Anny Ondra

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Anny Ondra, 1930
The bridal couple Anny Ondra and Max Schmeling
Memorial plaque on the house at Brixplatz 9, in Berlin-Westend

Anny Ondra , actually Anna Sophie Ondráková , married Anny Schmeling (born May 15, 1902 or 1903 in Tarnów , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; † February 28, 1987 in Dierstorf-Heide , Hollenstedt municipality ) was a German actress of Czech - Austrian origin.

Life

As the daughter of an Austro- Hungarian officer, she spent her childhood in Prague . At the age of 16, she played the role of slightly over-excited girl. From 1919 she worked mainly with the director and actor Karel Lamač , who later became her first husband. The film Gilly poprvé v Praze - Gilly for the first time in Prague brought her breakthrough in 1920. She rose to become the leading comedian in Czech film.

With the films Evas Töchter (1928) and Sündig undweet (1929) she conquered the German audience. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock , the films The Man from the Isle of Man ( The Manxman ) and Blackmail ( Blackmail ) followed in 1929 . She was Hitchcock's first "blonde murderer". Blackmail began as a silent film; In the course of production, however, it was decided to make the first English sound film out of it. Since Ondra's English wasn't good enough, but Hitchcock didn't want to do without her as an actress, he had her part dubbed by the British actress Joan Barry . Thus Joan Barry became the first dubbing actress and Anny Ondra became the first actress in film history to be dubbed in a foreign language, whereby the dubbing took place in an unusual way: Ondra moved her lips, Barry spoke the text outside the picture.

In 1930 she and Karel Lamač founded the Ondra Lamač film company in Germany , which existed until 1936. She played her first self-spoken role as a sound film alongside Sigi Arno in Die vom Rummelplatz (1930). After Karel Lamač left Germany, she only played a few roles and withdrew into private life in the 1950s.

On July 6, 1933, she married the three years younger boxer Max Schmeling in Bad Saarow , with whom she appeared together in the film Knock-out (1935). In 1933 Schmeling had acquired the summer house of the expressionist painter Bruno Krauskopf , who had fled into exile from the Nazis, in Bad Saarow .

Anny Ondra suffered a miscarriage as a result of a car accident . It would be their only pregnancy, the couple remained childless. Not only as a result of the miscarriage, Anny Ondra took over the sponsorship for the granddaughter of her friend Hermann Gronen, born in 1942, who was married to Rosa Gronen (née Schmeling) for the first time. Max Schmeling gave the granddaughter Rosa Maria Gronen (now winter) a pair of boxing gloves for her baptism.

Anny Ondra was buried in the cemetery in Hollenstedt (Harburg district). Next to her, Max Schmeling also found his final resting place in 2005.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1920: Gilly for the first time in Prague (Gilly poprvé v Praze)
  • 1921: Coming from the Dark (Príchozí z temnot)
  • 1922: Gypsy love
  • 1922: Do not lead us into temptation
  • 1925: I love you
  • 1926: Trude, the sixteen year old
  • 1926: The Pratermizzi
  • 1928: Eva's daughters
  • 1928: The first kiss
  • 1928: Saxophone Susi
  • 1929: The Manxman (The Manxman)
  • 1929: Blackmail (Blackmail)
  • 1929: Sinful and sweet
  • 1929: The caviar princess
  • 1930: The one from the fairground
  • 1930: A friend as cute as you (also production)
  • 1932: One night in paradise
  • 1932: Kiki (also co-production)
  • 1933: Fräulein Hoffmann's stories (also production)
  • 1933: The hotel in love (also production)
  • 1934: Klein Dorrit (also production)
  • 1934: Polish blood
  • 1934: The swapped bride
  • 1935: knock-out
  • 1935: Major cleaning (also co-production)
  • 1935: The young count (also production)
  • 1936: Donogoo Tonka
  • 1936: Honeymoon (also production)
  • 1937: A warning is given against love (also production)
  • 1937: The irresistible
  • 1938: Fools in the Snow
  • 1941: The gas man
  • 1942: Heavens, we inherit a castle!
  • 1951: You have to be beautiful
  • 1957: The engagement in Zurich (appearance)

Awards

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