Hanns Kräly
Hanns Kräly; in the U.S. Hans Kraly ( born June 16, 1884 as Jean Kräly in Hamburg, † November 10, 1950 in Los Angeles ) was a German actor and screenwriter. He worked from 1915 to 1929 in 30 films together with director Ernst Lubitsch.
The early years as an actor
Jean Kräly began his stage career as an actor in 1903 in Stendal. In September 1904 he went to the East Prussian Elbing in 1905 to Magdeburg. Since 1906 working as Hanns Kräly, he played in Guben ( season 1906/ 07), Kaiserslautern ( season 1907/ 08) and as a singer and actor at the Berlin House of Studies ( season 1909/10 ).
In the capital, he began with the end of his stage work in 1910 his career as a film actor ( in The jaunty Tyrolean ). He initially worked primarily as a dramaturge for the film producer Paul Davidson and the production company headed by him PAGU. Among his most important tasks was 1912-1914 the revision of the scripts of the director Urban Gad, as assessments were based on the films produced by the PAGU with Asta Nielsen: The children of the General, The Filmprimadonna, angels, Fire and White Roses. In Gad Comedy angels he played also the tutor.
Breakthrough as a writer
1913 Kräly learned during filming Ernst Lubitsch know; were both in the same year at Carl Wilhelms The company marries before the camera. Out for Lubitsch's directorial debut supervisor ice delivered Kräly 1915 for the first time its own script. As a staff writer and actor of the PAGU he worked from Shoe Palace Pinkus (1916 ) firmly together with Ernst Lubitsch. Among the highlights of her work, the comedy- satire heard about American nouveau riche The Oyster Princess (1919). Kräly processed exotic and historical subjects and wrote the lascivious temptresses roles for the Polish actress Pola Negri, who scored with The Eyes of the Mummy Ma, Carmen (both 1918), Madame Dubarry (1919) and Sumurun (1920 ) international attention.
At the invitation of Mary Pickford Ernst Lubitsch came in late 1922 in the United States. In July 1923 he Hanns Kräly followed. With Rosita (1923 ) they should help Pickford, get rid of her child-woman image. Pickford was disappointed with the result, but Lubitsch and Kräly ( from now on, mostly as Hans Kraly ) continued their work for the newly formed MGM. After Forbidden Paradise (1924 ) and Old Heidelberg ( 1927) was her style as Lubitsch Touch - Krälys contribution barely mentioned, although his screenplays for non Lubitsch films like The Eagle (1925 ) with Rudolph Valentino in the lead role, or those working for the director Sidney Franklin are imbued with the same sense of humor. Lubitsch's last silent film Eternal Love (1929 ) marks the end of cooperation. In the same year Kräly wrote the screenplays for two films with Greta Garbo. In 1931 he left MGM.
From 1933 to 1942 Hanns Kräly worked for several film companies. 100 Men and a Girl (1937 ) was a successful film, but his career ended with the story of a cheap horror movie. His last years Kräly earned his living as a janitor in Los Angeles.
Awards
Hanns Kräly received an Oscar in 1930 for The Patriot ( Eng.: The Patriot). The Last of Mrs. Cheyney For he also was nominated for the Academy Awards in 1930 (April), One Hundred Men and a Girl ( Eng.: 100 men and a girl ) in 1938 earned him an Oscar nomination.