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Occupation
  
Actress

Years active
  
1927–1978


Name
  
Brigitte Helm

Role
  
Actress

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Full Name
  
Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm

Born
  
17 March 1906 (
1906-03-17
)
Berlin, Germany

Died
  
June 11, 1996, Ascona, Switzerland

Parents
  
Gertrud Martha Tews, Edwin Alexander Johannes Schittenhelm

Awards
  
German Film Award - Honorary Award

Ex-spouse
  
Hugo von Kuenheim, Rudolf Weissbach

Movies
  
Metropolis, The Mistress of Atlantis, Alraune, Money, The Love of Jeanne Ney

Similar People
  
Alfred Abel, Fritz Lang, Rudolf Klein‑Rogge, Thea von Harbou, Fritz Rasp

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Brigitte Helm (17 March 1906 – 11 June 1996) was a German actress, best remembered for her dual role as Maria and her double, the Maschinenmensch, in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film Metropolis.

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Born Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm in Berlin, Helm's first role was that of Maria in Metropolis which she began work on while only 18 years old. After Metropolis, Helm made over thirty other films, including talking pictures, before retiring in 1936. Her other appearances include The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927), Alraune (1928), L'Argent (1928), Gloria (1931), The Blue Danube (1932), L'Atlantide (1932), and Gold (1934).

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Though having a 10-year contract with UFA expiring in 1935, Helm incurred the wrath of Nazi Germany for "race defilement" in marrying her second husband Dr. Hugo Kunheim, an industrialist of Jewish background. Helm was also involved in several traffic accidents, and was briefly imprisoned. According to Otto Dietrich's book The Hitler I Knew, Adolf Hitler himself saw that manslaughter charges against her from an automobile accident were dropped.

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In 1935, she moved to Switzerland where she later had four children with Hugo. After her retirement from films, she refused to grant any interviews concerning her film career. Helm was considered for the title role in Bride of Frankenstein before Elsa Lanchester was given the role.

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Filmography

Actress
2023
ymoR (Short) as
ymoR's mother
1978
Wie im Traum (Short)
1935
An Ideal Spouse as
Lady Gertrud Chiltern
1935
Le secret des Woronzeff as
Diane
1934
Prince Woronzeff as
Diane Morell
1934
Die Insel as
Karin, seine Tochter
1934
Vers l'abîme as
Karine
1934
L'or as
Florence Wills
1934
Gold as
Florence Wills
1933
Inge and the Millions as
Inge, seine Sekretärin
1933
Goodbye Beautiful Days as
Olga
1933
Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez as
Olga
1933
L'étoile de Valencia as
Marion Savedra
1933
Spies at Work as
Marchesa Marcella Galdi
1933
Der Läufer von Marathon as
Lore Steinkopf
1933
Voyage de noces as
Anita Paglione
1932
Hochzeitsreise zu dritt as
Anita Berndt
1932
The Mistress of Atlantis as
Antinea
1932
Gilgi: One of Us as
Gisela Kron, Gilgi
1932
Die Herrin von Atlantis as
Antinéa
1932
Die Gräfin von Monte-Christo as
Jeanette Heider, Filmkomparsin
1932
The Blue Danube as
Countess Gabrielle
1931
Gloria as
Véra Latour
1931
Gloria as
Maria, seine Frau
1931
In the Employ of the Secret Service as
Vera Lanskaja
1930
Die singende Stadt as
Claire Landshoff - junge Witwe
1929
Alraune as
Alraune ten Brinken / Alma, a bar girl
1929
Manolescu - Der König der Hochstapler as
Cleo
1929
L'Atlantide as
Antinéa
1929
The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna as
Nina Petrowna
1929
Skandal in Baden-Baden as
Vera Kersten
1928
L'Argent as
La baronne Sandorf
1928
Secrets of the Orient
1928
The Devious Path as
Irene Beck, seine Frau
1928
Die Yacht der sieben Sünden as
Marfa Petrowna
1928
A Daughter of Destiny as
Alraune ten Brinken
1927
The Love of Jeanne Ney as
Gabrielle
1927
Am Rande der Welt as
Magda, seine Totcher
1927
Metropolis as
Maria / Maschinenmensch / The Machine Man
Self
1929
Autour de l'argent (Documentary short) as
Self
Archive Footage
2019
Compression (TV Series documentary)
- Compression L'Argent de Marcel L'Herbier (2019)
2015
Scaretheater (TV Series) as
Maria
2014
From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (Documentary) as
Self
2014
Caligari - Wie der Horror ins Kino kam (TV Movie documentary) as
The Machine Man / Maria
2013
Natan (Documentary) as
La baronne Sandorf
2012
Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) as
Maria / The Machine Man
- Metrópolis (Montaje de 1984) (2012) - Maria / The Machine Man
2010
A Symphony of War: Part I (Documentary) as
Self
2004
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands (TV Movie documentary) as
Maria / The Robot (in "Metropolis") (uncredited)
2003
Queen: Greatest Video Hits 2 (Video documentary) as
Maria (segment "Radio Ga Ga")
2003
Vorher - Nachher: Filmrestaurierung am Beispiel Metropolis (Video documentary short) as
Maria / The Robot (uncredited)
2002
CinéMagique (Short) as
The Machine Man (uncredited)
1998
Dämonische Leinwand - Der deutsche Film der zwanziger Jahre (Documentary) as
Maria (clip from Metropolis (1927)) (uncredited)
1997
The 69th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Memorial Tribute
1995
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Baronin Sandorf
- The Music of Light (1995) - Baronin Sandorf (uncredited)
1994
Cinegrafias (Documentary short) as
Self
1965
The Love Goddesses (Documentary) as
Self
1959
The Twentieth Century (TV Series documentary) as
La baronne Sandorf (clip from L'argent (1928))
- The Movies Learn to Talk (1959) - La baronne Sandorf (clip from L'argent (1928)) (uncredited)
1958
It Only Happened Once as
Self - Brigitte Helm
1950
Wonderful Times (Documentary) as
Self
1929
Rund um die Liebe

References

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