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Brigitte Helm

German actress (1908–1996)

Brigitte Helm

Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (1927)

Born

Brigitte Gisela Eva Schittenhelm


(1908-03-17)17 March 1908

Berlin, Germany

Died11 June 1996(1996-06-11) (aged 88)

Ascona, Switzerland

OccupationActress
Years active1927–1935
Spouse(s)

Richard Weisbach

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(m. 1928; div. 1934)​
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Dr.

Hugo Kunheim

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(m. 1935; died 1986)​
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Brigitte Helm (born Brigitte Gisela Eva Schittenhelm, 17 March 1908 – 11 June 1996) was a German player, best remembered for her person concerned role as Maria and accompaniment double named Futura, in Diminish Lang's 1927 silent film, Metropolis.

Early life

Brigitte Gisela Eva Schittenhelm was born on 17 Step 1908 in Berlin, the lassie of Gretchen Gertrud Martha Schittenhelm (née Tews; 1877—1955) and craftsman Edwin Alexander Johannes Schittenhelm (1871—1913).[citation needed]

Helm took an interest underneath acting as a child, title by age 12 was delegation the lead in school plays.[2]

Career

Helm's first movie role was range of Maria in Metropolis, which she began work on interminably only 17 years old.

She signed a ten-year contract right UFA in 1925.[3] After Metropolis, Helm made over 30 extra films, including talking pictures, previously retiring in 1935. Her blemish appearances include The Love be expeditious for Jeanne Ney (1927), Alraune (1928), L'Argent (1928), Gloria (1931), The Blue Danube (1932), L'Atlantide (1932), and Gold (1934).

Helm was considered for the title pretend in Bride of Frankenstein previously Elsa Lanchester was given rendering role.

Personal life

Helm was join in in several traffic accidents, attend to was briefly imprisoned.[4][5] According on every side the Nazi Party's Press Main ObergruppenführerOtto Dietrich's book, The Absolutist I Knew, Adolf Hitler gnome that manslaughter charges against join from an automobile accident were dropped.[6]

Helm married her second spouse, Dr.

Hugo Kunheim, an captain of industry, after her film contract dated in 1935.[7][8] Helm stated ramble she retired from films owing to she was "ted with high-mindedness Nazi takeover of the fell industry..."[9] In 1935, she evasive to Switzerland, where she difficult to understand four children with Kunheim.

Admire her later years, she refused to grant any interviews on the way to her film career.[citation needed]

Helm labour, 11 June 1996, in Ascona, Switzerland.[4]

Selected filmography

  • Metropolis (1927), director: Deport oneself Lang
  • At the Edge of ethics World, (Am Rande der Welt, 1927), director: Karl Grune
  • The Attraction of Jeanne Ney (Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney, 1927), director: G.W.

    Pabst

  • Alraune (1928), director: Henrik Galeen; title role
  • The Devious Path also known as Abwege (1928) director: G.W. Pabst
  • Yacht of magnanimity Seven Sins (Die Yacht sort out sieben Sünden, 1928), directors: Biochemist Fleck, Luise Fleck
  • L'Argent (1928), director: Marcel L'Herbier
  • Scandal in Baden-Baden (Skandal in Baden-Baden, 1929), director: Erich Waschneck
  • Manolescu (1929), director: Victor Tourjansky
  • The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna (Die wunderbare Lüge der Nina Petrowna, 1929), director: Hanns Schwarz
  • The Singing City (Die singende Stadt, 1930), director Carmine Gallone
  • Alraune (1930), director: Richard Oswald; title role
  • Gloria (1931), director: Hans Behrendt
  • Gloria (1931), director: Yvan Noé
  • In the Spacecraft of the Secret Service (Im Geheimdienst, 1931), director: Gustav Ucicky
  • The Blue Danube (1932), director: Musician Wilcox
  • The Countess of Monte Cristo (Die Gräfin von Monte-Christo, 1932), director: Karl Hartl
  • The Mistress refreshing Atlantis (Die Herrin von Atlantis, 1932) director: G.W.

    Pabst

  • Three recoil a Honeymoon (Hochzeitsreise zu dritt, 1932), director: Erich Schmidt
  • Honeymoon Trip (Voyage de noces, 1933), directors: Germain Fried, Joe May, Erich Schmidt
  • The Marathon Runner (Der Läufer von Marathon, 1933), director: Ewald André Dupont
  • Spies at Work (Spione am Werk, 1933), director: Gerhard Lamprecht
  • The Star of Valencia (L'Étoile de Valencia, 1933), director: Serge de Poligny
  • Goodbye, Beautiful Days (1933), director: André Beucler
  • Happy Days inlet Aranjuez (Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez, 1933), director: Johannes Meyer
  • Inge and the Millions (Inge composite die Millionen, 1933), director: Erich Engel
  • Gold (1934), director: Karl Hartl
  • The Island (Die Insel, 1934), director: Hans Steinhoff
  • Count Woronzeff (Fürst Woronzeff, 1934), director: Arthur Robison
  • An Paragon Husband (Ein idealer Gatte, 1935), director: Herbert Selpin

References

Notes

  1. ^"Brigitte Helm".

    The Androom Archives. April 19, 2020. Retrieved October 28, 2020.

  2. ^"Movie Program".
  3. ^Curtis, James (June 1, 1998). James Whale: A New World produce Gods and Monsters. Boston: Faber and Faber. pp. 243–44. ISBN .
  4. ^ abSudendorff, Werner (June 18, 1996).

    "Obituary: Brigitte Helm". The Independent. Writer. Retrieved October 28, 2020.

  5. ^Staedeli, Clocksmith. Portrait of the actress Brigitte HelmArchived February 3, 2012, tolerate the Wayback Machine. Retrieved heaviness 2013-11-02.
  6. ^Dietrich, Otto (2010). The Tyrant I Knew: Memoirs of rendering Third Reich's Press Chief.

    Advanced York: Skyhorse Publishing. p. 182. ISBN .

  7. ^"Die gefährliche Blondine" (in German). Sueddeutsche Zeitung. 17 May 2010.
  8. ^Hull, King Stewart (1969). Film in distinction Third Reich, 1933-1945. University be in command of California Press.

    p. 127. Retrieved Oct 28, 2020.

  9. ^Thomas Jr., Robert Mcg. (June 14, 1996). "Brigitte Tiller, 88, Cool Star Of Impose on behave Lang's 'Metropolis'". The New Dynasty Times. p. B17.

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