Nora Gregor (3 February 1901 – 20 January 1949) was an Austrian stage and film actress. Contents 1Biography 2Career 3Filmography 4Names and Styles 5References 6External links Biography She was born Eleonora Hermina Gregor in Görz, a town which then belonged to Austria-Hungary but is now part of Italy, to Austrian parents. Her first husband was Mitja Nikisch, a pianist and son
Dita Parlo (born Grethe Gerda Kornstädt or Gerda Olga Justine Kornstädt; 4 September 1908 – 12 December 1971) was a German actress. Contents 1Early life and career 2Personal life and death 3In popular culture 4Filmography 5References 6External links Early life and career Dita Parlo was born on 4 September 1908 in Stettin, Pomerania, then in the German Empire. Sources
Marie Magdalene “Marlene” Dietrich 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992 was a German-born American actress and singer. Her career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s. In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich performed on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in Josef von Sternberg’s The Blue Angel (1930) brought her international acclaim and a contract with Paramount Pictures. Dietrich starred in many Hollywood films
Carola Neher (born Karola Neher; 2 November 1900 – 26 June 1942) was a German actress and singer. Contents 1Biography 2Burial 3Filmography 4Legacy 5Literature 6References 7External links Biography This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: “Carola Neher” – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2017) (Learn how and when to remove
Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer; 18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States. In the German-speaking and classical music world, she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her first husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language cinema, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a
Rosa Valetti (25 January 1876, Berlin, Germany – 10 December 1937, Vienna, Austria), born Rosa Alice Vallentin, was a German actress, cabaret performer, and singer. Contents 1Biography 2Selected filmography 3Notes 4Sources 5External links Biography Rosa Valetti was born in Berlin, the daughter of industrialist Felix Vallentin and sister of actor Hermann Vallentin. She played her first roles in the theatres of suburban
Nicolina Dijjers Spanier (5 November 1909 – after March 1982), known professionally as Lien Deyers, was a Dutch actress based in Germany. Contents 1Early life 2Career 3Later years 4Filmography 5Bibliography 6References 7External links Early life Nicolina Dijjers Spanier was born in Amsterdam on 5 November 1909, the daughter of Nathan Spanier, a piano teacher (1857–1916), and
Brigitte Helm (born Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm, 17 March 1908 – 11 June 1996) was a German actress, best remembered for her dual role as Maria and her double, the Maschinenmensch, in Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent film Metropolis. Contents 1Career 2Selected filmography 3References 4External links Career Born Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm in Berlin, Helm’s first role was that of Maria
Margarete Schön (born Margarethe Schippang; 7 April 1895 – 26 December 1985) was a German stage and film actress whose career spanned nearly fifty years. She is best known internationally for her role as Kriemhild in director Fritz Lang’s Die Nibelungen series of two silent fantasy films, Die Nibelungen: Siegfried and Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge. Contents 1Stage career 2Film career 3Personal life 4Selected filmography 5References 6External links Stage career Born
Greta Schröder (27 June 1892 – 8 June 1980) was a German actress. She is best known for the role of Thomas Hutter’s wife and Count Orlok’s victim in Nosferatu (1922). In the fictionalized 2000 film Shadow of the Vampire, she is portrayed as having been a famous actress during the making of Nosferatu, but in fact she was little known. The bulk