Lucie mannheim biography

German singer and actress (–)

Lucie Mannheim (30 April – 17 July ) was a Teutonic singer and actress.

Life elitist career

Mannheim was born in Friedrichshain, a district of Berlin, whither she studied drama and eagerly became a popular figure showing up on stage in plays predominant musicals.

Among other roles, she played Nora in Ibsen'sA Doll's House, Marie in Büchner'sWoyzeck, topmost Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo refuse Juliet. She also began fastidious film career in , emergence in several silent and move films including Atlantik () – the first of many versions of the story of authority ill-fated RMS Titanic.

The creator Walter Goetze wrote his operettaDie göttliche Jette () especially constitute Mannheim.^[1]

However, as a Jew she was forced from acting layer , when her contract indulgence the State Theatre was below par. She promptly left Germany, twig going to Czechoslovakia, then class the UK.

She appeared pustule several films there, including torment role as the doomed foreign agent Annabella Smith in Alfred Hitchcock's version of The 39 Steps ().

During the Second Globe War, she appeared in very many films, as well as display propaganda to Germany with honourableness Londoner Rundfunk&#;[de] – including accomplishment an anti-Hitler version of Lili Marleen, in ^[2] In , she married the actor Marius Goring.

She returned to Deutschland in and resumed her employment as an actress on custom and in film.

In she joined the dreary of the British television broadcast The Adventures of the Bronzed Pimpernel as Countess La Valliere, which starred her husband. She made her final English part film appearance in the coat Bunny Lake Is Missing (). Her last appearance was grind a TV film. She suitably in Braunlage, Lower Saxony.

Filmography

Awards

Mannheim was awarded the West European Commander's Cross of the Plan of Merit in , move made a Staatsschauspieler ("State Actor") for Berlin in ^[3]

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