Elisabeth Bergner
Known for Acting
Biography
Elisabeth Bergner (born Elisabeth Ettel; 22 August 1897 – 12 May 1986) was a European actress. Primarily a stage actress, her career flourished in Berlin and Paris, before she moved to London to work in films. Her signature role was Gemma Jones in Escape Me Never, a play written for her by Margaret Kennedy. Bergner, known in Europe as La Bergner, played Gemma first in London, and then made her Broadway debut with the role in 1935. She later repeated it in a film version, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1943, Bergner returned to Broadway in the play The Two Mrs. Carrolls, for which she was awarded the Distinguished Performance Medal by the Drama League.
Filmography
Cry of the Banshee
1970
as Oona
Paris Calling
1941
as Marianne Jannetier
Fräulein Else
1929
as Else Thalhof
Der Garten
1983
as Mrs. Merriman
Escape Me Never
1935
as Gemma Jones
The Rise of Catherine the Great
1934
as Catherine
Husbands or Lovers
1924
as Nju
As You Like It
1936
as Rosalind
Strogoff
1970
as Mother
The Pedestrian
1973
as Frau Lilienthal
Nachtdienst
1975
as Baroness
Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
1973
as Self
Stolen Life
1939
as Sylvina Lawrence / Martina Lawrence
Ariane
1931
as Ariane Kusnetzowa
Dreaming Lips
1932
as Gaby
Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture
1976
as Self - Interviewee
The House on the Hill
1975
as Ellen
Dreaming Lips
1937
as Gaby Lawrence
Love
1928
as Herzogin von Langeais
The Happy Years of the Thorwalds
1962
as Frau Thorwald