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3 unusual facts about Paul Leni


Leopold Jessner

Hintertreppe (German for Backstairs), Jessner's first film (co-directed with Paul Leni), highlighted Jessner's use of these heavily stylised staircases.

Paul Leni

The film had a great influence over Universal's later classic "haunted house" horror series, and was subsequently remade several times, notably in 1939 with Bob Hope.

Leni designed short prologues for festive film premieres in Berlin cinemas, such as Lubitsch's Forbidden Paradise (1924), Herbert Brenon's Peter Pan (1924), and E. A. Dupont's Variety (1925).



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