Jenny Jugo

Acting

Jenny Jugo

Born — Died

1904-06-14 — 2001-09-30

Place of birth

Mürzzuschlag, Austria

Known for

Acting

Credits

49 titles

Jenny Jugo (born Eugenie Walter; 14 June 1904 – 30 September 2001) was an Austrian actress. She appeared in more than fifty films between 1925 and 1950. She was placed under contract by the German studio UFA in 1924, but struggled in early dramatic roles. Towards the end of the silent era, she fared much better in comedies and this trend continued into the 1930s. She became known for her portrayal of bouncy, assertive characters. Many of her films during this period were directed by Erich Engel. She continued making films during the Nazi era until 1943, spending much of the rest of her time at her home in Bavaria. She was in a relationship with the producer Eberhard Klagemann who oversaw h…

Known for

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6.0

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German Film Award

1951

Loves of Casanova poster
6.3

Republic of Venice, 1760. Pursued by a vengeful husband, the intrepid womanizer Casanova, who symbolizes the decline of the city and its fall into debauchery, manages to escape and, by a circuitous route, arrives in Saint Petersburg, where he will be involved in the many plots that threaten the throne of Czar Peter III…

Loves of Casanova

1927

Pygmalion poster
6.7

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

Pygmalion

1935

Hearts Are Trumps poster
6.0

Hotel tycoon Paulsen re-meets an old flame who mistakes him for a waiter. Paulsen's daughter Toni likes hotelier Reno and accepts to work for him as a waitress and chambermaid because she wants to be loved for herself, not her money.

Hearts Are Trumps

1934

The Queen of Spades poster
9.0

The Queen of Spades or Pique Dame is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Aleksandr Razumnyj and starring Jenny Jugo, Rudolf Forster and Henri De Vries. It is one of many film adaptations of the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin's 1834 short story The Queen of Spades.

The Queen of Spades

1927

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

Film credits

1940s · 6 titles

Träum’ nicht, Annette! poster
5.5

French teacher Annette Müller has two ardent admirers who are constantly urging her to marry: diplomat Klaus and engineer Theo. But she can't make up her mind. Then a third one joins them, the pianist Hans. Sometimes she dreams of Klaus, sometimes of Theo. And although she is angry that Hans has taken up residence in her boarding house, she can't stop herself from dreaming about him too. When she asks him, of all people, which of the other two she should marry, there is a big row between them - and she realizes who the right man is.

Träum’ nicht, Annette!

1949

Much Ado About Nixi poster
5.5

Nixi has a vivid imagination and she makes extensive use of it. After parting from her longtime fiancée after an argument, she tells her father, that she’s pregnant --- and by another man: the police prefect Roland von Gabriel, whom she met after an auto accident. Called in by her father to be lectured, Roland doesn’t seem to mind the idea of marrying Nixi, but she’s already taken to her heels and fled.

Much Ado About Nixi

1942

Nanette poster
8.0

Successful playwright goes undercover to get new material and finds romance.

Nanette

1940

Die Gattin poster
8.0

Puck Niklas (Jenny Jugo) loves her husband Peter even though her brother thinks he's a no-good. She's very charming and a bit crazy and does everything to help him get an engagement as an architect. Opportunity comes knocking in the form of factory owner Walter Baumann (Willy Fritsch) who sees through her trickery but at the same time charmed by her, he gives her Peter the job. Soon Walter finds out

Die Gattin

1943

Unser Fräulein Doktor poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Unser Fräulein Doktor

1940

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sag’ endlich ja

1945

1930s · 21 titles

Pygmalion poster
6.7

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

Pygmalion

1935

Hearts Are Trumps poster
6.0

Hotel tycoon Paulsen re-meets an old flame who mistakes him for a waiter. Paulsen's daughter Toni likes hotelier Reno and accepts to work for him as a waitress and chambermaid because she wants to be loved for herself, not her money.

Hearts Are Trumps

1934

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

Allotria poster
7.4

Best friends David and Philip have to end their love affair with their mistress Aimée which they - not knowing of each other - share, because they are going to marry their sweethearts Gaby and Viola. Of course Aimée will not accept her defeat. She interferes the engagement of Gaby and David, which lead to some turbulence and change of horses before they all end up in their honeymoon.

Allotria

1936

Who Takes Love Seriously? poster
8.0

Max Hansen and Willi Schur play two small-time criminals who steal dogs from their owners in the hope that they will get a reward. When the police catches them at their 'work', Hansen flees and gets into the apartment of Jenny Jugo, who takes a liking to the man and pretends that he's her boyfriend. Her landlady isn't amused, and so our heroine loses her rooms and moves in with Hansen. The two of them soon become lovebirds, of course. But when they later go to an entertainment park and Jugo takes part in a beauty contest, trouble arises...

Who Takes Love Seriously?

1931

Five from the Jazzband poster
7.5

By pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre “Trocadero”. Unfortunately, she knows nothing about music and it doesn’t help that all four musicians are in love with her. Jessie doesn’t reciprocate their feelings, because she has a thing for Martin. Unfortunately, Martin believes that Jessie stole his car … and so, right before the premiere at the cabaret, she ends up in jail.

Five from the Jazzband

1932

Victoria in Dover poster
9.0

After her Prime Minister Lord Melbourne arranges a marriage for her with the German Prince Albert, the young Queen Victoria decides to leave London and spend some time in Kent. While there she meets a handsome young German and falls in love, unaware that he is her intended husband Albert.

Victoria in Dover

1936

There Is Only One Love poster
10.0

The chamber singer Sir Henry Godwin and the ballet master Blattner need a vacation.

There Is Only One Love

1933

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10.0

A young woman from the Berlin slums gets her chance to move into a new suburban home with her boyfriend, when she wins a lottery.

Hard Luck Mary

1934

Miss Madame poster
10.0

On their honeymoon in St. Moritz,a new husband who is much older than his young bride is driven to despair when he thinks she prefers to spend her time with a younger man there, an actor.

Miss Madame

1934

Die kleine und die große Liebe poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Die kleine und die große Liebe

1938

The Town Stands on Its Head poster
10.0

In the style of Gogol's Inspector General: When a traveling salesman arrives in the car of a government official, the powers that be of a small town think he's the auditor and try to throw him off the track about their disorderly finances.

The Town Stands on Its Head

1933

Tonight with Me poster
9.0

A very naive Viennese vinyl records saleswoman falls in love with a well-mannered young man. Due to a combination of circumstances, she was involved in the endless series of accidents, intrigues and piquant situations perfectly emphasized by the morals of those times, a subtle satire on the bourgeoisie and an atmosphere of innocent romance.

Tonight with Me

1934

Zigeuner der Nacht poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Zigeuner der Nacht

1932

The Night with the Emperor poster
10.0

A dancing girl succeeds in getting Napoleon, in 1808, to pardon her lover, a German artist who has drawn an unflattering caricature of the French emperor during his Erfurt conference with the Czar and several local princes.

The Night with the Emperor

1936

Tonight - Eventually poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tonight - Eventually

1930

A Hopeless Case poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Hopeless Case

1939

Headlong into happiness poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Headlong into happiness

1931

The Great Desire poster
7.7

A young woman leaves behind her job, home and family to try to make it in the movie business. Features cameos from about three dozen German film stars of the era.

The Great Desire

1930

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6.0

The formerly wealthy Baron Carl Erich von Wenden is desperate. His debts are out of control and he is forced to give up everything he owns. Since he doesn’t want to burden his daughter Rosy with all of this, he tells her he’ll take a pleasure trip with her … in truth, however, he has to work as an assistant waiter in the evenings, while Rosy stays in the hotel. He constantly fears his daughter will discover the truth; and this is a shame he cannot bear.

A Dangerous Game

1937

The Naked Truth poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Naked Truth

1932

1920s · 19 titles

Loves of Casanova poster
6.3

Republic of Venice, 1760. Pursued by a vengeful husband, the intrepid womanizer Casanova, who symbolizes the decline of the city and its fall into debauchery, manages to escape and, by a circuitous route, arrives in Saint Petersburg, where he will be involved in the many plots that threaten the throne of Czar Peter III…

Loves of Casanova

1927

The Queen of Spades poster
9.0

The Queen of Spades or Pique Dame is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Aleksandr Razumnyj and starring Jenny Jugo, Rudolf Forster and Henri De Vries. It is one of many film adaptations of the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin's 1834 short story The Queen of Spades.

The Queen of Spades

1927

Looping the Loop poster
8.5

Botto the Clown is in love with the much younger Blanche but she is in love with the handsome daredevil acrobate Andre.

Looping the Loop

1928

Docks of Hamburg poster
5.8

When Hamburg ship's mate Klaus Brandt catches a thief one night at the port, his downfall is pre-ordained. For the thief turns out to be a young, attractive woman and the otherwise upright sailor allows her to slip away. Jenny is the star of a local dive bar, with a side-line in smuggling.

Docks of Hamburg

1928

Die Puppe vom Lunapark poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Puppe vom Lunapark

1925

Die Flucht vor der Liebe poster
9.0

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Die Flucht vor der Liebe

1929

The Tower of Silence poster
6.8

Eva lives in the sinister Tower with her father, a mad inventor, and her grandfather. The aviator Wilfred Durian and his lovely wife live nearby in the town. But Durian's famous flight across the Australian desert was not all it seems... and when his 'dead' partner Arved Holl is rescued by Eva and comes to claim his former fiancée's hand, the whole house of cards is about to come tumbling down. Meanwhile, Eva's own family history is not quite as she had always believed...

The Tower of Silence

1925

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10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Friesenblut

1925

No artwork available
6.3

A woman loses her undergarments in public. Chaos ensues.

Die Hose

1927

Die Schmugglerbraut von Mallorca poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Schmugglerbraut von Mallorca

1929

Der Bund der Drei poster
10.0

A waitress plans revenge on the man whom she believes killed her mother.

Der Bund der Drei

1929

Six Girls and a Room for the Night poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Six Girls and a Room for the Night

1928

Der Kampf gegen Berlin poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Kampf gegen Berlin

1926

Die indiskrete Frau poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die indiskrete Frau

1927

Prince Louis Ferdinand poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Prince Louis Ferdinand

1927

The Blue Mouse poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Blue Mouse

1928

Schiff in Not poster
10.0

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Schiff in Not

1925

No artwork available
7.0

Silent romantic comedy set on a train.

Express Train of Love

1925

No artwork available
10.0

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Ledige Töchter

1926

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