Curt Goetz was regarded as one of the most brilliant German comedy writers of his time.
11 Facts About Curt Goetz
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Curt Goetz was a distant relative of Irish writer George Bernard Shaw, to whom he was often compared.
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In 1906 Curt Goetz graduated from City High School in Halle, where he played Franz Moor in The Robbers by Schiller.
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Curt Goetz's mother remarried, and his stepfather encouraged and financed Goetz's first steps in the theatre.
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Curt Goetz played at theatres in Nuremberg, then went to Berlin.
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Curt Goetz continued acting in silent movies, mainly comedies such as Ich mochte kein Mann sein, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
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Curt Goetz worked with director Reinhold Schunzel and others, and several of his comedies become films.
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Curt Goetz was signed by MGM and worked on a number of film scripts.
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In California, Curt Goetz drafted his tale Tatjana and a new version of his Hokuspokus.
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Curt Goetz reworked an older play into The House in Montevideo, which he successfully produced in Broadway's Playhouse Theatre in 1945.
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Curt Goetz died in Grabs, St Gallen, on 12 September 1960.