List of the best Albert Basserman movies: Madame Curie(1943), Loves of Pharaoh(1922), Foreign Correspondent(1940), Knute Rockne, All American(1940), Reunion in France(1942), The Red Shoes(1948), The Moon and Sixpence(1942), Rhapsody in Blue(1945), Escape Me Never(1947), The Private Affairs of Bel Ami(1947), Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet(1940) ... ...
Biography
USA
1943
124 Minutes
Professor Jean Perot
Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon Henry Travers Albert Basserman Robert Walker C. Aubrey Smith
marie curie pierre curie scientist professor husband wife fascinating inspiring moving paris university laboratory scientific experiments marriage honor research partnership discovery love rise
Despite himself, accomplished physicist and avowed bachelor Pierre Curie falls for brilliant student Marie, and together they embark on the discovery of radium.
Drama, History
1922
100 Minutes
Sothis
Emil Jannings Paul Biensfeldt Friedrich Kühne Albert Basserman Harry Liedtke Paul Wegener
War ensures when an Egyptian king's (Emil Jannings) desire for a slave girl (Friedrich Kühne) leads him to reject an arranged marriage with an Ethiopian princess.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1940
119 Minutes
Van Meer
Joel McCrea Laraine Day Herbert Marshall George Sanders Albert Basserman Robert Benchley Edmund Gwenn Edward Ciannelli Harry Davenport Martin Kosleck
reporter editor spy diplomat love interest politician suspenseful gripping thrilling london europe new york city amsterdam espionage conspiracy romance world war ii adventure love pursuit
On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
Biography
USA
1940
98 Minutes
Father Julius Nieuwland
Pat O'Brien Ronald Reagan Gale Page Donald Crisp Albert Basserman John Litel Henry O'Neill Owen Davis Jr. John Qualen Dorothy Tree Kane Richmond
football player george gipp professor coach wife heartwarming indiana university of notre dame football field hospital classroom locker room football illness teamwork knute rockne sports quest rise 1920s
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
War
USA
1942
104 Minutes
General Hugo Schroeder
Joan Crawford John Wayne Philip Dorn Reginald Owen Albert Basserman John Carradine Ann Ayars J. Edward Bromberg Moroni Olsen Henry Daniell Arthur Space
socialite fiancé munitions maker pilot resistance fighter tense patriotic melodramatic paris family home factory countryside nazi collaboration nazi occupation love triangle deception world war ii undercover operations discovery escape
In German-occupied Paris, a Frenchwoman tries to help smuggle a downed RAF pilot into Portugal despite strict surveillance by suspicious Gestapo officers.
Romance, Drama
UK
1948
133 Minutes
Sergei Ratov
Emeric Pressburger Moira Shearer Anton Walbrook Marius Goring Robert Helpmann Leonide Massine Albert Basserman Ludmilla Tcherina Esmond Knight
dancer instructor composer emotional passionate spirited france waterfront stage ambition dance love romance forbidden love rivalry discovery rise sacrifice 1940s
A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
Drama
USA
1942
89 Minutes
George Sanders Herbert Marshall Doris Dudley Steven Geray Eric Blore Albert Basserman
writer artist painter wife friend solemn hedonistic powerful london paris tahiti apartment studio art egoism morality suicide misogyny loyalty rise
Loosely inspired by Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-class life, his family, and his duties to start painting, as he has ... See full summary »
Biography
USA
1945
139 Minutes
Professor Franck
Robert Alda Joan Leslie Alexis Smith Charles Coburn Jacqueline Wells Albert Basserman Morris Carnovsky Herbert Rudley Rosemary DeCamp
composer brother mother professor singer al jolson confident creative moving new york city music store theater music hall los angeles george gershwin music family broadway romance illness
George Gershwin is a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.
Drama
USA
1947
101 Minutes
Professor Heinrich
Errol Flynn Ida Lupino Eleanor Parker Gig Young Reginald Denny Isobel Elsom Albert Basserman Ludwig Stossel Frank Puglia Anthony Caruso
It is Venice, 1900, and Fenella is engaged to composer Caryl Dubrok until she hears that an unmarried woman named Gemma and child is staying with a composer named Dubrok. So the engagement ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1947
112 Minutes
Jacques Rival
George Sanders Angela Lansbury Ann Dvorak Frances Dee John Carradine Susan Douglas Rubes Hugo Haas Marie Wilson Albert Basserman Warren William Katherine Emery
womanizer widow daughter nobleman journalist wife crafty melodramatic hedonistic party france house newsroom social climbing dueling marriage frame-ups exploitation divorce wretched excess
Writer Georges Duroy (George Sanders) is one social-climbing S.O.B. who does most of his climbing over the warm (and cold) bodies of women. He begins with Rachel (Marie Wilson), a hanger-on... See full summary »
Biography
1940
103 Minutes
Dr. Robert Koch
Edward G. Robinson Ruth Gordon Otto Kruger Donald Crisp Maria Ouspenskaya Montagu Love Sig Ruman Donald Meek Henry O'Neill Albert Basserman Edward Norris
doctor scientist colleague wife fascinating inspiring powerful egypt germany laboratory medicine syphilis tuberculosis scientific experiments diptheria discovery rise rescue sacrifice 1880s
The story of the renowned bacteriologist whose years of research yielded such medical triumphs as a cure for syphilis.