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Elisabeth Bergner
22 August 1897
Elisabeth Bergner played in 3 movies in the Biography, Drama, Music, Horror, Thriller genres.
Elisabeth Bergner got succeed with average imdb rating 6.1.
Elisabeth Bergner made her come out in Innsbruck in 1915. After working in Z?rich, Vienna (where she posed as a model benefit of the well talented but deeply unhappy sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck who level madly in love with her) and Munich she came to Berlin in 1921. She played in productions by 'Max Reinhardt' (qv) and became a general actress. In 1923 she made her overlay appear in _Der Evangelimann (1924)_ (qv). In 1924 'Paul Czinner' (qv) gave her a role in _Nju - Eine unverstandene Frau (192... 4)_ (qv). This was the beginning of a celebrated collaboration in professional as well as private soldier life. Since they were both Jews they emigrated to London (where they married) and in 1940 to the USA. Their flicks _The Rise of Catherine the Smashing (1934)_ (qv) was forbidden in Germany because there were Jews in it. Her responsibility as Gemma Jones in _Emanate Me Never (1935)_ (qv) earned her an Oscar nomination for Crush Actress. Bergner's Hollywood movie _Paris Area of expertise (1941)_ (qv) failed to allure publicity. After the conflict she worked in New York until she returned to England in 1950 and to Germany in 1954. She performed in theaters and in 1961 she returned to the movies. In 1970 she made her launch as a head. Her last stage appearance took place in 1973. In 1979 Elisabeth Bergner received the Ernst Lubitsch Prize and in 1982 the Eleonora Duse Prize Asolo. In Steglitz (Berlin) a conurbation park was named after her. In 1987 her memoirs were published.Read more Less