Betty Bird

Betty Bird , born in Hilde Elisabeth Ptack (born June 18, 1901 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † March 4, 1998 in Rome , Italy ) was an Austrian film actress .

Life

Hilde Elisabeth Ptack, daughter of Ludwig Ptack, came into contact with film people at an early age, as her father was the private secretary of the owner of the Sascha film factory. On December 23, 1923 she married the cameraman and later film director Gustav Ucicky .

In 1927 she received her first film role as the “Vienna Film Beauty Queen”. Betty Bird, as she called herself now, moved with her husband to Munich and then to Berlin. In the role of a lovable girl, she was seen mostly in film comedies in the late 1920s and early 1930s , without attracting special attention.

The marriage with Ucicky was divorced in August 1936. On December 23, 1937, she married the Czech dentist Hruska in Rome. She died in Rome on March 4, 1998.

Filmography (selection)

• 1927: Madame dares an affair
• 1928: The photographer of the heart
• 1928: The shop prince
• 1928: hearts without a goal
• 1928: Behind the monastery walls
• 1928: Waterloo
• 1929: The midnight tax
• 1929: The hero of all girls' dreams
• 1929: The Baskerville Hound
• 1929: Venus in the world bath
• 1929: The green monocle
• 1929: Assault on three hearts
• 1930: The three holy wells
• 1930: A boys song from Heidelberg
• 1930: darling of the gods
• 1930: Viennese love affairs
• 1931: Grock
• 1931: Waltz paradise
• 1931: Opera redoubt
• 1931: The mother of the company
• 1931: The Spanish fly
• 1931: The great love
• 1932: The Feldherrnhügel
• 1932: I don't want to know who you are
• 1932: Escape to Nice
• 1932: Secret of the blue room
• 1933: Dora Green Salon
• 1934: What am I without you
• 1934: The Senator
• 1935: Hero of a Night

Web links

• Betty Bird in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography at www.cyranos.ch
• Pictures by Betty Bird In: Virtual History