Hans Jacoby

Hans Jacoby (1904–1963) was a German screenwriter. Jacoby was of Jewish background^[1] and was forced to go into exile when the Nazi Party took power in 1933. Jacoby settled in the United States for many years, working on the screenplays of a number of Hollywood productions. He returned to Germany in the mid-1950s, and worked in the West German film industry until his death.

Selected filmography[]

Screenwriter[]

• Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman (1926)
• The Land of Smiles (1930)
• There Goes Susie (1934)
• I Was an Adventuress (1938)
• Gibraltar (1938)
• I Was an Adventuress (1938)
• Princess Tarakanova (1938)
• There's No Tomorrow (1939)
• Night in December (1940)
• I Was an Adventuress (1940)
• Between Us Girls (1942)
• The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
• Phantom of the Opera (1943)
• Tars and Spars (1946)
• Champagne for Caesar (1950)
• Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950)
• Sirocco (1951)
• Reunion in Reno (1951)
• Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)
• Taxi (1953)
• Carnival Story (1954)
• Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1954)
• Stranger from Venus (1954)
• Vater sein dagegen sehr (1957)
• The Mad Bomberg (1957)
• Eva (1958)
• It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)
• Heart Without Mercy (1958)
• The Man Who Walked Through the Wall (1959)
• Menschen im Hotel (1959)
• Das schwarze Schaf (1960)
• The Good Soldier Schweik (1960)
• The Juvenile Judge (1960)
• The Liar (1961)
• Street of Temptation (1962)
• Max the Pickpocket (1962)
• Axel Munthe, The Doctor of San Michele (1962)
• A Nearly Decent Girl (1963)

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links[]

• Hans Jacoby at IMDb

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