Paul Martin (director)
Paul Martin ( born February 8, 1899 in Maiolana, today Hungary, † January 23, 1967 in West Berlin) was a Hungarian director of filmed entertainment, especially music films and film operettas.
Life and work
Paul Martin took after high school from 1916 to 1918 as an imperial officer in the First World War in part. He studied medicine and became provisor in a pharmacy.
For the film, he came as an actor in silent films. In the early 1930s he worked in Berlin as an assistant director on such films as The Burning Heart ( 1929), The Congress Dances (1931 ) and bombs on Monte Carlo ( 1931). In 1931, he led, together with Hans Hinrich for the first time even directed the film The winner Hans Albers. In his next work A blond dream he was the sole director for the first time. The overwhelming success of this musical comedy with Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch earned him an invitation to Hollywood.
There he received an engagement at 20th Century Fox, but his film Orient Express became a flop. Martin returned in 1935 to Germany. At the instigation of Lilian Harvey, he was again a contract with Ufa With luck Children ( 1936), he landed again an outstanding success. Until 1939 he mainly worked together with Lilian Harvey. Included most of his films, which in this time Seven slaps (1937 ), Jenny and the gentleman in evening dress (1941 ) and Maske in Blau (1942 ), played in the revue and operetta milieu. Martin was it mostly involved as a co-writer. Not for performance came Prussian Love Story ( 1938) because of the participation of the Czech actress Lída Baarová and her former affair with Joseph Goebbels.
After 1945, Paul Martin staged mainly pop movies to Caterina Valente and Peter Alexander and other comedies. Most recently he worked also for television.
From 1931 to 1938 he was the life companion of Lilian Harvey, with whom he lived in a joint estate in Hungary. As Lilian Harvey in 1938 learned of his affair with the actress Frauke Lauterbach, she separated from him. 1939 married Martin Frauke Lauterbach, who cooperated from then on his films as a dialogue director.
His tomb in the forest cemetery Dahlem was repealed.