Gérard Carlier
Gérard Carlier | |
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![]() Carlier (left) with Irène Élisabeth Reinert and Joe Hajos | |
Born | 20 December 1905 |
Died | 7 November 1975 (aged 69) |
Other names | Gerd Karlick |
Occupation | Writer |
Years active | 1939-1966 (film) |
Gérard Carlier (1905–1975), born Eugen Artur Gerhard "Gerd" Karlick was a German-born French songwriter and screenwriter.[1] He wrote songs for the Comedian Harmonists in Berlin, then moved to France and worked on several scripts for films starring the comedian Fernandel in the postwar era.
Selected songs
- "Ich hab für Dich 'nen Blumentopf bestellt" (Bootz/Karlick) – 1930
- "Wie schnell vergißt man, was einmal war" (Bootz/Karlick) – 1931
- "Reg' Dich nicht auf, wenn mal was schief geht" (Bootz/Karlick) – 1931
- "Hasch' mich, mein Liebling, hasch' mich" (Glanzberg/Karlick) – 1931
- "Einmal wird Dein Herz mir gehören" (Glanzberg/Karlick) – 1931
- "Schöne Isabella aus Kastilien" (Bootz/Karlick) – 1932
- "Die ersten Blumen im Mai" (Tango) – 1932
- "Ich bin so scharf auf Erika" (Foxtrot) (Bootz/Karlick)
- "Wenn die Sonja russisch tanzt"
Selected filmography
- Three from St Cyr (1939)
- The Blue Danube (1940)
- Dorothy Looks for Love (1945)
- Dropped from Heaven (1946)
- Judicial Error (1948)
- Brilliant Waltz (1949)
- The Heroic Monsieur Boniface (1949)
- Emile the African (1949)
- Fandango (1949)
- Casimir (1950)
- Rendezvous in Grenada (1951)
- The Sleepwalker (1951)
- My Wife, My Cow and Me (1952)
- The Last Robin Hood (1953)
- April Fools' Day (1954)
- Fernandel the Dressmaker (1956)
- Good King Dagobert (1963)
- Mathias Sandorf (1963)
- Four Queens for an Ace (1966)
References
- ^ Van Heuckelom p.266
Bibliography
- Kris Van Heuckelom. Polish Migrants in European Film 1918–2017. Springer, 2019.
- Georg Maria von Coellen. Texte und Musik nach Maß. Gerd Karlick in Der Artist, No. 2569 vol 14. March 1935.
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