The Golden Butterfly

The Golden Butterfly
French release poster
Directed by	Michael Curtiz
Written by	Jane Bess Adolf Lantz Story: P.G. Wodehouse
Produced by	Arnold Pressburger
Starring	Hermann Leffler Lili Damita
Cinematography	Gustav Ucicky Eduard von Borsody
Music by	Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production companies	Sascha Film Phoebus Film
Distributed by	Phoebus Film
Release date	30 August 1926 (1926-08-30) (Germany)
Countries	Weimar Republic Austria Denmark

The Golden Butterfly (German: Der goldene Schmetterling) is a 1926 Austrian-German silent drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Hermann Leffler, Lili Damita and Nils Asther.

The film was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin and on location in London and Cambridge. The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul Leni. It was made as a co-production between the Austrian Sascha Film and the German Phoebus Film. It was released in Britain by the Stoll Pictures company. It was the last film directed by the Hungarian Michael Curtiz in Germany before he emigrated to the United States.^[1]

Cast

Hermann Leffler as MacFarland
Lili Damita as Lilian, his foster daughter
Nils Asther as Andy, his son
Jack Trevor as Teddy Aberdeen, a wealthy and idle man
Curt Bois as André Dubois, dancer and choreographer
Kurt Gerron as the regular diner
Karl Platen as 'Uncle Bill', the head waiter
Ferdinand Bonn as the theatre director
Julius von Szöreghy as the cook

References

^ Von Dassanowsky p.30

Bibliography

Robert Von Dassanowsky. Austrian Cinema. McFarland & Co, 2005.

External links

The Golden Butterfly at IMDb
The Golden Butterfly at the TCM Movie Database

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