The Marriage of Maria Braun film "Lili Marleen" with Hanna Schygulla in the main role. Horst Wendlandt would produce the two other films in the BRD Trilogy, "Lola" and "Veronika Voss". His success also allowed him to realize his last project, "Querelle" which was co-financed by Gaumont. As Fengler had oversold the rights to the film, the profit share of Fassbinder was an open question. Eckelkamp saw himself as the sole owner of all rights, but sent a check in the amount of 70,000 DM to Fassbinder in 1982 to appease the director. After Fassbinder's death his mother and heiress Liselotte Eder revived the claims,
Mel Ferrer Mexico to work on a novel, "Tito's Hat" published in 1940. Ferrer was contracted to Columbia Pictures as a director along with several other "potentials" who began as dialogue directors: Fred Sears, William Castle, Henry Levin and Robert Gordon. Among the films he worked on were "Louisiana Hayride" (1944), "They Live in Fear" (1944), "Sergeant Mike" (1944), "Together Again" (1944), "Meet Miss Bobby Socks" (1944), "Let's Go Steady" (1944), "Ten Cents a Dance" (1945), and "A Thousand and One Nights" (1945). Some of these were Bs but others – such as 'Thousand and One Nights" – were more prestigious. Ferrer