Wolf Albach-Retty, #68 ~ This lot is an original 1930s vintage card from Ramses Cigarettes as part of their Film-Fotos series, card #68. The example offered here is in about fine condition, see my scan.

Wolf Albach-Retty was born Wolf Helmuth Albach in Vienna. His mother was the famous actress Rosa Albach-Retty. He attended the Viennese Academy for Music and the Performing Arts and performed for the first time in a school play. He made his professional acting debut at the Burgtheater in 1926 and continued to act on stage and screen for about the next 40 years.

His first film roles were the German silent films Das Grobe Hemd (1927) and Der Geheimnisvolle Spiegel (1927) and before his death in 1967, he had parts in about a hundred other films and television series almost all of which were intended for the German market.

On the set of Kind, ich freu' mich auf Dein Kommen (1933) he met the actress Magda Schneider. The two had a chemistry both on and off-stage. Before World War II they appeared together in eight films and became something of Germany's sweethearts. The couple wed in 1937 and had a daughter, actress Romy Schneider, in 1938.

During the Nazi era, Wolf Albach-Retty appeared mostly in the light entertainment favored by the Reich. However, he did appear in a few minor propaganda efforts including Heimatland or Homeland and Mutterliebe or Mother Love (both 1939).

For three years after the war, while the German film industry was in a rebuilding process and while some Nazi associated performers were black-listed, Albach-Retty made no films. But, in 1948, his career resumed. He made at least one film every years and sometime three or four until 1965. The actor died in 1967.

• Der schwarze Husar aka The Black Hussar (1932)
• Falstaff in Wien (1940)
• Sieben Jahre Pech (1940)
• Maske in Blau (1942)
• Der weisse Traum (1943)