Lissy Arna
Lissy Arna , also Lissi Arna (born December 20, 1904 in Berlin ; † January 23, 1964 there ; actually Elisabeth Arndt ), was a German actress .
Life
Elisabeth Arndt attended elementary and commercial school in Berlin. She came to film as an extra and starred in several short films in 1919. In 1920 she married the director Hanns Schwarz . However, the marriage ended in divorce after two years. In 1923 she got her first leading role in the feature film Adventure One Night .
After a two-year stay in America, Lissy Arna was often used in German silent films from 1925. She embodied the type of femme fatale or seductive demi- world lady popular in this film era . Her most famous role of this kind she took on as a prostitute in the film The Women's Refuge of Rio (1927). She pursued the same activity in Leo Mittler's Jenseits der Straße (1929).
In 1930 she played leading roles in Hollywood in several German-language versions of American productions directed by Wilhelm Dieterle . But already in the following year she returned to Germany and in the early Edgar Wallace film Der Zinker she was back in her usual role as a dangerous seductress.
However, the emergence of the talkie brought a significant career break for Lissy Arna. She now turned more to the stage and acted in the theaters on Kurfürstendamm and Schiffbauerdamm . In 1939 she married the doctor Dr. Kleiber and moved with him to Venezuela, where he took up a position as chief physician. After his death she returned to Berlin in the late 1950s. In 1961 she appeared again in a small role in front of the camera.
Lissy Arna died in Berlin in 1964 at the age of 59. She was buried in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Westend . The grave has not been preserved.
Filmography
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Web links
- Lissy Arna in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lissy Arna on cyranos.ch
- Biography on film-zeit.de
- Images by Lissy Arna In: Virtual History
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 471.
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| SURNAME | Arna, Lissy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arna, Lissi; Arndt, Elisabeth (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1964 |
| Place of death | Berlin |