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The Love Affairs of Hector Dalmore

1921 film by Richard Oswald

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ14949887 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Love Affairs of Hector Dalmore (German: Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore) is a 1921 German silent drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Conrad Veidt, Erna Morena, and Kitty Moran. It premiered in Berlin on 22 February 1921.

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Bibliography

Grange, William (2008). Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5967-8.

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“The Love Affairs of Hector Dalmore” enters the record as 1921 film by Richard Oswald. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Love, Affairs and Hector can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1921, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1921-02-22. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Love, Affairs and Hector.
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“The Love Affairs of Hector Dalmore” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Love, Affairs and Hector provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14949887. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1921 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Love Affairs of Hector Dalmore” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.