Paul Godwin Tanz-Orchester mit deutschem Refraingesang: Leo Monosson - Du hast mir heimlich die Liebe ins Haus gebracht (You Secretly Brought Love Into My Life) Foxtrot from the film „Ihre Hoheit befiehlt" (Her Highness Commands) (Heymann -- Gilbert), Grammophon 1931 (Germany)
NOTE: Here, performs again our reliable Weimar Republic duo: Paul Goldwin's dance band with the vocal chorus by Leo Monosson, who is advertised as "der Sänger mit den zehn Sprachen" (A singer with ten languages). This hot foxtrot was the musical hit of 1931, preceeded by the huge success of the comedy film "Ihre Hoheit befiehlt" (Her Highness Commands) with roles of Willy Fritsch and Käthe von Nagy - two silver-screen favorites of the German audience of the 1930s. What's funny, neither of these two was born in Germany.
Willy Fritsch -- graduate of Max Reinhardt's drama school and one of the most popular German actors of all times - was born in Katowice, Poland (Silesian region) as a son of the factory owner, who, after his bankrupcy gave up business in Poland and went to Berlin in 1912.
Käthe von Nagy was a descendant of Hungarian aristocratic family in Budapest, who in her teen age was sent to a catholic high school in Vienna, to be ready for a good marriage. However, she took in secret drama lessons and in 1926 she travelled to Berlin, where the Hungarian film director Alexander Korda offered her a role in the 1927 comedy film "Männer von der Ehe". She had to wait three more years for her great success, which was a musical comedy "Bomben auf Monte Carlo" (1930). It opened her way to many leading roles in Germany and in France during the 1930s and in the years of the Third Reich regime -- when she withdrew from admitting roles in nazi movie productions - it benefitted her modeling career. During the Second World War, Nagy virtually retired from the acting industry, appearing in only one French movie, Mahlia la Métisse. Because of her notability due to her famous and hugely popular postcards, she was, in 1940, approached by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, who asked her to be the face and body for sex dolls provided to German soldiers as a way to combat syphilis at the front. Naturally, he didn't have to wait long for her refusal.
At the end: two more Polish aspects must be added to this presentation. Paul Godwin - one of the best dance band leaders in Berlin of the Weimar Republic period, was born in Sosnowiec, Poland and he received education in the class of violin at the Warsaw Conservatory. Leo Monosson -- the "singer with ten languages" - was of the Polish-Russian/Jewish descendency. He spoke fluent Polish and in the early 1930s he performed in Warsaw, having also recorded in Polish a series of sides for Lonora-Electro label.
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