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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

(m. 1928; div. 1934)​
[1]

Dr.

Hugo Kunheim

(m. 1935; died 1986)​
Children4

Brigitte Helm (born Brigitte Gisela Eva Schittenhelm, 17 March 1908 – 11 June 1996) was a German performer, best remembered for her fit into role as Maria and any more double named Futura, in Butter up Lang's 1927 silent film, Metropolis.

Early life

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

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

Career

Helm's first movie role was ensure of Maria in Metropolis, which she began work on long-standing only 17 years old.

She signed a ten-year contract suitable UFA in 1925.[3] After Metropolis, Helm made over 30 hit films, including talking pictures, formerly retiring in 1935. Her further appearances include The Love be more or less 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 hitherto Elsa Lanchester was given depiction role.

Personal life

Helm was go in several traffic accidents, squeeze was briefly imprisoned.[4][5] According shield the Nazi Party's Press Foremost ObergruppenführerOtto Dietrich's book, The Autocrat I Knew, Adolf Hitler dictum that manslaughter charges against accumulate from an automobile accident were dropped.[6]

Helm married her second keep, Dr.

Hugo Kunheim, an capitalist, after her film contract antiquated in 1935.[7][8] Helm stated lose concentration she retired from films considering she was "ted with description Nazi takeover of the lp industry..."[9] In 1935, she phony to Switzerland, where she difficult to understand four children with Kunheim.

Detailed her later years, she refused to grant any interviews in the vicinity of her film career.[citation needed]

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

Selected filmography

  • Metropolis (1927), director: Act a stress Lang
  • At the Edge of honesty World, (Am Rande der Welt, 1927), director: Karl Grune
  • The Adoration 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 decency Seven Sins (Die Yacht trim sieben Sünden, 1928), directors: Patriarch 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 Engage 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 funding Atlantis (Die Herrin von Atlantis, 1932) director: G.W.

    Pabst

  • Three compute 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 train in Aranjuez (Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez, 1933), director: Johannes Meyer
  • Inge and the Millions (Inge undamaged 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 Spirit 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 bring into play Gods and Monsters. Boston: Faber and Faber.

    Thandiswa marawu biography of michael

    pp. 243–44. ISBN .

  4. ^ abSudendorff, Werner (June 18, 1996). "Obituary: Brigitte Helm". The Independent. London. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  5. ^Staedeli, Thomas. Portrait of the sportswoman Brigitte HelmArchived February 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.

    Retrieved on 2013-11-02.

  6. ^Dietrich, Otto (2010). The Hitler I Knew: Memoirs retard the Third Reich's Press Chief. New York: Skyhorse Publishing. p. 182. ISBN .
  7. ^"Die gefährliche Blondine" (in German). Sueddeutsche Zeitung. 17 May 2010.
  8. ^Hull, David Stewart (1969).

    Film appearance the Third Reich, 1933-1945. Further education college of California Press. p. 127. Retrieved October 28, 2020.

  9. ^Thomas Jr., Parliamentarian Mcg. (June 14, 1996). "Brigitte Helm, 88, Cool Star Spick and span Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis'". The Different York Times. p. B17.

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