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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.
Born
Wednesday, 12 May 1909
Died
Wednesday, 16 November 1988
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Talking About Jacqueline | Jacqueline Topelius | 1937 |
Stjenka Rasin | Prinzessin Dolgoruki | 1936 |
The Great Impersonation | Princess Stephanie Elderstrom | 1935 |
Hong Kong Nights | Trina Vidor | 1935 |
Together We Live | Sonia | 1935 |
Sweepstake Annie | Baroness Yvonne Baritska | 1935 |
Fugitive Road | Sonya Valinoff | 1934 |
The Great Jasper | Norma McGowd | 1933 |
Lumpenkavaliere | Diebin | 1932 |
The Ringer | Cora Ann Milton | 1932 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Talking About Jacqueline | Jacqueline Topelius | 1937 |
Stjenka Rasin | Prinzessin Dolgoruki | 1936 |
The Great Impersonation | Princess Stephanie Elderstrom | 1935 |
Hong Kong Nights | Trina Vidor | 1935 |
Together We Live | Sonia | 1935 |
Sweepstake Annie | Baroness Yvonne Baritska | 1935 |
Fugitive Road | Sonya Valinoff | 1934 |
The Great Jasper | Norma McGowd | 1933 |
Lumpenkavaliere | Diebin | 1932 |
The Ringer | Cora Ann Milton | 1932 |
Kinder des Glücks | 1931 | |
L'anglais tel qu'on le parle | Miss Betty Hogson | 1931 |
Le parfum de la dame en noir | Edith Rance | 1931 |
Der Greifer | Mabel (German Version) / Mabel | 1930 |
Das Spreewaldmädel | 1928 | |
Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein? | Ellen Shiffer, seine Tochter / Ellen Shiffer | 1927 |
Lützows wilde verwegene Jagd | Eleanore Prochaska, ein Bürgermädchen | 1927 |
Mädchenhandel - Eine internationale Gefahr | Irene Wendtland | 1927 |
Fighting the White Slave Traffic | Irene Wendtland | 1927 |