Occupation Actress, Dancer Years active 1935 - 1945 (film) | Name Marianne Simson Role Film actress | |
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Born 29 July 1920 Berlin, Germany Other names Marianne Lena Elisabeth Clara Simson Died July 15, 1992, Fussen, Germany Movies The Swedish Nightingale, Two in a Big City, Familie Buchholz People also search for Carl Froelich, Peter Paul Brauer, Volker von Collande, Carl Hoffmann, Ewald Daub | ||
Marianne Simson (Julu 29, 1920 – July 15, 1992) was German dancer and film actress.
She was born in Berlin as the daughter of an insurance clerk John Edward Simson. Her brother was Helmut Simson, who later served as mayor of Wolfsburg. Originally trained as a ballerina, she made her screen debut in Frisions in Distress (1935) and went on to appear in another seventeen films over the next decade, generally in supporting roles.
In 1944 she informed on a Germany army major to the Gestapo for allegedly making comments supportive of the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Following the defeat of Germany, Simson was arrested by the Soviet NKVD and placed in a series of detention camps. In 1950 she was sentenced to eight years in prison, but was given an early release in 1952 and moved to West Germany. She worked as a choreographer in some stage productions, and married the theatre director Wilhelm List Diehl.