Adina Mandlová

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Adina Mandlová
Born
Jarmila Anna Františka Marie Mandlová

(1910-01-28)28 January 1910
Mladá Boleslav, Austria-Hungary
Died16 June 1991(1991-06-16) (aged 81)
Příbram, Czechoslovakia
NationalityCzech
OccupationActress
Birth house of Adina Mandlová in Mladá Boleslav

Adina Mandlová (28 January 1910 – 16 June 1991) was a Czech stage and film actress. She was one of the leading stars of 1930s and 1940s Czech cinema. She was involved in a number of scandals and love affairs.

Life and career

Early days

She was born Jarmila Anna Františka Marie Mandlová in a middle-class family in

Spanish influenza. After his death her mother made Adina stop playing the piano. The family struggled financially, so her mother was stealing food from their neighbour Václav Klement's garden. After that her mother rented rooms in their house to students. Adina was sent to study at a boarding school in France at Paris, but was expelled before graduation.[1] She got pregnant there and had an abortion.[1] She returned home and become a secretary. Her film career started in 1932 thanks to a small part in film Děvčátko, neříkej ne!, where she performed as a model. In 1932 she met an actor Hugo Haas, who became her partner. He cast her in his movie Life Is a Dog in 1933.[2] She worked as a model for a fashion designer Ulli Rosenbaum.[1] Haas made her to refuse the main role in Gustav Machatý's movie Ecstasy (1933), which made Hedy Lamarr famous.[1]
They broke up in 1937. The movie Holka nebo kluk? (1938) was commercially very successful and made her the leading actress in Czechoslovakia.

Stardom

In the late 1930s and early 1940s she made her best movies by her own account –

concentration camp and she learned he planned to stay with his wife, she suffered a miscarriage. Nevertheless, she helped to hide Šméral until the end of the war when he escaped from the concentration camp.[1] After the war Mandlová was arrested for suspicion she had become a German citizen. She was charged with collaboration and after two months sentenced to the time served.[2]

Career in UK

She was offered a role in

Radio Free Europe and later as a secretary of a fashion designer Ben Pearson, whom she married in 1954. During the 1960s, she had small roles in the British TV shows Ghost Squad (in the episode "Rich Ruby Wine") and The Saint (in the episode "The Rhine Maiden") and continued acting in theatres.[2]
She also started sculpting.

Later years

Afterwards, she retired with Pearson to Malta, where she wrote her autobiography Dnes se tomu směju in 1977. In 1981 they moved to Canada. After the death of her husband, Mandlová, already very ill, moved back to Czechoslovkia in 1991.

She died on 16 June 1991.[2]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Miroslav Šiška (4 February 2010). "Sláva, zvraty a pád Adiny Mandlové". Novinky (in Czech). Archived from the original on 7 January 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d "Adina Mandlová". Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (in Czech).

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