Ida Wüst

Acting

Ida Wüst

Born 1884-10-10 · Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Acting credits

Once There Was a Waltz poster
8.0

Banker Rudi Moebius and his counselor arrive in Wien for an arranged marriage which should solve their financial problems. Only they don't know, but Lucie Weidling is broken too, and in love with Gustl, a musician without the courage to elope. Meanwhile Rudi meets Steffi and falls in love not even knowing her name. He and Lucie become good friends and decide to help each other.

Once There Was a Waltz

1932

The Csardas Princess poster
9.0

Sylva Varescu is an operetta singer performing Kálmán's Die Czardasfürstin through Europe with great success. Before going to Vienna she meets handsome Prinz Weylerstein and they fall in love. Offered a contract for America, she doubts until she finds out that he is already engaged to a countess.

The Csardas Princess

1934

No artwork available
9.0

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

Die Straße des Vergessens

1926

No artwork available
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Der kühne Schwimmer

1934

Rote Mühle poster
10.0

A respectable woman in her 50s inherits a local night club from her husband in a divorce settlement, provided that she shows up there every night at 10:00pm for a month. In spite of eny and provocation, she manages to meet the terms.

Rote Mühle

1940

Two Worlds poster
6.0

A foreman’s son and his noble friend, who have voluntarily arrived from Berlin to help out with the harvest, switch their billeting coupons while on the journey, so as to play a trick on the estate owner, who is related to one of them. The wrong boy is asked to sit at the estate owner’s table, while the real relative is pushed off on the servants. And so begins a game of confusion with amusing results.

Two Worlds

1940

My Leopold poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

My Leopold

1931

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sonne über der Adria

1954

The rejuvenated Adolar poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

The rejuvenated Adolar

1931

The Beautiful Adventure poster
7.0

Helene has agreed to marry a man that she isn't in love with. On the day of her wedding her cousin arrives just in time to rescue her and they run away together. They stay with her aged grandmother who assumes the young man (whom she doesn't know) to be the new husband and has prepared a bridal bed for them.

The Beautiful Adventure

1932

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wenn Männer schwindeln

1950

Once a Great Lady poster
9.0

A young woman working as a secretary for a Berlin car business tries to impress a rich Australian visitor by pretending she is a foreign countess.

Once a Great Lady

1934

Marriage in Name Only poster
5.0

a movie by Heinz Paul

Marriage in Name Only

1930

Laughing Heirs poster
6.1

After the death of his uncle, the owner of the Rhine based Bockelmann Sparkling Wine, Peter turns up for the reading of the will. Justus Bockelmann, a producer of mineral water, is confident he will inherit the business, but ‘for reasons of moral rectitude’ he has no intention of running an ‘alcoholic business’. The opening of the will comes as a surprise to all the potential heirs.

Laughing Heirs

1933

Herbstmanöver poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Herbstmanöver

1936

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Taxi-Gattin

1950

Refugees poster
6.3

Propaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as "Volga Germans", in the Soviet province of Manchuria.

Refugees

1933

Zweierlei Moral poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Zweierlei Moral

1931

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

Das Heiratsnest poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das Heiratsnest

1927

Elisabeth of Austria poster
7.0

Elisabeth of Austria is a German movie with Lil Dagover as royalty Elisabeth who has many men to choose from.

Elisabeth of Austria

1931

How Shall I Tell My Husband? poster
5.5

The film starts in the fashionable seaside resort on the Baltic, Heringsdorf, where Renate Müller spends a secret weekend away from her husband with her bosom friend Ida Wüst. The husband meanwhile has a flirtation while traveling by night train from Frankfurt to Berlin, nice atmospheric shots of sleeper and dining car in the morning. The action continues in the luxury villas and apartments of Berlin, Renate Müller wears a string of very elegant outfits. Misunderstandings, jealousies, temporary separation of husband and wife, a few songs, wicked humour.

How Shall I Tell My Husband?

1932

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

Großstadtjugend poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Großstadtjugend

1929

Behind the camera