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Other names
  
Adrienne Geiringer

Role
  
Actress

Name
  
Adrienne Gessner

Years active
  
1931–1980 (film)

Occupation
  
Actress



Born
  
23 July 1896
Schottwien, Austro-Hungarian Empire

Died
  
June 23, 1987, Vienna, Austria

Spouse
  
Ernst Lothar (m. 1933–1974)

Parents
  
Gustav Geiringer, Christine Geiringer

Movies
  
Die Trapp‑Familie in Amerika, A Breath of Scandal, Abenteuer in Wien, Stolen Identity, The Angel with the Trumpet

Similar People
  
Ernst Lothar, Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Karl Hartl, Maria von Trapp, Michael Curtiz

Adrienne Gessner (July 23, 1896 – June 23, 1987) was an Austrian actress. Gessner appeared in over fifty film and television shows during her career, including the 1955 costume film Royal Hunt in Ischl. Gessner appeared in a mixture of German and Austrian films during her career. Following the Anchluss of 1938 she fled with her Jewish husband Ernst Lothar to the United States, returning after the Second World War.

Selected filmography

  • Catherine the Last (1936)
  • After the Storm (1948)
  • No Time for Flowers (1952)
  • Voices of Spring (1952)
  • Stolen Identity (1953)
  • Royal Hunt in Ischl (1955)
  • Crown Prince Rudolph's Last Love (1955)
  • I Often Think of Piroschka (1955)
  • The Golden Bridge (1956)
  • The Trapp Family in America (1958)
  • A Breath of Scandal (1960)
  • The Spendthrift (1964)
  • Tales from the Vienna Woods (1979)
  • References

    Adrienne Gessner Wikipedia