Truus van Aalten

Acting

Truus van Aalten

Born 1910-08-02 · Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands

Truus van Aalten was a Dutch actress who shot to fame in Germany at the end of the 1920s. She appeared in over twenty (UFA) films, usually taking on the role of a lively young girl who gets herself into all sorts of comical scrapes. 'Het Meisje in de Blauwe Hoed' was to be the only film she ever made on her native soil.

Acting credits

His Late Excellency poster
8.0

In the Ruritanian kingdom of Leuchtenstein, the old ruler has just died. His subjects are a bunch of intrigants, and his only real friend was the Baroness Windegg (Olga Tschechowa), a kind-hearted, witty, and very attractive woman, who however was not much loved by the Leuchtenstein upper class. And as these are only interested in getting better positions and other wealths after His Excellency's death, the baroness invents the story that the old ruler wrote his memoirs before his death, containing a lot of intimate, delicate and potentially embarrassing details about the Leuchtenstein dignitaries. Unsurprisingly, everyone is afraid about the details to be revealed. Only the successor to the throne, Prince Ernst Albrecht (Willy Fritsch) sees through the baroness' scheme, and as he is a lusty young man, he joins in her prank.

His Late Excellency

1927

Leontines Ehemänner poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Leontines Ehemänner

1928

The Girl from Spree Woods poster
8.0

Rural comedy about a farmer's fiancée who becomes distracted by a handsome young officer staying with them in 1910s Germany.

The Girl from Spree Woods

1928

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8.0

Karl is an avid stamp collector and journeyman in the employ of the tailor Kuhn. Having taken a fancy to the journeyman, the tailor’s wife Paula means to woo him by adding a priceless stamp to his collection. When a client is robbed, the value of the stamp makes Karl a suspect, and he is wrongly imprisoned until the embarrassing particulars come to light.

Der Sonderling

1929

Headlong into happiness poster
6.0

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Headlong into happiness

1931

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6.5

A journalist travelling by train to Vienna meets an American millionairess travelling incognito. They become friends and decide it'd be fun to swap places for awhile.

Tales from the Vienna Woods

1934

Nur ein Viertelstündchen poster
NR

A zoologist has housed a wide variety of animals in his apartment and keeps himself busy with them. A pretty young secretary is at his side. Only the young man in the apartment next door is not so keen on the noise and solves the problem by breaking through the dividing wall.

Nur ein Viertelstündchen

1932

Susie Cleans Up poster
7.0

Susanne Braun is keen to meet her father who she has never seen, but who supports her financially. She visits the Berlin lawyer who oversees the monthly maintenance payments, but he sets her on completely the wrong track. Consequently she encounters several potential fathers.

Susie Cleans Up

1930

Darling of the Gods poster
6.3

Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer Albert Winkelmann, who is greeted with cheers, applause and romantic propositions whenever he performs in his native Vienna. But when he embarks on a tour of South America, tragedy strikes. The sweltering climate causes Winkelmann to lose his voice on stage, a disaster met with hoots and cat-calls. Dispirited he returns to Europe, where he soon learns that no one is aware of what happened in South America. Intending to retire so as not to be exposed to further humiliation, Winkelmann is goaded back on stage -- where, miraculously, his gorgeous voice returns.

Darling of the Gods

1930

Six Girls and a Room for the Night poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Six Girls and a Room for the Night

1928

Ein ganzer Kerl poster
9.0

Jule (Heidemarie Hatheyer), a 25 year old women is not having an easy life. Her cousin Stefan Rüdiger (Albert Matterstock) has left "manor Jobshagen" as an 18 year old and Jule has had to manage business since then. Her uncle, Stefan's father, never could get over the leaving of his son and isolated himself from the world. Jule, once a blithe youngster, became a tough woman by the time. And there are heavy debts on the manor Jobshagen, 6000 Marks. The innkeeper Meyer could give Jule the money, but he wants a big part of the estates of manor Jobshagen for exchange and that is the last thing that Jule would accept.

Ein ganzer Kerl

1939

Only on the Rhine ... poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Only on the Rhine ...

1930

Excursion into Life poster
5.8

Felix Bressart, later one of the most delightful members of the Ernst Lubitsch "stock company," plays the title character in the Austrian comedy Hirsekorn Greift Ein (Hirsekorn Does Something About It). It's a typical worm-turns affair, as a mild-mannered provincial actor ends up working as a chauffeur for a scatterbrained female novelist. Slapstick is the order of the day, except in the scenes involving heroine Charlotte Susa. Guiding the actors through their paces was Rudolf Bernauer, a stage actor-manager of vast experience. Critics in 1931 felt that Hirsekorn Greift Ein was too thin to be stretched to 90 minutes.

Excursion into Life

1931

Die geheime Macht poster
7.0

"The Secret Power" - Hardly anyone who strays into the emigrant's restaurant "Strange Bird" would suspect that the porter once was a general, the waiter a prince and the cook an admiral, and that the lady at the bar is actually the princess Sinaide forced was leaving their home.

Die geheime Macht

1928

Schoeller's Boarding House poster
8.0

Adaptation of a popular comedy: When the country uncle he has been bilking comes to town to visit, a young student takes him to a boarding house full of exaggerated eccentric characters.

Schoeller's Boarding House

1930

Teilnehmer antwortet nicht poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Teilnehmer antwortet nicht

1932

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7.0

No synopsis available yet.

O girl, my girl, how I love you!

1930

The Happy Vagabonds poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Happy Vagabonds

1928

Der moderne Casanova poster
10.0

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Der moderne Casanova

1928

No artwork available
10.0

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Kasernenzauber

1931

The Beggar Student poster
7.0

First of several filmed versions of a popular period operetta, in which an early 18th century noblewoman in Poland falls in love with a revolutionary student activist.

The Beggar Student

1931

Die fidele Herrenpartie poster
7.0

Gentlemen Among Themselves (German: Die fidele Herrenpartie or Herren unter sich) is a 1929 German silent comedy film directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein and starring Hermann Picha, Lydia Potechina and Maria Paudler.

Die fidele Herrenpartie

1929

The Girl in the Blue Hat poster
6.8

When grocers's son Daantje Pieters is drafted, he falls for a girl in a blue hat he spots aboard the train to the garrison. At the barracks in The Hague, crafty conman Toontje takes Daantje under his wing. Toontje decides to help him look for his dream girl, but draws the line at them planning an engagement — for such things are not for soldiers.

The Girl in the Blue Hat

1934

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ich hab mein Herz im Autobus verloren

1929