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Ich Laß' Mir Meinen Körper Schwarz Bepinseln by Willy Fritsch

Artist Biography For Willy Fritsch

Willy Fritsch 27 January 1901 – 13 July 1973 Was A German Theater And Film Actor A Popular Leading Man And Character Actor From The Silent-Film Era To The Early 1960s. He Was Born Wilhelm Egon Fritz Fritsch The Son Of A Factory Owner In Kattowitz Present-Day Katowice In The Prussian Province Of Silesia. After The Bankruptcy Of His Father In 1912 The Family Moved To Berlin Where Fritsch Sr. Worked As An Employee Of The Siemens-Schuckert Company. Young Willy Originally Planned An Apprenticeship As A Mechanic But Soon Resorted To The Occupation As An Extra At The Großes Schauspielhaus Theatre. From 1919 He Attended Max Reinhardt's Drama School At The Deutsches Theater Where He Debuted With Small Roles And Made His Feature Debut In Films As A Supporting Player In 1921's Miß Venus. Fritsch Remained A Popular Juvenile Figure In Films And The Theater But His Real Success Came After Being Paired With Lilian Harvey In 1928 When They Appeared Regularly Together In UFA Movies Like Der Kongreß Tanzt Congress Dances By Erik Charell Released Every Year Thereafter Until Harvey's Emigration In 1939. Though He Had Joined The NSDAP Fritsch Tried To Avoid Getting Involved In Nazi Propaganda Except For His Appearance In The 1944 Aviator Movie Junge Adler Which Earned Him An Entry On Goebbels' Gottbegnadeten List And Managed To Survive The Hitler Era Without Any Loss Of Prestige. He Continued To Appear On Stage And In Movies Like Wenn Der Weiße Flieder Wieder Blüht When The White Lilacs Bloom Again Side By Side With Young Romy Schneider His Final Film Was 1964's I Learned It From Father Das Hab' Ich Von Papa Gelernt Directed By Axel Von Ambesser In Which He Performed Together With His Son Actor Thomas Fritsch.

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