Wera Engels

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name=Wera Engels


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birthplace=Kiel, Germany
deathdate=1988-11-16
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yearsactive=1926-1937
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Wera Engels was a German actress.

Wera Engels was a daughter of a German Admiral and Governor of the then German colony Tsing-tau-China. After successful leading roles in productions of the well-established German UFA-studios in Babelsberg as well as in France, Engels was invited to Hollywood. Producers saw her as a cheap alternative to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. She was contracted with RKO. Engels was given roles under Walter Futter and M.H. Hoffman. She became best friends with the silent movie super star Mary Pickford. By 1935 she returned to Germany, but left soon thereafter, because of the decline of the German movie industry caused by the Nazi propaganda machine. Back in Hollywood Engels married the Lithuanian-born actor/writer Ivan Lebedeff. After Lebedeff's death in 1958 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.

=Filmography=

*1927 "Mädchenhandel - Eine internationale Gefahr"
*1927 "Luetzows wilde verwegene Jagd"
*1927 "Du hast geliebt am schoenen Rhein?"
*1928 "Das Spreewaldmädel"
*1928 "Befehl zur Ehe"
*1929 "The Streets of London"
*1930 "L'anglais tel qu'on le parle"
*1930 "Der Greifer"
*1931 "Le parfum de la dame en noir"
*1931 "Kinder des Glücks"
*1932 "Der Hexer"
*1932 "Lumpenkavaliere"
*1933 "The Great Jasper"
*1934 "Fugitive Road"
*1935 "Sweepstake Annie"
*1935 "Together We Live"
*1935 "The Great Impersonation"
*1935 "Hong Kong Nights"
*1936 "Wolga-Wolga"
*1937 "Man spricht über Jacqueline"

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