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I'm watching Romance in Manhattan, 1935, starring Francis Lederer and Ginger Rogers. A sweet little B movie. And this hunk Lederer, never heard of him but he had a career in Europe and then a pretty good career in USA and became very rich through real estate. He was born poor in Prague in 1899, and was a "wrestler". He's shirtless briefly in this movie and is very fine!
Do you know of this guy? Or others like him - sexy and mostly forgotten to history, nowadays?
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | January 7, 2022 2:51 AM |
If you ever get the chance to see the German silent, "The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrowna" with Brigitte Helm - he was absolutely gorgeous in it.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 5, 2022 9:29 PM |
Prague is beautiful. I have never heard of this guy, but there is the Fred and Ginger "Dancing House" in Prague.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 5, 2022 9:30 PM |
The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) is a very campy film. Judith Anderson glamorizes made Paulette Goddard to seduce her son Hurd Hatfield so he won't leave home. Francis Lederer is absolutely hysterical as the evil butler, and Burgess Meredith and Florence Bates are a hoot as the next door neighbors. Irene Ryan too!!!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 5, 2022 9:37 PM |
More! More!! More!!!
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 6, 2022 2:31 AM |
In his 40s, with Hedy... er, Joan Bennett, in "The Man I Married" (1940).
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 6, 2022 3:17 AM |
He was very handsome, OP, I agree.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 6, 2022 3:24 AM |
Is that pronounced;
"Ledder-er"?
"Le-Deraa"?
"Lede-Rar"?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 6, 2022 3:43 AM |
Is Francis Lederer related to Friedrich von Ledebur?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 6, 2022 3:46 AM |
Lederer became wealthy in real estate and was a big deal in the development of Owensmouth-Canoga Park-West Hills.
His second wife was Margo, who went on to marry Eddie Albert.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 6, 2022 4:02 AM |
IMDB says he was giving acting classes until shortly before he died in 2000, at age 100.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 6, 2022 4:10 AM |
R13 That bastard!!!
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 6, 2022 4:17 AM |
Was he related to Helen Lederer of AbFab?
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 6, 2022 4:23 AM |
OP, nice VPL but not otherwise 'hunky'.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 6, 2022 4:40 AM |
Was he gay?
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 6, 2022 6:49 AM |
He played a modern day Dracula in the late 1950s era The Return of Dracula”; I remember seeing it on tv when I was a kid. The scene that stuck with me was his death scene; falling into a pit onto a bunch of pikes that pierced his body. Pretty graphic to me at the time.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | January 6, 2022 9:29 AM |
You may call them high riding, r19, but the waist band is at his actual waist.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 6, 2022 5:38 PM |
[quote] He played a modern day Dracula in the late 1950s era The Return of Dracula”; I remember seeing it on tv when I was a kid. The scene that stuck with me was his death scene; falling into a pit onto a bunch of pikes that pierced his body. Pretty graphic to me at the time.
It's the only movie I know him from!
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | January 6, 2022 5:42 PM |
The trousers are high riding on his mangina slit.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | January 6, 2022 8:20 PM |
It was the cut of the day, r23.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | January 6, 2022 8:53 PM |
The Hays Code forbade audiences from seeing navels.
Navels = Sex.
This Wiki survey seems more interested in female navels.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | January 6, 2022 8:59 PM |
One of vintage Hollywood's "Hot Jews."
Oddly, he plays an "Eskimo" in MAN OF TWO WORLDS (34), his first Hollywood film.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | January 6, 2022 9:23 PM |
R9 "Was..."
When 900 years old, you reach Look as good, you will not...
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | January 6, 2022 9:43 PM |
The is an old comedy called Midnight starring Claudette Colbert, Mary Astor, John Barrymore and Lederer. They used to show it on TCM, it is wonderful. if you can find it, watch it.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | January 7, 2022 1:52 AM |
Has anybody seen "The Gay Deception" with Francis Lederer and Frances Dee?
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