Konrad Tom
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Konrad Tom born Konrad Runowiecki, a Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 Jewish actor, writer, singer and director, born in Warsaw. Wrote song lyrics in Polish and in Yiddish for stage, film and cabaret, including szmonces. His wife was actress Zula Pogorzelska.

"Yiddish talkies were not only comparable to those of the Polish mainstream but were produced by the same people. Indeed, the most successful Yiddish talkies were directed by established industry figures including Waszynski, Ford, Henryk Szaro, Jan Nowina-Przybina, Leon Trystan, and Konrad Tom."


Screenplays:
  • Antek policmajster 1935 (with Emanuel Schlechter
    Emanuel Schlechter
    Schlechter, Emanuel was a Polish-Jewish artist.Schlechter was born and died in Lviv. He was a Polish Jewish lyricist, librettist, writer, satirist, translator, composer and director. He studied at the Faculty of Law of the Jan Kazimierz University in Lvov and worked briefly at a law firm...

    )
  • Ada, to nie wypada 1936
  • Bolek i Lolek and Dodek na froncie, 1936, both starred Adolf Dymsza, music Henryk Wars
    Henryk Wars
    Henryk Wars was a Polish and later American pop music composer. He wrote the music for 50 films in the interwar period in Poland and sixty more in the United States...

     and Wladyslaw Dan
  • Judel gra na skrzypcach 1936
  • Yidl mitn fidl (Molly Picon
    Molly Picon
    Molly Picon was an American actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a lyricist and dramatic storyteller....

     starred)
  • Ksiazatko 1937
  • Abenteuer in Warschau 1938
  • Mamele - Molly Picon
    Molly Picon
    Molly Picon was an American actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a lyricist and dramatic storyteller....

     movie, Yiddish 1938, music director Ivo Wesby
    Ivo Wesby
    Ivo Wesby , born in Krakow, Poland, was a composer and director. He studied music in Vienna. In the 1920s he was music director of various revi-teaters in Warsaw, and in the last years before the outbreak of World War II he led the well known Groyse Revie ...

  • Wlóczegi 1939
  • Wielka droga 1946


Song lyrics:
  • Kocha, lubi, szanuje (with Emanuel Schlechter
    Emanuel Schlechter
    Schlechter, Emanuel was a Polish-Jewish artist.Schlechter was born and died in Lviv. He was a Polish Jewish lyricist, librettist, writer, satirist, translator, composer and director. He studied at the Faculty of Law of the Jan Kazimierz University in Lvov and worked briefly at a law firm...

    , performed by Mieczyslaw Fogg)
  • Nic o tobie nie wiem (with Emanuel Schlechter
    Emanuel Schlechter
    Schlechter, Emanuel was a Polish-Jewish artist.Schlechter was born and died in Lviv. He was a Polish Jewish lyricist, librettist, writer, satirist, translator, composer and director. He studied at the Faculty of Law of the Jan Kazimierz University in Lvov and worked briefly at a law firm...

    , music Henryk Wars
    Henryk Wars
    Henryk Wars was a Polish and later American pop music composer. He wrote the music for 50 films in the interwar period in Poland and sixty more in the United States...

    )
  • Zlociste wloski, Tyle milosci performed by Eugeniusz Bodo
    Eugeniusz Bodo
    Eugeniusz Bodo was a film director, producer and one of the most popular Polish actors and comedians of the inter-war period. He starred in some of the most popular Polish film productions of the 1930s, including His Excellency, The Shop Assistant, Czy Lucyna to dziewczyna? and Pieśniarz Warszawy...

  • Madame Loulou to music by Harry Waldau
    Harry Waldau
    Harry Waldau , born in Legnica, Poland, died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Jewish pianist, composer and lyricist....



Actor:
  • 1932 – Sto metrów milosci
  • 1933 – Jego ekscelencja subiekt
  • 1933 – Romeo i Julcia
  • 1934 – Co mój maz robi w nocy
  • 1935 – ABC milosci
  • 1935 – Antek policmajster
  • 1935 – Wacus
  • 1937 – Pani minister tanczy
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