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Wera Engels

Wera Engels

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Born May 12, 1909 in Kiel, Germany

Died November 16, 1988

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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 and the silent movie super star Mary Pickford became best friends. 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, she dated Gary Cooper for a while but married the Lithuanian-born actor/writer Ivan Lebedeff. After Lebedeff's death in 1953 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.

She died on November 16, 1988 (age 79) in Munich, Germany.

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Talking About Jacqueline Poster

Talking About Jacqueline Feature Film1937Jacqueline Topelius

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Stjenka Rasin Feature Film1936Prinzessin Dolgoruki

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Hong Kong Nights Feature Film1935Trina Vidor

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Sweepstake Annie Feature Film1935Baroness Yvonne Baritska

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The Great Impersonation Feature Film1935Princess Stephanie Elderstrom

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Together We Live Feature Film1935Sonia

Fugitive Road Poster

Fugitive Road Feature Film1934Sonya Valinoff

The Great Jasper Poster

The Great Jasper Feature Film1933Norma McGowd

Lumpenkavaliere Feature Film1932Diebin

The Ringer Poster

The Ringer Feature Film1932Cora Ann Milton

Kinder des Glücks Feature Film1931

L'anglais tel qu'on le parle Poster

L'anglais tel qu'on le parle Feature Film1931Miss Betty Hogson

Le parfum de la dame en noir Poster

Le parfum de la dame en noir Feature Film1931Edith Rance

Der Greifer Poster

Der Greifer Feature Film1930Mabel

The Streets of London Feature Film1929Alida

Befehl zur Ehe Poster

Befehl zur Ehe Feature Film1928Zofe Hella

Das Spreewaldmädel Poster

Das Spreewaldmädel Feature Film1928

Fighting the White Slave Traffic Poster

Fighting the White Slave Traffic Feature Film1927Irene Wendtland

Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein? Feature Film1927Ellen Shiffer, seine Tochter

Lützows wilde verwegene Jagd Poster

Lützows wilde verwegene Jagd Feature Film1927Eleanore Prochaska, ein Bürgermädchen

Mädchenhandel - Eine internationale Gefahr Poster

Mädchenhandel - Eine internationale Gefahr Feature Film1927Irene Wendtland

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