Adina Mandlová

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Birthplace in Mladá Boleslav

Adina Mandlová , proper name Jaroslava Anna Františka Marie Mandlová (born  January 28, 1910 in Mladá Boleslav , †  June 16, 1991 in Příbram ) was a well-known Czech actress of the 1930s and 1940s. In Germany she played under the pseudonym Lil Adina .

Childhood and youth

Adina Mandlová was the oldest of four children of the Mandl couple and the only girl. Her father placed great emphasis on her education and taught her to play the piano. He died when Adina was eight years old. Since the family now lived in poor conditions, Adina had to help out with the household. At 16 she had a lover with whom she went to night clubs and bars. The new boyfriend of Adina's mother therefore paid her to stay in a French boarding school, from which she was, however, expelled after two years.

Film career

Then Adina Mandlová went to Prague and worked as a model for the Rosenbaum fashion company. She also began with a small role in the film Děvčátko, neříkej ne! (Girls, don't say no!) Her film career in Czechoslovakia. Soon she was one of the most prominent Czechoslovak actresses of her time. She has worked with well-known directors ( Martin Frič , Otakar Vávra , František Čáp ) as well as Oldřich Nový , Antonín Novotný , Raoul Schránil . Many of her films were big box office hits - the best known are: Hotel Modrá hvězda , Dva týdny štěstí , Těžký život dobrodruha , Kristián , Šťastnou cestu , Katakomby , Sobota and Cech panen kutnohorských . Some of them are still popular in the Czech Republic and Slovakia today.

In 1942 Mandlová accepted an offer from Berlin and played under the pseudonym Lil Adina with Heinz Rühmann in the German film I trust you my wife .

Private life

At the beginning of her film career, Adina Mandlová met the actor Hugo Haas , with whom she later lived for some time and made around eight films. However, in 1937 they separated. When she made the film I trust you my wife in Berlin in 1942 , she associated with German artists and Nazi celebrities, including Goebbels . At the same time, rumors spread in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia that Adina was Karl Hermann Frank's lover . In 1943 she married the painter Zdeněk Tůma, but the marriage was short-lived. After the divorce, Tůma committed suicide and Adina had to leave the theater.

Because of her ties to the Germans, Adina Mandlová was imprisoned in her home country after World War II . To avoid further persecution in Czechoslovakia, she married the Czech pilot Josef Kočvárek in 1947, who fought on the British side during the Second World War. After she obtained British citizenship, she lived in London , where she tried to build on her previous film career. However, due to language problems, she was unable to prevail in the UK.

After the divorce from Kočvárek, Mandlová married a third time, but that marriage lasted only two years. In 1950 she fell ill with tuberculosis and healed in Switzerland. In 1954 she married the fashion designer Ben Peerson and worked for him as a model. The couple later moved to Malta. Although Peerson was homosexual , the marriage lasted until his death. Then Adina Mandlová returned to Czechoslovakia in 1991 and died there on June 16, 1991 in the city of Příbram .

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SURNAME Mandlová, Adina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adina, Lil (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Mladá Boleslav , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1991
Place of death Příbram , South Bohemia