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Wera Engels

 
Actor: Wera Engels
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  • Born: May 12, 1909 in Kiel, Germany
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '30s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Action
  • Career Highlights: Hong Kong Nights, Sweepstake Annie, Man Spricht Uber Jacqueline
  • First Major Screen Credit: Hong Kong Nights (1935)

Biography

A hauntingly beautiful German actress, brunette Wera Engels was entirely misused by Hollywood producers who only saw her as a bargain-basement version of Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. Under contract to RKO, Engels found herself lent to such Poverty Row entrepreneurs as Walter Futter and M.H. Hoffman, whose productions were fodder for the neighborhood grind-houses. She'd had enough by 1935 and returned to Germany. Engels was at one point the wife of yet another Hollywood import, the Lithuanian-born Ivan Lebedeff. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
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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.

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

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Biography for Wera Engels". IMDb. http://imdb.com/name/nm0257313/bio. Retrieved 2007-10-09. 
  2. ^ a b c "Wera Engels". IMDb. http://imdb.com/name/nm0257313/. Retrieved 2007-10-09. 

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