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Dancing Vienna
Dancing Vienna (German: Das tanzende Wien) is a 1927 German silent film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Ben Lyon and Alfred Abel. The film's art direction was by Andrej Andrejew, Ferdinand Bellan and Erich Kettelhut. It was one of several prototypes of the Heimatfilm made by Zelnik in the 1920s. The film was intended as a loose sequel to Zelnik's "The Blue Danube" (1926).
Cast.
- Lya Mara as Komtesse Frizzi Zirsky
- Ben Lyon
bananas. Her dancing was a large success to the German press with her extravagant jungle interpretation surrounded by a cast of 200. The revue was taken to the Apollotheater in Vienna for the winter before being rearranged into a new version with skimpier costumes and more American performers such as Ben Tyber and Louis Douglas under the name, "Wissen Sie Schon" opening in March 1927 and running for another three months. she appeared in the tableau 'Der Gott und Die Bajadere', dancing completely nude except for a silver loincloth in front