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Wera Engels
Acting

Wera Engels
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1909-05-12,Kiel, Germany
Gender
Female
Biography
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.

Filmography

Together We Live

7

Together We Live
1935-08-16

English as it is spoken

7

English as it is spoken
1931-06-12

Scent of the Woman in Black

5.667

Scent of the Woman in Black
1931-11-06

Hong Kong Nights

5.667

Hong Kong Nights
1935-12-23

Sweepstake Annie

4.8

Sweepstake Annie
1935-01-29

6

Fugitive Road
1934-08-22

Talking About Jacqueline

5.8

Talking About Jacqueline
1937-04-15

The Great Jasper

8

The Great Jasper
1933-03-03

8

Lucky children
1931-12-06

The Girl from Spree Woods

8

The Girl from Spree Woods
1928-04-18

Fighting the White Slave Traffic

9

Fighting the White Slave Traffic
1927-05-12

Lützow's Wild Hunt

8

Lützow's Wild Hunt
1927-02-21

8

Stjenka Rasin
1936-05-01

The Great Impersonation

7.5

The Great Impersonation
1935-12-08

7.5

The Copper
1930-09-10

Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein?

9

Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein?
1927-11-07

0

Befehl zur Ehe
1928-10-13

5.143

The Ringer
1932-07-21