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Tala Birell

 
Actor: Tala Birell
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  • Born: Sep 10, 1908 in Vienna, Austria (or Bucharest Rumania)
  • Died: 1959 in Eastern Europe
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '30s-'40s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Crime
  • Career Highlights: Crime and Punishment, The Purple Heart, Philo Vance's Secret Mission
  • First Major Screen Credit: Menschen im Kaefig (1930)

Biography

Personally selected by Austrian entrepreneur Max Reinhardt as a candidate for stage stardom, Viennese actress Tala Birrell made her film bow in such German productions as The Doomed Batallion (1931). Hollywood producers, unfortunately, could not see beyond Tala's exotic mittel-European accent. When she was brought to Tinseltown in 1933, she was ballyhooed as "the new Garbo," a commodity that was a glut on the market at the time. Wasted in secondary roles in such films as Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Song of Bernadette (1943) and The Power of the Whistler (1945), Ms. Birrell retired, returning to Europe as soon as it was politically feasible. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Tala Birell
Born Natalie Bierl
September, 1907
Bucharest, Romania
Died February 17, 1958, aged 50
Landstuhl, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Occupation Film actress
Years active 1926–1955

Tala Birell (September 10, 1907 – February 17, 1958) was a Romanian - American stage and film actress.

Star of stage in Europe, she became popular in American film.

She is buried in the Bavarian village Marquartstein in a family tomb.

Filmography

  • Flash Gordon .... Queen of Cygini (1 episode, 1955)
  • Homicide for Three (1948) .... Rita Brown
  • Women in the Night (1948) .... Yvette Aubert
  • Song of Love (1947) .... Princess Valerie Hohenfels
  • Philo Vance's Secret Mission (1947) .... Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips
  • Philo Vance's Gamble (1947) .... Tina Cromwell
  • Dangerous Millions (1946) .... Sonia Bardos
  • Girls of the Big House (1945) .... Alma, confined murderess
  • The Frozen Ghost (1945) .... Valerie Monet
  • The Power of the Whistler (1945) .... Constantina Ivaneska
  • Jungle Queen (1945) .... Dr. Elise Bork
  • Mrs. Parkington (1944) .... Lady Nora Ebbsworth
  • Till We Meet Again (1944) (uncredited) .... Mme. Bouchard
  • Make Your Own Bed (1944) .... Miss Marie Gruber
  • The Monster Maker (1944) .... Maxine
  • The Purple Heart (1944) .... Johanna Hartwig
  • The Song of Bernadette (1943) (uncredited) .... Madame Leontine Bruat
  • Women in Bondage (1943) .... Ruth Bracken
  • Isle of Forgotten Sins (1943) .... Christine
  • China .... Blonde
  • One Dangerous Night (1943) .... Sonia Budenny
  • Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1942) .... Baroness
  • Josette (1938) .... Mlle. Josette
  • Invisible Enemy (1938) .... Sandra Kamarov
  • Bringing Up Baby (1938) .... Mrs. Lehman
  • As Good as Married (1937) .... Princess Cherry Bouladoff
  • She's Dangerous (1937) .... Stephanie Duval
  • White Legion (1936) .... Dr. Sterne
  • The Lone Wolf Returns (1935) .... Liane Mallison
  • Crime and Punishment (1935) .... Antonya Raskolnikov
  • Spring Tonic (1935) .... Lola
  • Air Hawks (1935) .... Renee Dupont
  • Let's Live Tonight (1935) .... Countess Margot de Legere
  • The Captain Hates the Sea (1934) .... Gerta Klargi
  • Let's Fall in Love (1933) .... Hedwig Forsell
  • Nagana (1933) .... Countess Sandra Lubeska
  • The Doomed Battalion (1932) .... Maria Di Mai
  • Meine Cousine aus Warschau (1931) .... Lucienne
  • Liebe auf Befehl (1931) .... Marie-Anne
  • Menschen im Käfig (1930) .... Eileen Kell
  • Die Tat des Andreas Harmer (1930) .... Othmars Valentin's Gattin
  • Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe (1926) (as Thala Birell) .... Bit Role

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