Wera Engels

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

0.2349

Gender

Female

Birthday

12-May-1909

Age

(117 years old)

Place of Birth

Kiel, Germany

Also Known As
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Wera Engels

Biography

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 and the silent movie super star Mary Pickford became best friends. 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, she dated Gary Cooper for a while but married the 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. She died on November 16, 1988 (age 79) in Munich, Germany.


Credits

Man spricht über Jacqueline Man spricht über Jacqueline (1937) Character: Jacqueline Topelius
Since her father died, rich and carefree Jacqueline Topelius makes magazine covers and causes social gossip with her flirtatious adventures around Europe, leaving a string of admirers behind without much concern. Her sister June, living in Paris, is all the contrary but they love each other just the same. Everything changes when Jacqueline meets Dr. Michael Thomas, who rejects her at first. Now she must choose, and also face the consequences her past life may have on their future together.
Mädchenhandel - Eine internationale Gefahr Mädchenhandel - Eine internationale Gefahr (1927) Character: Irene Wendtland
A young woman in Berlin is offered a job at a night club in Budapest. There she is abducted and brought to a brothel in Athens.
Das Spreewaldmädel Das Spreewaldmädel (1928) Character: N/A
Rural comedy about a farmer's fiancée who becomes distracted by a handsome young officer staying with them in 1910s Germany.
Stjenka Rasin Stjenka Rasin (1936) Character: Prinzessin Dolgoruki
Russia, 1667: The Cossacks, led by Rasin, are ill-treated by Prince Dolgoruki who arrests and sentences Rasin to forced labor on the ship that brings the Prince and his daughter to her arranged wedding. But the Princess falls for Rasin.
Lützows wilde verwegene Jagd Lützows wilde verwegene Jagd (1927) Character: N/A
Film by Richard Oswald.
Hong Kong Nights Hong Kong Nights (1935) Character: Trina Vidor
Customs agents track a ring of arms smugglers into Hong Kong.
The Great Jasper The Great Jasper (1933) Character: Norma McGowd
Generational saga about a failed streetcar conductor, who finds success as an Atlantic City fortune teller, and his son.
The Great Impersonation The Great Impersonation (1935) Character: Princess Stephanie Elderstrom
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
Together We Live Together We Live (1935) Character: Sonia
A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who are appalled by the burgeoning radical movement in America.
Der Greifer Der Greifer (1930) Character: Mabel
Inspector Harry Cross is investigating a murder case with a knife throwing killer in the the seedy world of night clubs.
Der Hexer Der Hexer (1932) Character: N/A
A shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia.
Sweepstake Annie Sweepstake Annie (1935) Character: Baroness Yvonne Baritska
A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and not necessarily for the better.
Le Parfum de la dame en noir Le Parfum de la dame en noir (1931) Character: Edith Rance
The story takes place on the Riviera, where the title character may or may not be involved in various shades of skullduggery, including murder.
Fugitive Road Fugitive Road (1934) Character: Sonya Valinoff
An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.



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