Wera Engels

Wera Engels

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.

  • Igoa: Wera Engels
  • Lauiloa: 0.166
  • Lauiloa mo: Acting
  • Aso fanau: 1909-05-12
  • Nofoaga fanau ai: Kiel, Germany
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Wera Engels Tifaga

  • 1935
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    Together We Live

    Together We Live

    1 1935 HD

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  • 1931
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    L'anglais tel qu'on le parle

    L'anglais tel qu'on le parle

    1 1931 HD

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  • 1931
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    Le Parfum de la dame en noir

    Le Parfum de la dame en noir

    5.4 1931 HD

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  • 1935
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    Hong Kong Nights

    Hong Kong Nights

    3.5 1935 HD

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  • 1935
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    Sweepstake Annie

    Sweepstake Annie

    3.7 1935 HD

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  • 1934
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    Fugitive Road

    Fugitive Road

    1 1934 HD

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  • 1937
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    Man spricht über Jacqueline

    Man spricht über Jacqueline

    5.2 1937 HD

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  • 1933
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    The Great Jasper

    The Great Jasper

    1 1933 HD

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  • 1931
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    Kinder des Glücks

    Kinder des Glücks

    1 1931 HD

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  • 1928
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    Das Spreewaldmädel

    Das Spreewaldmädel

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1927
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    Mädchenhandel - Eine internationale Gefahr

    Mädchenhandel - Eine internationale Gefahr

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1927
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    Lützows wilde verwegene Jagd

    Lützows wilde verwegene Jagd

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1936
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    Stjenka Rasin

    Stjenka Rasin

    1 1936 HD

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  • 1935
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    The Great Impersonation

    The Great Impersonation

    1 1935 HD

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  • 1930
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    Der Greifer

    Der Greifer

    5 1930 HD

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  • 1927
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    Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein?

    Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein?

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1928
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    Befehl zur Ehe

    Befehl zur Ehe

    1 1928 HD

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