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Production
  
Universum Film AG

Director
  
Willi Wolff

Genres
  
Silent film, Comedy

Country
  
Germany

Heads Up, Charley Heads Up Charley Wikipedia

Language
  
Silent German intertitles

Writer
  
Ludwig Wolff
,
Robert Liebmann

Release date
  
18 March 1927

Cinematography
  
Axel Graatkjaer, Georg Krause

Cast
  
Marlene Dietrich
,
Ellen Richter
,
Anton Pointner
,
Michael Bohnen
,
Max Gulstorff

Similar movies
  
Marlene Dietrich appears in Heads Up - Charley and The Woman One Longs for

Heads Up, Charley (German: Kopf hoch, Charly!) is a 1927 German silent comedy film directed by Willi Wolff and starring Ellen Richter, Anton Pointner, and Michael Bohnen. Marlene Dietrich appears in a supporting role.

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Production

The film is based on a novel by Ludwig Wolff with location shooting done in Paris, Hamburg and New York. Other scenes were shot at Berlin's EFA Studios. The film premiered on 18 March 1927 at the UFA-Theatre Kurfürstendamm in Berlin and was a box office success.

Richter's heirs later agreed to withhold the film from exhibition during Dietrich's lifetime.

Cast

  • Ellen Richter - Charlotte Ditmar
  • Anton Pointner - Frank Ditmar
  • Michael Bohnen - John Jacob Bunjes
  • Max Gülstorff - Harry Mosenheim
  • Margaret Quimby - Margie Quinn
  • George De Carlton - Rufus Quinn
  • Angelo Ferrari - Marquis d'Ormesson
  • Robert Scholz - Herzog von Sanzedilla
  • Nikolai Malikoff - Prince Platonoff
  • Toni Tetzlaff - Fr. Zangenberg
  • Marlene Dietrich - Edmée Marchand
  • Blandine Ebinger - Näherin
  • Albert Paulig - Bunjes' Diener
  • References

    Heads Up, Charley Wikipedia
    Heads Up, Charley IMDb