Georg C. Klaren

Georg C. Klaren
Born	10 September 1900 Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	18 November 1962 Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England
Other names	Georg Eugen Moritz Alexander Klaric
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter Film director
Years active	1926–1955

Georg C. Klaren (1900–1962) was an Austrian screenwriter and film director. He worked on a number of screenplays with Herbert Juttke during the silent and early sound eras including Alfred Hitchcock's 1931 film Mary. After the Second World War, Klaren became the head dramaturge at the East German state-owned studio DEFA.

Selected filmography

Screenwriter

• Nanette Makes Everything (1926)
• Department Store Princess (1926)
• I Liked Kissing Women (1926)
• Assassination (1927)
• The Transformation of Dr. Bessel (1927)
• Flirtation (1927)
• Casanova's Legacy (1928)
• Sex in Chains (1928)
• Fair Game (1928)
• The Lady and the Chauffeur (1928)
• Odette (1928)
• A Knight in London (1929)
• Kolonne X (1929)
• The Lord of the Tax Office (1929)
• Somnambul (1929)
• Devotion (1929)
• Cagliostro (1929)
• Marriage in Trouble (1929)
• Perjury (1929)
• Peter the Mariner (1929)
• The Right of the Unborn (1929)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929)
• Busy Girls (1930)
• Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days (1930)
• Elisabeth of Austria (1931)
• The Lovers of Midnight (1931)
• Mary (1931)
• Madame Bluebeard (1931)
• Gloria (1931)
• Chauffeur Antoinette (1932)
• The Love Contract (1932)
• The Secret of Johann Orth (1932)
• Three from the Unemployment Office (1932)
• A Woman Like You (1933)
• There Is Only One Love (1933)
• Frasquita (1934)
• Pillars of Society (1935)
• The Cossack and the Nightingale (1935)
• Ave Maria (1936)
• A Woman Between Two Worlds (1936)
• Shadows of the Past (1936)
• The Love of the Maharaja (1936)
• The Chief Witness (1937)
• Heimweh (1937)
• The Beaver Coat (1937)
• The False Step (1939)
• Clarissa (1941)
• Doctor Crippen (1942)
• Voyage Without Hope (1943)
• Love's Carnival (1955)

Director

• Manolescu, Prince of Thieves (1933)
• Wozzeck (1947)
• Semmelweis – Retter der Mütter (1950)
• Die Sonnenbrucks (1951)
• Call Over the Air (1951)
• Karriere in Paris (1952)
• Daughter of the Regiment (1953)

Bibliography

McGilligan, Patrick. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light. HarperCollins, 2004.

External links

• Georg C. Klaren at IMDb