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Wera Engels is a Actor Allemande born on 12 may 1909 at Kiel (German)

Wera Engels

Wera Engels
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Nationality German
Birth 12 may 1909 at Kiel (German)
Death 16 november 1988 (at 79 years) at Denklingen (German)

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.

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.

Usually with

Mary Kid
Mary Kid
(2 films)
David Dunbar
David Dunbar
(2 films)
Richard Oswald
Richard Oswald
(1 films)
Marcel L'Herbier
Marcel L'Herbier
(1 films)
Norman Lee
Norman Lee
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Wera Engels (8 films)

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Actress

The Great Impersonation
The Great Impersonation (1935)
, 1h8
Directed by Alan Crosland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Edmund Lowe, Valerie Hobson, Wera Engels, Murray Kinnell, Henry Mollison, Esther Dale
Roles Princess Stephanie Elderstrom
Rating64% 3.2278553.2278553.2278553.2278553.227855
Before the First World War, Sir Everard Dominey, a drunken upper-class Englishman, encounters an old acquaintance the sinister German arms dealer Baron Leopold von Ragostein in Africa. The two men are identical, and von Ragostein plans to kill his doppelganger and take his place in British high society where he will be able to further his arms business and spy on Britain for the German Empire. He arranges the murder with his various associates.
The Great Jasper
The Great Jasper (1933)
, 1h25
Directed by J. Walter Ruben
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Richard Dix, Edna May Oliver, Florence Eldridge, Wera Engels, Bruce Cabot, Walter Walker
Roles Norma McGowd
Rating63% 3.1611553.1611553.1611553.1611553.161155
This script must be run from the command line
Scent of the Woman in Black
Scent of the Woman in Black (1931)
, 1h49
Directed by Marcel L'Herbier, Georges Lampin, André Cerf
Origin France
Genres Crime, Politic
Actors Roland Toutain, Marcel Vibert, Léon Belières, Edmond van Daële, Wera Engels, Kissa Kouprine
Roles Edith Rance
Rating64% 3.2188053.2188053.2188053.2188053.218805
Le jour du mariage de Mathilde Stangerson et de Robert Darzac, Joseph Rouletabille annonce à Sainclair, chef des informations du journal L'Epoque, que Larsan, le premier mari de Mathilde, n'est pas mort. Le célèbre reporter entraîne Sainclair au château des Roches-Rouges où séjournent les nouveaux époux et où Larsan lui échappe après une tentative manquée d'enlèvement de la jeune épouse. Les soupçons se portent tour à tour sur les invités d'Edith Rance, la propriétaire du château...
White Slave Traffic
White Slave Traffic (1927)

Directed by Jaap Speyer
Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Films about slavery, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Alberti, Erich Kaiser-Titz, Wera Engels, Trude Hesterberg, Wilhelm Diegelmann
Roles Irene Wendtland

Quand une femme travaillant dans un nightclub de Berlin s'en va à Budapest pour un autre emploi qu'on lui a trouvé, elle se fait kidnapper par des trafiquants d'esclaves sexuelles.