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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.

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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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