Elisabeth Bergner
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Elisabeth Bergner | |
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Died | 12 May 1986 , England | (aged 88)
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1924–1984 |
Spouse | [2] |
Elisabeth Bergner (22 August 1897 – 12 May 1986) was an Austrian-British actress. Primarily a stage actress, her career flourished in Berlin and Paris before she moved to London to work in films. Her signature role was Gemma Jones in
Life and career
She was born Ella vel Ettel Bergner in
She first acted on stage at age 14, and appeared in Innsbruck a year later. In Vienna at age 16, she toured Austrian and German provinces with a Shakespearean company. She worked as an artist's model, posing for sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck, who fell in love with her. She eventually moved to Munich and later Berlin.[9]
In 1923, she made her film debut in Der Evangelimann. With the rise of
She was nominated for an
Bergner temporarily returned to Germany in 1954, where she acted in movies and on the stage; the Berlin district of
Death
She later moved to London, where she died, aged 88, from cancer.[11] She was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium on 15 May 1986, where she is commemorated with an oval memorial tablet in the West Cloister.
All About Eve
According to
Literary references
The character of Dora Martin in the novel Mephisto by Klaus Mann reportedly is based on her.[13]
Bibliography
- Anne Jespersen: Toedliche Wahrheit oder raffinierte Taeuschung. "Die Frauen in den Filmen Elisabeth Bergners" in Michael Omasta, Brigitte Mayr, Christian Cargnelli (eds.): Carl Mayer, Scenarist: Ein Script von ihm war schon ein Film – "A script by ISBN 978-3-901644-10-8(in German and English)
Partial filmography
- The Evangelist (1924) - Magdalena
- Husbands or Lovers (1924) - Nju
- The Fiddler of Florence (1926) - Renée
- Liebe (1927) - Herzogin von Langeais
- Doña Juana (1928) - Doña Juana
- Fräulein Else (1929) - Else Thalhof
- Ariane (1931) - Ariane Kusnetzowa
- Dreaming Lips (1932) - Gaby
- The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934) - Catherine
- Escape Me Never (1935) - Gemma Jones
- As You Like It (1936) - Rosalind
- Dreaming Lips (1937) - Gaby Lawrence
- Stolen Life (1939) - Sylvina Lawrence / Martina Lawrence
- 49th Parallel (1941) - Anna (replaced by Glynis Johns) (scenes deleted)
- Paris Calling (1941) - Marianne Jannetier
- The Happy Years of the Thorwalds (1962) - Frau Thorwald
- Cry of the Banshee (1970) - Oona
- Strogoff (1970) - Marfa Strogoff
- The Pedestrian (1973) - Frau Lilienthal
- The Pentecost Outing (1978) - Margarete Johannsen
- High Society Limited (1982) - Else
See also
- List of German-speaking Academy Award winners and nominees
- List of actors with Academy Award nominations
References
- ^ "Birth certificate of Elisabeth Bergner giving forename as "Ella vel Ettel"". Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ "Elisabeth Bergner". Nndb.com. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
- ^ Biography (1943), playbill.com. Accessed 13 December 2016.
- ^ "Broadway Show Log". The Billboard. Vol. 56, no. 20. Nielsen Business Media. 13 May 1944. p. 29. Retrieved 2 December 2017 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Birth certificate of Elisabeth Bergner". Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ Elisabeth Ettel background, books.google.ca; accessed March 6, 2015.
- ^ Bergner profile, books.google.ca. Accessed 6 March 2015.
- ^ Profile, Haaretz.com. Accessed 6 March 2015.
- ^ a b c Profile, jwa.org. Accessed 6 March 2015.
- ^ Bergner in The Duchess of Malfi, nytimes.com. Accessed 21 March 2023.
- ^ "Elisabeth Bergner, an Actress in Plays and Films, Dies at 85". The New York Times. 13 May 1986. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
- ^ Mephisto Archived 3 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Rowohlt.de; accessed 18 May 2015.(in German)