Hans Schumm
Hans Josef Schumm | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 2, 1896 Hollywood film actor |
| Years active | 1925–1970 |
| Employer(s) | (2) Charles Chaplin (2)Columbia (13) De Grunwald (2) MGM (9) Monogram (2) Paramount (8) Arnold Pressburger (1) 1st Motion Picture Unit (US Army AF) (1)
Republic (3) Twentieth Century Fox (8)Universal (6) Revue (Universal) (3) Warner Bros. (13) Ziv Television (1) |
| Agent | Paul Kohner Agency |
| Style | Character actor |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) |
Hans Josef Schumm (né Johann Josef Eugen Schumm; 2 April 1896 Stuttgart – 2 February 1990 Los Angeles) was a German-born-turned-American actor, notably, a prolific and critically acclaimed Hollywood screen character actor[3][4][5][6] who appeared in some 95 films – including a co-starring villainous role in a 12-episode serial. He also appeared in 15 TV productions and several stage productions, including one on Broadway. Except for about ten cinema productions, Schumm's body of work in cinema and television was filmed in the United States. On stage and in film, he is credited as Hans Josef Schumm or simply Hans Schumm; but in seven films, he is credited under the pseudonym André Pola — three in 1948, one in 1949, one in 1954, and one 1956.[a] In his private life, he was known as Joseph Schumm and Johann J.E. Schumm.
Career
Schumm was born April 2, 1896, in
Stuttgart, Germany. Schumm served in the German Army during World War I
.
While living in Stuttgart, Schumm first visited New York as a merchant at age 27, arriving January 1, 1924. There are at least two attributions for his acting debut, one in 1925 in Meissen, Germany, and one around 1925 in Stuttgart, performing in The Merchant of Venice with Staatstheater Stuttgart. Schumm visited New York again, arriving November 30, 1926, and performed with a German stock company in Milwaukee and Chicago.
Permanent move to New York
Schumm returned a third time to New York, arriving August 26, 1929, to work in German-language theater as a permanent United States resident.[7][3][8]
The timing of Schumm's 1929 arrival was 3 years, 5 months before Hitler's seizure of power on January 30, 1933. Germany had been in the throes of severe economic duress from post World War I, which included hyperinflation that began around 1922. His arrival was also sixty-four days after the Great Crash of 1929 on Wall Street. The Great Depression had struck Germany hard in late 1929, and sunk to its trough in early 1932.
Shortly after arriving, until about 1931, Schumm lived at 160 Wadsworth Avenue, Washington Heights, a neighborhood in the most northern part of Manhattan, New York.
Move to Hollywood
By 1931, Schumm was living in
Pasadena Community Playhouse. Schumm debuted in cinema in 1933 as an uncredited bit part actor in The Song of Songs, starring Marlene Dietrich
.
Die Reichskulturkammer of 1933
Back in Germany, in 1933, by decree of
Hollywood cinema community, particularly German expatriate groups, to help German Jewish exiled actors acclimate in American cinema. In Los Angeles, in 1939, Schumm became one of 60 or more initial members who formed The Continental Players, a short-lived theater company spearheaded by film executives in support of exiled Jewish thespians from Germany and Austria
.
World War II era
Schumm's film roles were mostly minor and, during
SS. Schumm's paternal and maternal relatives were German citizens and resided there. Schumm became a U.S. naturalized citizen February 14, 1941. When Schumm was drafted under the U.S. Selective Service System, he became a conscientious objector
.
In a 2015 retrospective review of Schumm's role as "The Mask" from the 1942 serial SS.[9]
Schumm played a character role in the 1943 film, Hangmen. The film was one of the few attempts by German immigrants in the United States to make a film against the Hitler regime.[10][11]
Post World War II
After World War II, Schumm performed a role in a 1952-1953 Broadway play, A Red Rainbow.
Germany
Following a trend beginning around 1953 for American film producers to shoot in
West Germany
for work, including roles in:
- The Trapp Family
- The Third Sex (Das dritte Geschlecht) was filmed in Germany in 1957 and released in its original edition in Vienna[b]
- Tales of the Vikings (39 episodes), produced in Munich by Kirk Douglas, Schumm played Thorvald in two episodes
- Question 7
- The Bashful Elephant
- Come Fly with Me
- Captain Sindbad, shot at Bavaria Film Studios
- The Waltz King (1963)
- Before Winter Comes
- Komm nach Wien, ich zeig dir was! (Come to Vienna, I'll Show You Something!)
The Third Sex was produced in West Germany. It was filmed from May 8 to June 3, 1957, and premiered in Vienna on August 29, 1957, in several cinemas. In Germany, the film was first seen in Stuttgart at the Gloria-Palast[c] on October 31, 1957.[13] Schumm played a pediatric psychologist. The film addressed homosexuality, which was controversial at the time. The underlying message, conversion therapy, is on the wrong side of science. Directed by Veit Harlan, the aim was to liberalize public views against homosexuality, and in particular, influence reform of West German laws against it. The film – specifically the version censored by German authorities under Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code – had the opposite effect.[b]
Hollywood in the 1960s
Schumm returned to Hollywood and finished his acting career in 1970.
After shooting Das dritte Geschlecht, Schumm returned to Hollywood and finished his acting career in 1970.
Representation and management
Schumm was represented by Paul Kohner.
Family and marriages
Birth
Schumm was born April 2, 1896, in
Stuttgart, Germany, to Friedrich Schumm (1855–1904) and Petronella (aka Petrauella) Jehle (maiden, aka Yehle aka Fehle;[d] 1855–1936). He had three siblings – two brothers and a sister. His older brother, Gustav "Gustel" Schumm (de) (1888–1966) had been a star rugby and soccer player, and in 1912, for one year, had served as president of VfB Stuttgart and is credited for developing youth soccer in Germany, before and after World War I
.
First marriage
Schumm first married – on July 29, 1931, in
Hans Schumm was Agnes' second of three husbands.Second marriage
Schumm then married – on September 23, 1935, in
Los Angeles County.[i] Their divorced became final on December 8, 1944. Gloria and Hans then remarried August 21, 1947, after Gloria realized that she was pregnant from, she claimed, actor Wallace Beery, which Beery denied.[ii] Gloria gave birth on February 7, 1948, to Johan Richard Wallace Schumm. On February 13, 1948, Gloria Schumm, on behalf of Johan Schumm, as plaintiff, filed a paternity suit against Beery, who, through his lawyer, Norman Ronald Tyre (1910–2002) – Gang
, Tyre, Ramer & Brown – initially offered $6,000 as a settlement, but denied being the father.
Gloria Schumm, again, filed for divorced from Hans Schumm on April 2, 1953, in
Los Angeles County
.
United States citizenship
Schumm applied to become a naturalized citizen of the United States on November 13, 1940, in Los Angeles, and was admitted as a citizen February 14, 1941. The two affiants attesting to Schumm's identity and residency were Stuttgart-born Alfred Theodor Hummel (1876–1946) and John Harrison Rodney Pain (1884–1966), a British-born American gardner and woodwork artisan.[16] Schumm was approximately 6 feet (1.8 m) tall, weighed approximately 198 pounds (90 kg), and had brown hair and brown eyes — according to his 1942 U.S. draft registration card.[17]
Death
Schumm died at 93 years and 10 months on February 2, 1990. He was dead on arrival at
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.[9]
Links to stills
- Three stills from "The Primitive Touch," a TV episode from The Web; CBS/Getty Images, May 14, 1954 New York, New York
- Joe Maross, Hans Josef Schumm, and Elizabeth Fraser:
- Two images: April 17, 1952, Johann Schumm – 4 years (child); Gloria Schumm (mother);
Profession affiliations
- Screen Actors Guild, member
- Screen Extras Guild (between 1946 and 1992, background actors in film and television were largely represented by the Screen Extras Guild. SEG was disbanded on 1 June 1992 and transferred its jurisdiction to SAG)
- Edwin Forrest Society, The Actors Fund, member (estate benefactor)
Selected cinematic and TV clips
- Anders als du und ich (§ 175)
- Psychologist (Hans Schumm), Christa Teichmann, Klaus' mother (Paula Wessely), Werner Teichmann, Klaus' father (Paul Dahlke)
- Scene: "Cure for Homosexuality," Klause's parents with the psychologist (German censored version with English subtitles)
- Anton Duval (Houseley Stevenson), Willem (Hans Schumm as Andre Pola), Pepe (Tony Martin)
- Scene
- Spy Smasher on YouTube (all 12 chapters)
Filmography
| Year | Film | Director | Role | Production Co. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | Song of Songs, The | Rouben Mamoulian | Man at Berlin railway station (uncredited)
|
Paramount |
| 1934 | The Countess of Monte Cristo | Karl Freund | Police detective (uncredited) | Universal |
| 1934 | One Night of Love | Victor Schertzinger | Policeman (uncredited) | Columbia |
| 1935 | Folies Bergère de Paris | Roy Del Ruth | Bartender (uncredited) | 20th Century Pictures
|
| 1936 | Invisible Ray, The | Lambert Hillyer | Clinic valet (uncredited) | Universal |
| 1936 | Under Two Flags | Frank Lloyd | Cast member (uncredited) | 20th Century Pictures
|
| 1936 | Revolt of the Zombies | Victor Hugo Halperin
|
German Soldier (uncredited) | Victor & Edward Halperin Productions
|
| 1937 | Round-Up Time in Texas | Joseph Kane | Dunbar stable man (uncredited) | Republic |
| 1939 | Confessions of a Nazi Spy | Anatole Litvak | Bismarck officer with crew list (uncredited) | Warner Bros. |
| 1939 | Bridal Suite aka Maiden Voyage |
Wilhelm Thiele | Man in shipboard brawl (uncredited) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1939 | Thunder Afloat | George B. Seitz | German sailor looking for wireless | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1939 | Espionage Agent | Lloyd Bacon | Foreign official (uncredited) | Warner Bros. |
| 1939 | Escape, The | Ricardo Cortez | Policeman | Twentieth Century Fox
|
| 1939 | Hitler – Beast of Berlin | Sherman Scott
|
Schaefer | Producers Pictures
|
| 1939 | Scandal Sheet | Nick Grinde | Dorgas | Columbia |
| 1939 | Amazing Mr. Williams, The | Alexander Hall | Pedestrian | Columbia |
| 1940 | Calling Philo Vance | William Clemens | Nazi officer from ship at dock (uncredited) | Warner Bros. |
| 1940 | British Intelligence | Terry O. Morse | German senior officer (uncredited) | Warner Bros. |
| 1940 | Escape to Glory | John Brahm | Submarine commander | Columbia |
| 1940 | Women in War | John H. Auer | German Soldier (uncredited) | Republic |
| 1940 | Four Sons | Archie Mayo | Müller | Twentieth Century Fox
|
| 1940 | Man I Married, The | Irving Pichel | 1st storm trooper (uncredited) | Charles Chaplin Productions
|
| 1940 | Mystery Sea Raider | Edward Dmytryk | Sentry (uncredited) | Paramount |
| 1940 | The Great Dictator | Charles Chaplin
|
Soldier (uncredited) | Charles Chaplin Productions
|
| 1940 | Moon Over Burma | Louis King | Baumgarten | Paramount |
| 1941 | So Ends Our Night | John Cromwell | Kobel | David L. Loew & Albert Lewin |
| 1941 | They Dare Not Love | James Whale | Bruckner (uncredited) | Columbia |
| 1941 | Underground | Vincent Sherman | Heller's aide | Warner Bros. |
| 1941 | Down in San Diego | Robert B. Sinclair (fr) | Müller (uncredited) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1941 | A Yank in the R.A.F. | Henry King | German officer (uncredited) | Twentieth Century Fox
|
| 1942 | Lady Has Plans, The | Sidney Lanfield | 1st German | Paramount |
| 1942 | Underground Agent[18] | Michael Gordon | Hans (uncredited) | Columbia |
| 1942 | Atlantic Convoy | Lew Landers | Commander von Smith | Columbia |
| 1942 | The Devil with Hitler | Gordon Douglas | Gestapo guard (uncredited) | Hal Roach Studios |
| 1942 | Destination Unknown | Ray Taylor | Müller (uncredited) | Universal |
| 1942 | To Be or Not to Be | Ernst Lubitsch | Special Investigations Squad (uncredited) | Romaine Film Corporation |
| 1942 | Invisible Agent | Edwin L. Marin | SS man
|
Frank Lloyd Productions
|
| 1942 | Foreign Agent | William Beaudine | Dr. Werner | Monogram Pictures |
| 1942 | Navy Comes Through, The | A. Edward Sutherland | U-51 submarine captain recognizing Kroner (uncredited) | RKO Radio Pictures
|
| 1942 | Once Upon a Honeymoon | Leo McCarey James Anderson (asst.) |
Storm trooper | RKO Radio Pictures
|
| 1942 | Spy Smasher (3:33:46) (12-episode movie serial)
|
William Witney | The Mask (head of the Nazi spy ring operating from a U-78 submarine) |
Republic |
| 1942 | Pardon My Sarong | Erle C. Kenton | Moss, Tabor's henchman | Mayfair Productions (Jules Levey) |
| 1942 | All Through the Night | Vincent Sherman | Anton | Warner Bros. |
| 1942 | Desperate Journey | Raoul Walsh | Gestapo agent (uncredited) | Warner Bros. |
| 1942 | Berlin Correspondent | Eugene Forde | Gunther | Twentieth Century Fox
|
| 1943 | Sahara | Zoltán Korda
|
Sgt. Krause | Universal |
| 1943 | Strange Death of Adolf Hitler, The | James P. Hogan | Maj. Profe | Universal |
| 1943 | Hitler's Hangman )
|
Douglas Sirk | Müller (Gestapo officer: Heydrich's gunman) (uncredited) |
Angelus Productions (Aimee Semple McPherson) Producers Releasing Corporation |
| 1943 | Mission to Moscow | Michael Curtiz | Uniformed guard | Warner Bros. |
| 1943 | Action in the North Atlantic | Lloyd Bacon | Lieutenant Commander | Warner Bros. |
| 1943 | Around the World (B movie)[19] |
Allan Dwan | Nazi | RKO Radio Pictures
|
| 1943 | Margin for Error (uncredited) | Otto Preminger | Karl Müller (uncredited) | Twentieth Century Fox
|
| 1943 | Moon Is Down, The | Irving Pichel | Capt. Bentick | Twentieth Century Fox
|
| 1943 | Bomber's Moon | Harold D. Schuster
|
German soldier | Twentieth Century Fox
|
| 1943 | Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas | Louis King | Sentry | Twentieth Century Fox
|
| 1943 | Journey into Fear | Norman Foster Orson Welles (uncredited) |
Driver (uncredited) | RKO Radio Pictures
|
| 1943 | Above Suspicion | Richard Thorpe | Guard | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1943 | Assignment in Brittany | Jack Conway | Nazi torturer (uncredited) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1943 | They Got Me Covered | David Butler | Schmidt | Samuel Goldwyn Company
|
| 1943 | This Land is Mine | Jean Renoir | German sergeant who pushes Albert |
RKO Radio Pictures
|
| 1943 | Hangmen Also Die! | Fritz Lang | Sergeant (uncredited) | Arnold Pressburger Films |
| 1944 | Uncertain Glory | Raoul Walsh | Gestapo agent | Warner Bros. |
| 1944 | Up in Arms | Elliott Nugent | Nazi spy in theatre lobby | Samuel Goldwyn Company
|
| 1944 | Passport to Destiny (aka Passport to Adventure) |
Ray McCarey | Miniger, Dietrich's Aide | RKO Radio Pictures
|
| 1944 | Voice in the Wind[20][21][22] | Arthur Ripley | Piesecke | Ripley – Monter Productions |
| 1944 | Resisting Enemy Interrogation | Bernard Vorhaus | German guard (uncredited) | First Motion Picture Unit, Army Air Forces |
| 1945 | Escape in the Desert | Edward Abraham Blatt (1903–1991) | Klaus | Warner Bros. |
| 1945 | Son of Lassie | S. Sylvan Simon | German commander (uncredited) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1946 | Cloak and Dagger | Fritz Lang | German agent | Warner Bros. – United States Pictures |
| 1947 | Golden Earrings | Mitchell Leisen | Policeman | Paramount |
| 1947 | Beginning or the End, The | Norman Taurog | Nazi police officer | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1947 | Desire Me | Jack Conway (uncredited) George Cukor (uncredited) Mervyn LeRoy (uncredited) Victor Saville (uncredited) |
German voice (1 of 3) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1948 | Billie Gets Her Man | Edward Bernds | Surgeon (as Andre Pola) | Columbia |
| 1948 | Smugglers' Cove | William Beaudine | Karl (as Andre Pola) | Monogram Pictures |
| 1948 | Casbah | John Berry | Willem (as Andre Pola) | Marston Productions (Tony Martin) |
| 1949 | Act of Violence | Fred Zinnemann | German voice (1 of 3) (as André Pola) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 1949 | The Lovable Cheat | Richard Oswald | Policeman (as Andre Pola) | Skyline Pictures |
| 1949 | short) )
(video clip |
Edward Bernds | Col. Cluttz (as Andre Pola) | Columbia |
| 1949 | short )
|
Edward Bernds | Dr. Emil Gesundheit (as Andre Pola) | Columbia |
| 1951 | Target Unknown | George Sherman | Road guard | Universal |
| 1951 | I Was a Communist for the FBI | Gordon Douglas | Rader (uncredited) | Warner Bros. |
| 1953 | Stars Are Singing, The | Norman Taurog | Secretary to Ladowski | Paramount |
| 1953 | No Escape | Charles Bennett | Mr. Vladimir Platoff | Matthugh Productions (Matt Freed né Matthew J. Freed; 1909–2003; Hugh MacKenzie) |
| 1954 | The Fire Chaser ( short )
|
Jules White | Dr. Emil Gesundheit (as Andre Pola) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Columbia |
| 1956 | short )
|
Jules White | Col. Klotz (as Andre Pola) | Columbia |
| 1956 | The Trapp Family (in German) | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Petroff | Divina-Film (Ilse Kubaschewski) |
| 1957 | ) (based on a script by Felix Lützkendorf; 1906–1990) |
Veit Harlan | (the scene with the youth psychologist in the original uncut version was played by another actor, uncredited) | Helmuth Volmer Production (de) Arca-Filmproduktion GmbH (Gero Wecker) |
| 1957 | Anders als du und ich (§ 175) )
(Different from You and Me) (censored version of Das dritte Geschlecht per FSK) (Premiered 31 October 1957 Stuttgart |
Veit Harlan (Hans Giese (de), scientific advisor) |
Youth psychologist (played by Schumm) |
Helmuth Volmer Production (de) Arca-Filmproduktion GmbH (Gero Wecker) |
| 1959 | Bewildered Youth )
|
Veit Harlan (Frank Winterstein, assistant director, is credited as director on the D-F Distributing Corp. release in America) |
(the scene with the youth psychologist was played by another actor, uncredited, in the English language release) | Arca-Filmproduktion GmbH (Gero Wecker) (U.S. distributor: D-F Distributing Corp.)[f] |
| 1959 | I Aim at the Stars | J. Lee Thompson | Baron von Braun (uncredited) | Morningside Productions / Fama-Film |
| 1961 | Question 7 | J. Lee Thompson | RD-DR Corporation (Louis de Rochemont) Lutheran Film Associates (Robert E. A. Lee) Matthias-Film (de) | |
| 1962 | The Bashful Elephant | Dorrell McGowan (fr) & Stuart McGowan (fr) | Fritz | McGowan International, Inc. (Dorrell (fr) & Stuart McGowan (fr)) (filmed in Austria) |
| 1963 | Come Fly with Me | Henry Levin
|
Viennese gardner (uncredited) | De Grumwald Productions |
| 1963 | Captain Sindbad | Byron Haskin | King Brothers Productions | |
| 1969 | Before Winter Comes | J. Lee Thompson | Camp doctor | Columbia
|
| 1970 | Komm nach Wien, ich zeig dir was! )(Come to Vienna, I'll Show You Something! (in German) |
Rolf Thiele | (uncredited) | Terra-Filmkunst Vienna-Filmproduktion GmbH |
Television
| Series | Season : Episode |
Episode Title | Writer(s) | Director | Role | Original air date | Network | Production Co. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Space Patrol | 1 : 37 | "Photograph of a Traitor" | Norman Jolley (1916–2002) | Dick Darley (1923–2016) | Brewer | August 8, 1951 | ABC | American Broadcasting Company Tower Productions |
| Dick Tracy (fr) (1950–1952) |
2 : 6 2 : 7 |
"Dick Tracy and Pruneface:" Part 1 "Dick Tracy and Pruneface:" Part 2 |
Robert Leslie Bellem (story suggested by) Chester Gould (comic strip characters) William Lively (1907–1973) (story suggested by) William Lively (1907–1973) (teleplay) |
Thomas Carr | October 24, 1951 October 31, 1951 |
P.K. Palmer Herbert Moulton | ||
| The Unexpected (aka Time Square Playhouse) |
"Merry-Go-Round" | Jerome Lawrence Robert E. Lee |
Sobey Martin | June 20, 1952 | Ziv Television Programs | |||
| Chevron Theatre | 1 : 33 | "Mightier Than the Sword" | Arthur Weiss | Richard Irving (1917–1990) | August 29, 1952 | Revue Productions
| ||
Biff Baker, U.S.A.
|
1 : 15 | "Flight to Geneva" | Barry Shipman Fenton Earnshaw (1912–1970) Howard J. Green (1893–1965) Jerome Gary Lawrence Kimble |
Herschel Daugherty John English Richard Irving (1917–1990) |
Rozan | February 53, 1953 | CBS | Revue Productions
|
The Ray Milland Show
|
1 : 5 | "The Faculty Dance" | Joe Connelly Bob Mosher (1915–1972) |
Charles Barton | October 15, 1953 | CBS | Revue Productions
| |
| Kraft Television Theatre | 7 : 25 | "The Cuckoo Clock" | Gerald Savory[23] | German piano teacher[iii] | February 17, 1954 | NBC | J. Walter Thompson | |
| The Web | 4 : 33 | "The Primitive Touch" | Art dealer | May 23, 1954 | CBS | Mark Goodson Bill Todman | ||
| The Phil Silvers Show | 5 : 5 | "A.W.O.L." | Nat Hiken, Terry Ryan, Barry Blitzer | Albert De Caprio (1916–2000) | Janos Varga (Hungarian father of Imre, who is about to marry Martha) |
October 18, 1955 | CBS | CBS
|
Rheingold Theatre
|
5 : 9 | "Rendezvous at Dawn" | Charles Early Joseph Early |
Arthur Crabtree | Sabolek | November 19, 1956 | NBC | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Productions |
| Tales of the Vikings | 1 : 2 1 : 25 |
"The Black Stone" "Blood Sacrifice" |
Robert "Bob" Mitchell (1918–1992) (original story) Sidney Morse (1920–2003) (original story) Robert "Bob" Mitchell (1918–1992) (teleplay) |
George M. Cahan (1919–1991) | Thorvald | September 15, 1959 February 23, 1960 |
United Artists Television (syndicated) | ) |
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
|
10 : 5 10 : 6 |
"The Waltz King" Part I "The Waltz King" Part II |
Maurice Tombragel (fr) (script) Fritz Eckhardt (original story) |
Steve Previn | Ferdinand Dommayer (de) | October 27, 1963 November 3, 1963 |
NBC | Walt Disney Productions |
Stage
| Dates | Play | Writer(s) | Director | Role | Theater |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Around 1925 | The Merchant of Venice | ("Hans Schumm, formerly of the Stuttgart State Theatre Company") | Stuttgart State Theatre Company | ||
| 1926 | (The German Stock Company) | ("Hans Schumm, formerly of the Stuttgart State Theatre Company") | Pabst Theater, Milwaukee Chicago | ||
| November 14, 1930 | Doctor Klaus (comedy) |
Herma Kristof-Stock | Bert Sprotte | Ebell Wilshire Theater Los Angeles Second event of the German Theater Season | |
| Cast: Bert Sprotte (title role), Eva Leoni, Edith Wolf-Kopelson, Conrad Seidemann, Hans Joseph Schumm, Johanna Hagen, Charlotte Foerstel, Kurt Herrnfeld, Costea Mooth, Otto Kottka, Elizabeth Siegel[24] | |||||
| January 7 – 16, 1932 | Berkeley Square (comedy, romance) |
John L. Balderston | Gilmore Brown (1886–1960) |
("Hans Schumm, formerly of the Stuttgart State Theatre Company") | Pasadena Community Playhouse[iv] |
| January 21 – 30, 1932 | Once in a Lifetime | Moss Hart George S. Kaufman |
Gilmore Brown (1886–1960) |
Pasadena Community Playhouse | |
| May 25 – June 12, 1939 | William Tell | Adaptation of Friedrich Schiller's 1804 original (two acts and ten scenes) |
Leopold Jessner | El Capitan Theatre Hollywood The Continental Players | |
| Cast: Friedrich Mellinger; Ernst Deutsch (the dictator); Leo Reuss (aka Lionel Royce) (William Tell); Norbert Schiller (de), great-great-great nephew of the playwright[v] (Baumgarten); Gerhard Schaefer (Arnold von Melchtal); Hans Schumm; Walter O. Stahl (de); Rudolf Steinbock (de); Christiane Grautoff (de) (Ernst Toller's wife) (Hedwig, Tell's wife); Eva Hyde (aka Heyde; née Heymann; 1910–1955)[g] (Armgard); Hermine Sterler (Gertrude Stauffacher); Alexander Granach (Stauffacher); Bobby Moya (young Tell).
| |||||
| Leopold Jessner, director; Ralph Freed, text; Rudi Feld, art director (costumes and set design); Ernst Toch, music score; Ingolf Dahl, conductor;[25][26] Simon Mitchneck, Phd (1893–1986), English and voice coach (linguist). | |||||
| January 31, 1949 | Totentanz (Dance of Death) |
August Strindberg | Kurt | New Studio Theater 1743 North New Hampshire Boulevard Los Angeles (capacity 205) | |
| Cast included Walter Wicclair (de) as the captain and Efriede Borodin (de) as Alice.[27] | |||||
| September 22, 23, 24, 1949 | Faust (in German) |
Goethe | Walter Wicclair (de) | Assistant Director | University of Southern California Department of German |
| Cast included Norbert Schiller (de) as Faust, Walter Wicclair (de) as Mephistopheles, Laura McCann (de) as Gretchen, Else Baeck-Neft (de) as Martha, and Franz Roeh as Wagner, Marcel Lerner as the student.[28] Others in the cast included Otto Waldis (de), Sigurd Bernau, L.H. Lasch, and Renee Henning. | |||||
| March 16, 1949 (premier) |
Intimitaeten (Private Lives) |
Noël Coward | Bennet Chase | Coronet Theater 366 North La Cienega Boulevard Los Angeles (capacity 275) (guest performances were also give in San Francisco with the same cast) | |
| Kitty Mattern (de) playing Helen Prynne co-starred with Hans Schumm playing Bennet Chase. In a love scene, Mattern and Schumm reportedly drove realism to an intensity that was unusual for the era. Others in the cast included Norbert J. Kobler playing Victor Prynne, Inga Grothe playing Sybile Chase[27][29] | |||||
| November 1949 source | Rape of the Sabine Women )
|
Paul and Franz Schönthan (de) | Coronet Theater | ||
| Cast included Else Baeck-Neft (de) as Rosa, Efriede Borodin (de) as Marianne, Walter Wicclair (de) as Professor Gallwitz, and Hans Schumm as Dr. Neumeister.[27] | |||||
| June 1951 | The Swallow's Nest[30][31][32] | Zoë Akins
|
Robert Milton | Pasadena Community Playhouse | |
| Cast included Billie Burke, Marjorie Steele (1930–1988) (Mrs. Huntington Hartford in her acting debut), Onslow Stevens, George Phelps, Lumsden Hare, Roy Gordon (1884–1972). | |||||
| May 5 – 23, 1952 (premiere) |
The Red Rainbow | Myron C. Fagan
|
Myron C. Fagan
|
Boris Sarno, the producer (a thick accented nemesis of the character J. Kerrigan Kane) |
Beaux Arts Theater Westlake West 8th Street and Beacon Avenue |
| Opened January 14, 1953 | The Road to Rome | Robert E. Sherwood (rewritten by Preston Sturges) |
Eddie Firestone | The Players (Sturges's dinner theater in Hollywood) | |
| Cast: Carolyn Jones (Amytis, Grecian wife of the Roman dictator), Robin Hughes (Hannibal), Richard Hale (Hasdrubal), Mike Freeman (Maharbal), Clayton Cole (Hannibal's brother), Nico Lek (1901–1983) (Fabius, the dictator), Margaret Brewster (Fabius' mother), Pat Golden (the sergeant), Keith McConnell (Scripio), Taylor Flanikan (slave), Francesca Leland (slave) | |||||
| September 14 – 26, 1953 | The Red Rainbow | Myron C. Fagan
|
Myron C. Fagan
|
Boris Sarno, the producer | Royal Theatre Broadway New York |
| The play is a murder-mystery involving the infiltration of communism in American life (see Myron C. Fagan (president). His son, executive producer of the play, Bruce Vincent Fagan (1918–2001) was the organization's secretary.[vi][33] Schumm's 1953 affiliation with Fagan notwithstanding, it is not known whether he seriously shared Fagan's views given that he went on to work with actors, directors, and producers who Fagan later infamously named before a stage audience, and on radio, 300 Hollywood stars that he claimed were communists. (FBI file )
| |||||
Radio
| Dates | Play | Writer(s) | Director | Role | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Radio Play: "Hier geschieht ja doch nichts" (adaptation from "Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe," from Twice-Told Tales) |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | Paul Land (host at Radio Stuttgart, Süddeutscher Rundfunk, since the late 1930s) |
Neger Josua | Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) (Stuttgart) |
| Cast: Karin Schlemmer (de) (Helen Longfield), Thomas Flemming (Dominic Pike), Albert Florath (Thompson), Willi Reichmann (Babbler), Kurt Haars (Bullock), Walter Thurau (Davies), Trude Tandar (Mrs. Luly), Hans Mahnke (de) (Der hinkende Sam), Hans Josef Schumm (Josua) | |||||
Notes and references
General resources
- Marta Mierendorff papers 0214 "Schumm, Hans," Box 12, Folder 22, OCLC 709903745
- Marta Mierendorff, PhD — a German-born scholar who, in the latter 1960s, became a faculty member at USC — was a pioneer in the study of exiles. Schumm was not an exile, but, the papers include information on Schumm
- Paul Kohner Agency records, Goose Step, Oscars collections, Margaret Herrick Library
- Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch; Theatergeschichtliches Jahr- und Adressbuch,
- "Arbeitsausschüsse der Fachschaft Bühne," Die Bühne (Redakteur: Dr. Hans Knudsen), 2 Jahrgang, heft 1, 1. Januar 1936, seit 22; OCLC 1019938629
- O – Obmann; St – Obmann Stellvertreter; S – Schriftführer; K – Kassenwart; Vd – Vertrauens -dame; B – Beisitzer; FV – Fachgruppenvertreter.
- Bamberg Stadttheater: Walter Storm (O), Fritz Milter (St), Hans Schumm (S), Karl Frank (K), Ria Mardeck (Vd).
- Koegel, John, PhD (born 1956) (2009). Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840-1940. .
- See inline citation 21 for Chapter 5 on p. 504. → Ulrich, Paul Stanley (1997). Biographisches Verzeichnis für Theater, Tanz und Musik [Biographical Index for Theater, Dance and Music: Directory of German-Language Reference Works and Yearbooks]. .
- Vol. 1: A–L
- Vol. 2: M-Z
Notes
- ^ Disambiguation: Andre Pola (surname also spelled as Polah) (1892–1949) was a Dutch-born violinist who immigrated to America with his Belgian teacher, Eugène Ysaÿe. After concertizing for several years, Polah eventually became head of the violin department at Syracuse University in the late 1920s, conducting the university orchestra as well.
- ^ anti-Semitic. Moreover, the underlying messages of the film (about homosexuality), were criticized then by major media in the U.S., and over sixty-five years since its release in North America, has been uniformly debunked. It is not known why the scene with Schumm, as psychologist, was replaced with another actor in the English language version; and it is not known whether Schumm – by participating in the German language version – was sympathetic to the director or the film's message.
- ^ The Stuttgart Gloria-Palast was a single-screen movie theater that opened August 2, 1956.
- transliterationsinclude:
- Eahle
- Eali
- Eallie
- Ealy
- Ehle
- Ehly
- Eiley
- Eley
- Elley
- Ely
- Ihle
- Ihli
- Ihlie
- Illi
- Jehle
- Ohley
- Uhl
- Uhle
- Yaley
- Yealy
- Yehl
- Yehle
- Yehley
- Yhle
- Yhley
- Yhly
- ^ Disambiguation: Gloria Whitney – the stage name for Gloria Schumm – is not the same person as the singer, Gloria Whitney (stage name) (née Florence Joan Healy; 1911–1974), featured on national radio broadcasts and sweet-styled dance orchestras from about 1931 to about 1942.
- ^ D-F Distributing Corp. was headed by David Dietz. The Third Sex is the only known film distributed by the firm. David Dietz, however, also, with William H. Horne, distributed (i) Assassin for Hire, (ii) Louisiana Story, and (iii) Magie Africaine.
- Werner Heymann.
Books, periodicals, collections, academic works
- OCLC 66142156
ISBN 9781844571239
OCLC 906553204
OCLC 869019127
OCLC 717359699
ISBN 3862820491
OCLC 470440541
OCLC 934476997
Project MUSE)
Note: Williams, as of 2018, is Professor of German at Purdue University
OCLC 7263462
ISBN 9780682485586
FHL microfilm 1558373. November 28, 2014 – via FamilySearch
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NARA
Archival Research Catalog) Identifier 603155Digital Folder Number 4669791
Image Nos. 1868 & 1869
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OCLC 895215571
OCLC 30943749
OCLC 12344138
OCLC 122517134
Newspapers.com
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OCLC 489704553
OCLC 979970340
OCLC 923117470
ISBN 978-0-7864-3800-6
(note: the book incorrectly attributes the director of The Swallow's Nest as John Milton; Robert Milton
was the director)OCLC 857823282
"Eleventh Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities," "Cinema Education Guild," pps. 197–201
Newspapers
- Newspapers.com at www, subscription required)
.newspapers .com /image /380762757 - Newspapers.com at www, subscription required)
.newspapers .com /image /74866244 - ^ "On television: Ray Millard Turns to Comedy" ("The Cuckoo Clock," reviewed) by Evelyn Jones (1929–2014), Boston Herald, February 19, 1954, pg. 43
- The Corsair), Vol. 3, No 16, January 13, 1932, p. 2
- Newspapers.com at www)
.newspapers .com /image /160145814 - New York Times, September 14, 1953, p. L24, col 1 (timesmachine, subscription required)
.nytimes .com /timesmachine /1953 /09 /14 /83854295 .html
External links
- Hans Josef Schumm at IMDb
- Hans Schumm at IMDb
- Hans Schumm at the TCM Movie Database
- Hans Schumm at AllMovie (biography by Hans J. Wollstein)
- Hans Schumm at AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Hans Schumm at Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (cs)
- Hans Schumm biography, filmography and photos at filmportal.de
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