Elisabeth Bergner
Elisabeth Bergner (born Elisabeth Ettel; 22 August 1897 – 12 May 1986) was a European 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 Escape Me Never, a play written for her by Margaret Kennedy. Bergner, known in Europe as La Bergner, played Gemma first in London, and then made her Broadway debut with the role in 1935. She later repeated it in a film version, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1943, Bergner returned to Broadway in the play The Two Mrs. Carrolls, for which she was awarded the Distinguished Performance Medal by the Drama League.
Cry of the Banshee
as OonaIn seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the...
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Love
as Herzogin von LangeaisBased on Honore de Balzac’s story of Madame de Langeais. Costume drama about the infamous loves...
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Fräulein Else
as Else ThalhofWhile staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her...
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Ariane
as Ariane KusnetzowaAriane was Hungarian director Paul Czinner's first talking picture. Starring in the title role...
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The Pedestrian
as Frau LilienthalWhen a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start...
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The Rise of Catherine the Great
as CatherineThe woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she...
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Strogoff
as MotherA captain in the Czar's army encounters danger and romance while carrying a secret message...
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Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture
as Self - IntervieweeThe film tells the cultural story of Berlin during the Weimar Republic through interviews with a...
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Der Evangelimann
as MagdalenaMathias, the evangelist, is in love with Martha. Johannes, Mathias brother tries to interfere....
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Husbands or Lovers
as NjuA wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly...
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Paris Calling
as Marianne JannetierMarianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government...
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Stolen Life
as Sylvina Lawrence / Martina LawrenceAdapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for...
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As You Like It
as RosalindFilm version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the...
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Lady Juan
as uncreditedA Spanish nobleman raises his only daughter as a boy, similarly to Greta Garbo in Queen...
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Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
as Self"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director,...
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Dreaming Lips
as Gaby LawrenceDreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his...
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Escape Me Never
as Gemma JonesRomantic quadrangle involving two brothers, one a burgeoning ballet composer; a willful heiress;...
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Dreaming Lips
as GabyThe young Gaby is happily married to the musician Peter but cannot ignore the impression that...
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Impetuous Youth
as ReneeGirl dressed up as a boy falls in love with a painter.
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