Charlotte Susa
Charlotte Susa (born March 1, 1898 at Gut Gaußen near Memel; † July 28, 1976 in Basel ) was a German actress .
Career
Born in Charlotta Wegmüller, she received singing lessons in Mannheim after attending school in Tilsit. In 1915 she made her stage debut in Tilsit with a performance of Mozart's Magic Flute . She chose “Susa” as her stage name, the maiden name of her mother Olga, a native Italian who ran a corsetry shop in Memel. As a singer and actress, she played in various opera and operetta productions in Brandenburg, Essen, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Cologne.
In the twenties she celebrated success in the revues Konfetti and Today I'm in love in the Berlin Admiralspalast . Later she shifted more to speaking roles. In 1929 she played the beautiful Helena in Troilus and Cressida at the Heidelberg Festival , after which she worked at the Baranowsky Theaters in Berlin .
From 1926 Charlotte Susa was also a film actress. In the film she represented the femme fatale , sophisticated, sophisticated women of the world, several times as an agent or criminal, as in the title role of The Tiger , where she played a burglar and murderer. From 1932 to 1934 she was under contract with MGM in Hollywood. Her arrival in Hollywood was received with great anticipation in the trade press and Susa was hailed as the potential successor to Greta Garbo . The well-known journalist Elizabeth Yeaman wrote in her column of August 15, 1932 in connection with some other foreign stars who had received contracts with large studios:
- Lilian Harvey , Henry Garat, Anna Sten , and now Charlotte Susa, comprise a quartet of important foreign talent that soon will be seen in Hollywood pictures. (...) Miss Susa has arrived in New York and soon will reach these shores with an MGM contract. She was born in Lithuania of German parents and has won great fame in Germany. She first went on the stage as a singer, then as a dramatic actress, and three years ago she took up screen work. Who knows, she may be the actress who will take Garbo's place, provided Garbo never returns.
Like so many other imports, Charlotte Susa was not given any roles and soon returned to Germany. When she did not receive any more film offers in Germany after 1940, she returned to the stage.
Charlotte Susa was married to the artistic director Paul Cablin, the actor Arthur Malkowsky and from 1939 to the actor Andrews Engelmann .
Filmography
- 1926: The Prince and the Dancer
- 1926: Autumn maneuvers
- 1926: Love's lust and suffering
- 1926: That was in Heidelberg on a blue summer night
- 1927: The victory of the youth
- 1927: Poor little Colombine
- 1927: Previous conditions
- 1927: The duty to be silent
- 1927: Two under the sky
- 1927: Almenrausch and Edelweiss
- 1928: You shouldn't steal
- 1929: Sin and Morals
- 1929: Erotik (Erotikon)
- 1929: father and son
- 1930: the tiger
- 1930: Zapfenstreich on the Rhine
- 1930: The great longing
- 1930: the gripper
- 1930: two people
- 1931: King-Fu's yellow house
- 1931: Waltz paradise
- 1931: D-Zug 13 is late
- 1931: excursion into life
- 1931: The paw
- 1931: Ehe mb H.
- 1932: Under a false flag
- 1934: Adventure in the Southern Express
- 1934: The legacy in Pretoria
- 1934: You and the three
- 1935: Everything about a woman
- 1935: King Tiger
- 1935: executioners, women and soldiers
- 1937: The great adventure
- 1939: Water for Canitoga
- 1939: a woman like you
- 1941: The gas man
Web links
- Charlotte Susa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures by Charlotte Susa In: Virtual History
- Charlotte Susa at Cyranos
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Susa, Charlotte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Memel |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1976 |
| Place of death | Basel |