Wera Engels
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| Wera Engels | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1909-05-12[1] Kiel, Germany[1] |
| Died | 1988-11-16[1] Epfach[citation needed], Germany[1] |
| Occupation | actress[2] |
| Years active | 1926-1937[2] |
| Spouse(s) | Ivan Lebedeff[1] |
Wera Engels was a German actress.
Wera Engels was a daughter of a German Admiral and Governor of the then German colony Tsing-tau-China. After successful leading roles in productions of the well-established German UFA-studios in Babelsberg as well as in France, Engels was invited to Hollywood. Producers saw her as a cheap alternative to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. She was contracted with RKO. Engels was given roles under Walter Futter and M.H. Hoffman. She became best friends with the silent movie super star Mary Pickford. By 1935 she returned to Germany, but left soon thereafter, because of the decline of the German movie industry caused by the Nazi propaganda machine. Back in Hollywood Engels married the Lithuanian-born actor/writer Ivan Lebedeff. After Lebedeff's death in 1958 of Angina pectoris, she moved back to Europe, where she stayed with several friends in London and Stockholm before she went back to Germany. She lived the rest of her life with Erna Hoffmann (widow of Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's friend and personal photographer) in the Munich area.
[edit] Filmography[2]
- 1927 Mädchenhandel - Eine internationale Gefahr
- 1927 Luetzows wilde verwegene Jagd
- 1927 Du hast geliebt am schoenen Rhein?
- 1928 Das Spreewaldmädel
- 1928 Befehl zur Ehe
- 1929 The Streets of London
- 1930 L'anglais tel qu'on le parle
- 1930 Der Greifer
- 1931 Le parfum de la dame en noir
- 1931 Kinder des Glücks
- 1932 Der Hexer
- 1932 Lumpenkavaliere
- 1933 The Great Jasper
- 1934 Fugitive Road
- 1935 Sweepstake Annie
- 1935 Together We Live
- 1935 The Great Impersonation
- 1935 Hong Kong Nights
- 1936 Wolga-Wolga
- 1937 Man spricht über Jacqueline
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Wera Engels at the Internet Movie Database
- Photos This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.
- [1] This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.
