. We are staying literally 25 yards from a spectacular beach which really has white sands. In the garden avocados, bananas, paw paw and flame trees of thika grow in abundance. Out of the trees appear baboons, colobus monkeys and bush babies. The girls have been bare back camel riding = uncomfortable by all accounts!
Wish you were here,
L.â
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Mombasa is an island city set in a deep natural harbour on the Indian Ocean and is the major seaport of Kenya. Mombasaâs Kilindini port facility is the best equipped on the East African coast and was the trading center for many centuries. It has a checkered history and has passed through the hands of different ruling empires from the Arabs, Portugese and the British. The exact founding date of the city is unknown but is suggested to be 900 A.D. By the 12th Century it had grown into a prosperous trading town. Mombasa acted as a key port in the complex Indian Ocean trading network.
The Arab influence on Mombasa has been significant. Arab traders were known to sail down around to the Kenya coast from the first century AD onwards resulting in trade flourishing along the coast. The British took control of Mombasa in 1895, after the sultan of Zanzibar leased the town to the British. The British East African Protectorate was established, and promoted European colonization of Kenya lands and resources. The center of its trade lay in spices, gold and ivory trading with countries as far as India and China.
The Mombasa âTusksâ made of aluminum, appear like elephant ivory breeching from the ground to arch over the townâs entrance to spell out the letter âMâ. Ivory was considered to be a valuable commodity. The structure was built in commemoration when Queen Elizabeth visited Mombasa in 1952. The Mombasa tasks were created as a symbolic gesture of embracing the Queen and the British Empire into the town and within its social structure. Nowadays the Mombasa Tusks are a bit neglected. Adverts and fliers are posted on the tusks and there are stories of a beggar making a home in the hollow of the tusks.
The British rule officially ended when Kenya finally gained independence on the 12th December 1963.
Give me an âMâ.
Reference:
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www.insidemombasa.com/about_mombasa/?pid=65&ref=&...
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Nothing on reverse except photographer's details: Lehmanns Postkarten-Atelier, DĂźsseldorf, Graf Adolfstr. 76, Laden.
Individuals in the Freiwilligen Krankenpflege were actually members of the Red Cross and were not considered to be in the army, they were however outfitted by the army with uniforms and equipment.
The distinctive, brown leather pouch attached to his belt is private purchase - or even specially made for this individual. I've never seen another like it.
Die historische Foto-Postkarte vom 24.Mai 1917 zeigt deutsche Marinesoldaten der GroĂkampfschiffe S.M.S. Helgoland und S.M.S WĂźrttemberg.
Die S.M.S. WĂźrttemberg war das vierte Schiff der Bayern-Klasse und gleichzeitig das letzte fĂźr die Kaiserliche Marine gebaute GroĂlinienschiff. Wie auch ihr Schwesterschiff Sachsen wurde die WĂźrttemberg jedoch nicht fertiggestellt.
German postcard by Heinerle Karl-May-Postkarten, no. 46. Photo: CCC / Gloria. Publicity still for Der Schut/The Yellow One (Robert Siodmak, 1964). Caption: "Durch eine List gelingt es dem treuen Diener Halef mit Hilfe von tßrkischen Soldaten seinen geliebten Herrn, Kara Ben Nemsi, aus den Händen des Schut zu befreien, der ihn gefangenhält." (By a ruse and with the help of Turkish soldiers, the faithful servant Halef can free his beloved Lord, Kara Ben Nemsi, from the hands of the Yellow One, who has imprisoned him.)