Georg Jacoby

In 1959 appeared the last cooperation between Jacoby and Rökk in the cinemas - "Die Nacht vor der Premiere". Marika Rökk told later: "We flog the success craze to dead".

He wasn't exclusively fixed on musicals but also shot crime comedies like "Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox" (1955) and military burlesques like "Zu Befehl, Frau Feldwebel" (1956).

The most successful film of Jacoby became "Die Frau meiner Träume" (1944). The audience thronged so vehement into the cinema palace that some of the people caught injuries daily.

In 1941 he directed the first Agfacolor film Women Are Better Diplomats.

His first wife was Edith Meller, but in 1940, he met Marika Rökk.

He shot "Die Czardasfürstin" (1933) and "Der letzte Walzer" (1934), than he worked together with Marika Rökk for the first time for the movie "Heisses Blut" (1936). They got married in 1940 and from now on they belonged to the most successful pairs which also owed their successes to the great music of the composers Peter Kreuder and Franz Grothe.

His involvement with large-budget Italian epic Quo Vadis (1924), which was a critical and commercial disaster, damaged his reputation.

In 1923 he gave Marlene Dietrich her film debut, casting her in a small role in The Little Napoleon (1923).

In 1922, he made So sind die Männer (1923) ("The Little Napoleon"), in which Marlene Dietrich had a bit part.

After 1919, he was only a film director.

Georg Jacoby was an actor, film and theatre director. He started to play on stage in 1915 and in cinema in WWI propaganda films.

Before Georg Jacoby became a director he worked for a short time as an actor and made his debut in 1913 in "Buckelhannes".