Today's online find...
The film is based on Lion Feuchtwanger's novel, also entitled Jew Süss*.
I've always had kind of a thing for Mr. Veidt, and I found the movie on Youtube.
I paused the movie, then took my snipping thingie, and got the above image.
* Jew Süss is my all-time favorite novel. It was also published under the title Power, I guess because many people recalled the Nazi era version of the movie, and associate the title somehow with Nazism.
Conrad Veidt died at age 50, probably from years of heavy smoking. Clark Gable was another very heavy smoker, but he lasted until age 59. Poor Nat King Cole, yet another nicotine addict, passed away at 45.
If you'd like to see Mr. Veidt in living color, check out the movie The Thief of Bagdad (1940), where he plays Jaffar, i.e. the bad guy.
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