Actors - Wera Engels

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Wera Engels (May 12, 1909 in Kiel, Germany—November 16, 1988 in Epfach, Germany) was a German actress, who had a short but very eventful film career.

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 Potsdam-Babelsberg as well as in France, Wera Engels was invited to Hollywood. Producers saw her as a cheap alternative of Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. She was contracted with RKO. Engels was given roles under Walter Futter and M.H. Hoffman, whose productions would nowadays be considered B-productions at best. She became best friends with the silent movie super star Mary Pickford (with whom she shares her final resting place in the Hollywood cementry). By 1935 she returned back to Germany, but left soon thereafter, because of the decline of the German movie industrie caused by the Nazi propaganda machine. Back in Hollywood Wera Engels married the Lithuanian-born actor/writer Ivan Lebedeff. After Lebedeff's death in 1958 (he died of Angina pectoris), Wera Engels 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 together with Erna Hoffmann (widow of Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's friend and personal photographer) in the Munich area.

Filmography of Wera Engels

1937 Man spricht über Jacqueline Actor: Jacqueline Topelius
1936 Wolga Wolga Actor
1935 Sweepstake Annie Actor
1935 Together We Live Actor: Sonia
1935 Hong Kong Nights Actor: Trina Vidor
1935 The Great Impersonation Actor
1934 Fugitive Road Actor
1933 The Great Jasper Actor
1932 Lumpenkavaliere Actor
1932 Der Hexer Actor
1931 Kinder des Gluecks Actor
1930 Der Greifer Actor
1930 Le Parfum de la dame en Noir Actor
1930 L'anglais tel qu'on le parle Actor
1929 The Streets of London Actor
1928 Spreewaldmaedel Actor
1927 Luetzows wilde verwegene Jagd Actor
1927 Du hast geliebt am schoenen Rhein Actor
1926 Maedchenhandel Actor

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