Occupation Actress Spouse Ivan Lebedeff (m. 1941) Role Actress | Name Wera Engels Years active 1926–1937 | |
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Born 12 May 1905 ( 1905-05-12 ) Kiel, Germany Died November 16, 1988, Munich, Germany Movies The Great Jasper, The Great Impersonation, The Streets of London Similar People Ivan Lebedeff, Gary Cooper, J Walter Ruben, Alan Crosland | ||
Wera Engels
Wera Engels (12 May 1905 – 16 November 1988) was a German actress. After successful leading roles in productions of the well-established German UFA-studios in Babelsberg as well as in France, she was invited to Hollywood. Producers saw her as a cheap alternative to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich.
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She was contracted with RKO. She and actress Mary Pickford reportedly became good friends. In 1935 she returned to Germany, but left soon thereafter. Back in Hollywood, she dated Gary Cooper for a while but married 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.
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