The Little Napoleon

The Little Napoleon
Directed by	Georg Jacoby
Written by	Robert Liebmann Georg Jacoby
Starring	Egon von Hagen Paul Heidemann Harry Liedtke Jakob Tiedtke
Cinematography	Max Schneider Emil Schünemann Walter von Gudenberg
Production company	European Film Alliance
Release dates	29 November 1923
Country	Germany
Language	Silent German intertitles

The Little Napoleon (German: Der kleine Napoleon) is a 1923 German silent historical comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Egon von Hagen, Paul Heidemann and Harry Liedtke. It depicts the life and amorous adventures of Jérôme Bonaparte, the younger brother of Napoleon, who installed him as King of Westphalia.

The film is today best known for the small role played by Marlene Dietrich as Kathrin, a lady's maid. Her brief appearance was filmed over several days during the summer of 1922.^[1] It marked Dietrich's film debut, though she was later unhappy with her early silent films.^[2] She was cast after impressing the director, Georg Jacoby, during a meeting arranged for them. Dietrich played gradually more substantial roles during the rest of the decade until her breakthrough film The Blue Angel (1930).

The film was made by the European Film Alliance, a failed attempt by the American firm Paramount to establish a production base in the lucrative German market.^[3] The EFA was wound up shortly after the film's completion, which delayed its release.^[4] It finally premièred on 29 November 1923 at the Marmorhaus in Berlin.^[5]

Cast

Paul Heidemann as Jérôme Bonaparte
Egon von Hagen as Napoleon Bonaparte
Harry Liedtke as George von Melsungen
Jakob Tiedtke as Jeremias von Katzenellenbogen
Wilhelm Bendow as Jerômes Diener
Paul Biensfeldt as Feldmarchall
Marquisette Bosky as Primaballerina
Antonia Dietrich as Charlotte
Marlene Dietrich as Kathrin
Kurt Fuß as Leiter des königlichen Baletts
Alice Hechy as Annemarie
Loni Nest as Lieselotte
Kurt Vespermann as Florian Wunderlich
Loni Pyrmont

References

↑ Spoto p.31
↑ Bach p.58-59
↑ Prawer p.5
↑ Bach p.58
↑ Bach p.491

Bibliography

Bach, Steven. Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend. University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.
Spoto, Donald. Blue Angel: The Life of Marlene Dietrich. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.

External links

The Little Napoleon at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Georg Jacoby

Vendetta (1919)
The Little Napoleon (1923)
Quo Vadis (1924)
Does a Woman Have to Become a Mother? (1924)
Accommodations for Marriage (1926)
The Ride in the Sun (1926)
The Fake (1927)
The Physician (1928)
Perjury (1929)
Circumstantial Evidence (1929)
Women on the Edge (1929)
Pension Schöller (1930)
Josef the Chaste (1930)
Gold on the Street (1930)
Storm in a Water Glass (1931)
Melody of Love (1932)
An Evening Visit (1934)
The Last Waltz (1934)
The Beggar Student (1936)
Gasparone (1937)
A Night in May (1938)
The Curtain Falls (1939)
Kora Terry (1940)
Women Are Better Diplomats (1941)
The Woman of My Dreams (1944)
Child of the Danube (1950)
Sensation in San Remo (1951)
Pension Schöller (1952)
The Divorcée (1953)
Hello, My Name is Cox (1955)
Three Days Confined to Barracks (1955)
At the Green Cockatoo by Night (1957)
The Night Before the Premiere (1959)
Pension Schöller (1960)
Bombs on Monte Carlo (1960)

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