Date of birth: 1898-03-06
Place of birth: München, Germany
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Therese Gift

Therese Giehse (6 March 1898 – 3 March 1975), born Therese Gift, was a distinguished German actress. Born in Munich to German-Jewish parents, she first appeared on the stage in 1920. She became a major star on stage, in films, and in political cabaret. In the late 1920s through 1933, she was a leading actress at the famous Munich Kammerspiele.

1958-07-07
A new student, Manuela, enters a strict girls' boarding school after her mother’s death, where she f

1956-03-07
10-year-old Rosmarin von Stetten lives with his widowed father Robert in the big city. During the ho

1975-09-24
There is a global civil war between men and women. A teenage girl tries to escape this reality and a

1974-01-30
In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War

1945-05-26
Escaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American and a British soldier set out for the Sw

1964-11-05

1942-08-28
In Bern above Junkerngasse 54 the caretaker has died - the old Hutzli. On the day on which he was bu

1955-03-04
As Germany's fortunes in the latter part of World War II wane, several young boys, in their enthusia

1952-02-29
Directed by Harald Braun and told from the perspective of Bertha von Suttner, the first female to re

1932-03-21
Peter Voss, Thief of Millions is a 1932 German comedy crime film directed by Ewald André Dupont and
1969-06-06

1952-10-17
A widowed father advertises for a new maid, but his children secretly seek a woman to be his new wif

1932-09-06
A story of friendship, love, betrayal and jealousy, which the locomotive driver Karl and his coalman

1942-02-05
The daughter of a traveling circus director falls in love with a young farmer and finds herself in a

1940-11-30
While on a longer business trip, a wannabe poet urges his beautiful but more simple wife to answer h
1955-11-04
Ten years ago, at the end of WW2, 7-year-old Beate was separated from her parents while fleeing. A w

1958-08-04
1953-10-01
Everything seems perfect in the lives of Andreas and Garda. They have a happy marriage and up-and-co
1963-04-02
Wassa Schelesnowa, a manipulative matriarch who will stop at nothing to keep her business afloat and
1965-03-29

1932-08-08

1931-05-04
Musical about a girl typist who leaves Berlin for Venice after winning a contest. A rich bachelor pr

1960-05-02

1957-10-18
Der 10. Mai (The Tenth of May) was the date in 1940 that Hitler invaded the Low Countries: Belgium,

1959-10-01
The bizarre story of a play's development at Munich's Kammerspiele theatre.
1964-02-16
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1933-05-14
Film by Seitz.
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1969-11-23

1933-10-13
In this French set comedy, five million francs change hands one weekend between a man pretending to

1932-08-18
Bohemia in the 19th century, stage-coach driver Hans loves the mayor's daughter Marie, but she is pr

1947-03-14
An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride o

1948-01-22
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w