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Jannings

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[jan-ingz, yahn-ings] / ˈdʒæn ɪŋz, ˈjɑn ɪŋs /

noun

  1. Emil Theodor Emil Janenz, 1886–1950, German film actor.


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Jannings won for “The Last Command” and “The Way of All Flesh.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2021

Emil Jannings, who had won the first Oscar a year earlier, co-stars as a middle-aged professor who falls in love with her and descends into madness.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2018

In one episode, Secretariat’s director Kelsey Jannings, along with help from Bojack, attempts to shoot a scene that studio head Lenny Turtletaub doesn’t want her to shoot.

From The Verge ● Aug. 30, 2016

Tobis, only other important German producing company, has already been completely Nazified with paunchy Emil Jannings as one of its actor-directors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Filmed in France in 1932, with Emil Jannings.

From Checklist A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians. by Marion Zimmer Bradley

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