Agnes Petersen

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Agnes Elisabeth Petersen (born April 21, 1906 in Copenhagen , † September 1, 1973 in Denmark ) was a Danish actress with a short career in late German silent film .

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The daughter of town hall clerk Fritz Petersen (born 1874) and his wife Thora Christensen (born 1876) joined the theater as a teenager and initially appeared in comedies, with which she also went on tour through the Danish provinces. In the early 1920s, the Danish theater actor Hilmar Clausen brought her to the cabaret Bonbonieren. Agnes Petersen was discovered for the film not yet 18 years old. Initially mostly considering all sorts of daughter roles, the attractive, dark-haired artist initially played female lead roles in comedies with the legendary comedian duo Pat and Patachon .

1926 Together they followed a call Hans Steinhoff's to Vienna, where all three Danes, Petersen, Madsen and Schenström, the real name of Laurel and Hardy, their first German silent film sons turned. Agnes Petersen found herself in Berlin the following year, where she continued to shoot leading roles in what is now German silent films. In autumn / winter 1927/28 she shot the German-produced fantasy film Secrets of the Orient in southern France with exiled Russian artists . In the process, Petersen also got to know the star among Belarusian filmmakers, Ivan Mosjukin , whom she married on March 12, 1928 in Nice before filming was finished. Then both returned to Germany and shot the adventure film The Secret Courier together . Soon afterwards, after taking part in a Czech and a Polish film, Agnes Petersen gradually ended her screen career.

She followed her husband to Paris, where she shot her first and only sound film in 1930 in the Paramount studios there: the Swedish production Den farliga leken . Here Agnes Petersen only got a supporting role. When exactly she returned to Denmark - her husband Mosjukin died near Paris in early 1939 - is currently unknown. Agnes Petersen-Mosjukin was buried in the Copenhagen cemetery Bispebjerg Kirkegård.

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SURNAME Petersen, Agnes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petersen, Agnes Elisabeth (full name); Petersen-Mosjukin, Agnes; Petersen-Musjukina, Agnes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish silent film actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1973
Place of death Denmark