About

Known credits:
18
Birthday:
1909-05-12
Place of birth:
Kiel, Germany
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Wera Engels

Overview

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.

Known for

Acting
1937 Talking About Jacqueline Actor Jacqueline Topelius 58
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1936 Stjenka Rasin Actor Prinzessin Dolgoruki N/A
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1935 Hong Kong Nights Actor Trina Vidor 58
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1935 The Great Impersonation Actor Princess Stephanie Elderstrom N/A
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1935 Together We Live Actor Sonia N/A
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1935 Sweepstake Annie Actor Baroness Yvonne Baritska 58
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1934 Fugitive Road Actor Sonya Valinoff N/A
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1933 The Great Jasper Actor Norma McGowd N/A
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1931 Lucky children Actor N/A
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1931 Scent of the Woman in Black Actor Edith Rance 59
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1931 English as it is spoken Actor N/A
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1930 The Gripper Actor Mabel 59
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1928 Befehl zur Ehe Actor N/A
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1928 The Girl from Spree Woods Actor N/A
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1927 Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein? Actor Ellen Shiffer N/A
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1927 Lützow's Wild Hunt Actor N/A
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1927 Mädchenhandel - Eine internationale Gefahr Actor Irene Wendtland N/A
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1927 Fighting the White Slave Traffic Actor Irene Wendtland N/A
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