Hans Albers: Bombs Over Monte Carlo? ~ Great photo of Hans Albers in excellent condition. I think this 5" x 7" photo might have been from the 1931 film Bomben auf Monte Carlo in which Hans Albers stars as the captain of a battleship belonging to a small Balkan nation, fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen (Anna Sten). The Queen wants to take her battleship on a Mediterranian cruise despite the dire financial state of her country. In typical fashion, Albers gets the girl in the end.

Hans Albers - Under Weimar Albers was one of the first actors in the world to appear in a sound film. Called the blond, daredevil adventurer and irresistible lover of the German screen, Albers was the most popular screen performer of Nazi Germany, the highest paid German celebrity of the war years, and arguably the most powerful and influential individual outside of the Nazi government. Because of his immense public popularity, Albers was able to thrive in Goebbels' dream factory despite a distaste for the Nazi regime which he made no effort to disguise. In return, Goebbels detested Albers who flatly refused to have anything to do with any production that he felt glorified the Nazi government. Although many, perhaps most, of his roles were fairly harmless entertainment, Albers starred in the 1943 Nazi epic Münchhausen. Still, Albers may have been unique in his ability to thumb his nose at the Hitler state secured by Goebbels' belief that if the German people had been forced to choose between Adolf Hitler and Hans Albers, the majority would have chosen Albers.

• Hans Albers as Captain Craddock