Fita Benkhoff

Acting

Fita Benkhoff

Born 1901-11-01 · Dortmund, Germany

Acting credits

Spaßvögel poster
7.0

Mayor Eberhorn is known as a womanizer to everyone in the village. Katchen, his wife, is constantly trying to convert him to a proper way of life … but in vain. When one morning, Casanova finds a stroller with a clever slogan referencing his affairs at his front door, Eberborn seeks revenge. Top suspects for the prank? The “Spassvogel”: seven friends led by the former sailor Hannes Strobel.

Spaßvögel

1939

The Valley of Love poster
7.5

Rather coarse, pre-War comedy about a Markgraf -- Heinrich XXVI -- who bathes in the springs of the Ammendorf to strengthen his potency. The town and its springs are especially well known for the many couples with lots of children, who, for tax reasons, live there unmarried. The town smithy and bully provides his vitality to ensure the countess has an heir for the throne.

The Valley of Love

1935

Her Private Secretary poster
10.0

When a charming young man arrives to serve as a private secretary for the eccentric Helene Kiepergass a, he quickly becomes entangled in a series of mysterious events in her house. Amidst the arrival of a suspicious "nephew" from Mexico and a house full of peculiar guests, a romance blossoms between the secretary and the lovely companion Mary. He eventually is able to unmask two confidence tricksters amidst the residents.

Her Private Secretary

1940

Pension Schöller poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pension Schöller

1952

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Liebe, Luft und lauter Lügen

1959

Drunter und drüber poster
7.0

Dr. Brunner spends the night with a childhood friend. Instead, he tells his wife he met a friend—who then shows up shortly afterwards, completely unsuspecting. A chaotic comedy of mistaken identity and jealousy.

Drunter und drüber

1939

Many Lies poster
5.5

The stories' setup: a bunch of passive weaklings being dominated by two strong and ambitious women who fight for the same man.

Many Lies

1938

So ein Früchtchen poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

So ein Früchtchen

1942

No artwork available
7.0

After a successful concert, the singer Maria dreams about a man with a boquet of lilies, who follows her and kisses her. A short time later, she actually meets such a man: his name is Peter and he’s on his way to his bride, Helene. In the afternoon, Maria receives a valuable diamond pin from a messenger, which was actually intended for Helene. This confusion will now trigger a wild chase through concert halls and overnight trains. During all of this, Maria’s fiancée will show up, who, in light of all this nonsense, decides he’d be better off with someone less fickle and breaks off the engagement. Maria and Peter, who barely know one another, will be drawn closer together by fate and will eventually marry … and will stay so until Maria no doubt dreams of a lawyer with a divorce decree knocking on her door.

I Have Dreamed of You

1944

Fräulein vom Amt poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fräulein vom Amt

1954

Der schüchterne Casanova poster
7.0

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Der schüchterne Casanova

1936

No artwork available
10.0

In this comedy, a crude country girl from Poland is brought to Germany and turned into a fine lady by a cosmopolitan jeweler.

Old Comrades

1934

Immer die Mädchen poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Immer die Mädchen

1959

No artwork available
7.5

Berlin's theatre crowd is excited about the new operetta "Frau Luna". But for the head of the city's vice police, who was invited to the dress rehearsal, the costumes for the ladies onstage are a bit too revealing. He demands the show be cancelled as offensive. The president of the Thusneldenbund has taken it upon himself to alert everyone about the growth of immorality in the capital. The theatre director Knopp has come up with an idea to convince these "fine" gentlemen to let the operetta go onstage again: He intends to win over the friendship of the moral police and then nothing will stand in the way of "Frau Luna" once more being performed.

Mistress Moon

1941

Charley's Aunt poster
7.5

Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.

Charley's Aunt

1934

Queen of Love poster
10.0

An opera tenor replaces a humble performer in a honky tonk show and wins the heart of the soprano.

Queen of Love

1935

Discretion with Honor poster
10.0

Nazi era depiction of decadent British aristocracy: A madcap country heiress was betrothed to a Lord but runs off with a young inventor after she is found in a compromising position, to avoid a scandal.

Discretion with Honor

1938

Liebe will gelernt sein poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Liebe will gelernt sein

1963

Johann poster
6.5

Johann, the trusted valet of Count Zirndorf, has an affair with chambermaid Marie, but this liaison ends, as does the count's marriage. Years later trouble ensues when the count's daughter falls for young Hans who might be her brother.

Johann

1943

No artwork available
5.3

Curt serenades his wife Charlott from the garden without her recognizing him. When she later doesn't refer to the incident he assumes that she is falling for the 'unknown' suitor and deliberately puts a notorious womanizer on her trail.

When Women Keep Silent

1937

Wenn Frauen schwindeln poster
9.5

Daisy, the daughter of Hellmann, a millionaire toy inventor, is a reporter for Damenwelt, a women’s magazine. In a series of reports, she sets out to prove what men are really like. Above all, Daisy’s aunt is thrilled by her niece’s journalistic zeal, while her father reacts with less enthusiasm, especially since Daisy’s methods keep drawing warnings from the police for causing a public nuisance.

Wenn Frauen schwindeln

1957

If the Father and the Son poster
6.6

After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son since birth, and Teddy decides to raise the child, who always believed that Teddy was his father. When the mother suddenly appears five years later and wants her son, Teddy decides to run away with the child and goes back onstage with his son. Will the family catch up with them, or will the mother never get her son back?

If the Father and the Son

1955

Was wird hier gespielt? poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Was wird hier gespielt?

1940

Wibbel the Tailor poster
5.5

During the Napoleonic occupation of the German states in 1812, a tailor by the name of Anton Wibbel is sentenced to sit in jail for insulting the Emperor. The tailor manages to get out of this by paying off a friend to go to prison in his place. But then, the "phony" prisoner suddenly dies in his cell and everyone now thinks Wibbel is dead.

Wibbel the Tailor

1939