Writing

Irma von Cube

Born — Died

1899-12-26 — 1977-07-25

Place of birth

Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Known for

Writing

Credits

26 titles

Irma von Cube (December 26, 1899 – July 25, 1977) was a German-American screenwriter. She began as an actress and a writer for films in Germany in the early 1930s, and continued when she arrived in the United States in 1938. Among her films is the They Shall Have Music (1939), Johnny Belinda (1948), for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and Song of Love (1947) co-starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, and Robert Walker. She also directed one of five segments of the Italy-UK co-production anthology film A Tale of Five Cities (1951).

Known for

Behind the camera

Johnny Belinda poster
6.9

A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.

Johnny Belinda

1948

Song of Love poster
6.8

Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.

Song of Love

1947

The Girl in White poster
7.1

The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they come to respect her and romance blossoms between her and the head doctor.

The Girl in White

1952

They Shall Have Music poster
6.4

The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.

They Shall Have Music

1939

A Tale of Five Cities poster
5.0

An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory

A Tale of Five Cities

1951

The Million Hunters poster
8.0

It tells the story of the funny situations that occur when the advertisements placed in an advertising agency are mixed up due to the carelessness of the staff working in the office.

The Million Hunters

1934

Farewell poster
7.0

Hella lives in a boarding house and has various romantic adventures before settling down with vacuum cleaner salesman Winkler.

Farewell

1930

The High Tourist poster
10.0

Romantic exploits in Germany's White Mountains.

The High Tourist

1931

No More Love poster
7.6

An American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them for five years. But after four and a half years traveling around on his yacht, he rescues a lady from drowning in the English Channel.

No More Love

1931

Street of Shadows poster
6.9

A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.

Street of Shadows

1937

A Girl and a Million poster
9.0

The French language version of Sehnsucht 202 (1932).

A Girl and a Million

1932

One Night's Song poster
5.8

Opera singer Enrico Ferraro, tired of his too many engagements, jumps off the train escaping from his manager and changes to another going to the Riviera. He makes a friend and stops at a village, where (it seems) he can at last have some well deserved holidays, with the added interest of meeting a beautiful girl in the surroundings.

One Night's Song

1933

The Song of Night poster
8.0

He was known as Anatole Litvak during his Hollywood directorial career, but he was still Anatole Litwak when he helmed the German musical Das Lied Einer Nacht (The Song of Night). Famed Polish tenor Jan Kiepura stars as famed Italian tenor Ferraro. Escaping from his tyrannical manager, Ferraro switches identities with a young tourist (Fritz Schulz) and goes off on an unscheduled Swiss holiday. Still travelling incognito, our hero falls in love with a winsome mountain girl (Magda Schneider). Alas, both his romance -- and his freedom -- are placed in jeopardy when it turns out that the charming young fellow with whom Ferraro traded identities was actually a notorious swindler. Anatole Litvak also directed the English-language version of Das Lied Einer Nacht, Be Mine Tonight

The Song of Night

1932

A Song for You poster
8.0

During a concert tour, famous tenor Riccardo Gatti meets Lixie at an Aida rehearsal and takes her for a ballet dancer. She is in fact trying to get a position for her boyfriend, so she accepts Gatti's date for supper. When she runs away he publishes a newspaper ad offering to give a concert anywhere she chooses if she shows up. She chooses a swimming pool hoping to discourage him, but he accepts.

A Song for You

1933

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vous serez ma femme

1932

Calais-Douvres poster
7.0

French language version of Nie wieder Liebe! (1931) Disgusted with love, a man bets 500,000 that he can live 5 years without a woman, joins a band of fellow women-haters, and manages to make it through 4 until he meets a troublesome young lady.

Calais-Douvres

1931

All for Love poster
5.5

A famous tenor manages to charm away a lovely young lady who was just about to be married to the opera director.

All for Love

1933

The Cheeky Devil poster
10.0

Adaptation of a French comedy, set in Paris, in which a lecherous man sets his sights on a beautiful married woman, whose husband is otherwise distracted.

The Cheeky Devil

1932

Dolly is making a career poster
10.0

Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfriend. She sings,at one point, that she has the walk of (Lilian) Harvey, the mouth of Garbo and the legs of Dietrich.

Dolly is making a career

1930

The Stolen Face poster
7.5

Bill's girlfriend Lore is an art student in Berlin. Since her professor doesn't think much of painting women, she exchanges a genuine Raphael painting in a gallery for a copy made by her. In a spectacular theft, the copy is stolen. Detective Keller suspects Bill and Lore. But Bill, who is a talented quick-change artist, keeps escaping arrest by constantly altering his appearance.

The Stolen Face

1930

Gilgi: One of Us poster
8.0

A young woman born illegitimately comes to terms with the challenge of getting married.

Gilgi: One of Us

1932

Tell Me Tonight poster
6.5

An Italian operatic tenor is dominated by his female business manager.

Tell Me Tonight

1932

Mädchenschicksale poster
8.0

About exciting and everyday stories and dreams in the life of young and inexperienced girls.

Mädchenschicksale

1928

Caprice de princesse poster
9.0

Princess Isabelle is in love with the young man in charge of her library. But André is looking for a simple woman without money. He falls in love with a shopgirl who could be the Princess' sister. It's up to Isabelle come up with a scheme to find love...

Caprice de princesse

1933

The Fear poster
4.0

A lady who had a secret affair lives in fear.

The Fear

1936

Sehnsucht 202 poster
8.0

After a mix-up with a newspaper advertisement, a shop-girl and a millionairess are mistaken for one another by two businessmen. A musical romantic comedy.

Sehnsucht 202

1932