Dinah Grace

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Dinah Grace at Scala in Berlin , 1936

Dinah Grace (born February 14, 1917 , actually Käthe Gerda Johanna Ilse Schmidt , in Berlin ; † May 10, 1963 in Hamburg ) was a German artistic dancer and actress .

Live and act

Burial place for Dinah Grace and Willy Fritsch, Ohlsdorf cemetery

Grace was an officer's daughter . She received ballet lessons from early childhood . She got her first engagement as a dancer at the age of 14. Dinah Grace celebrated great successes mainly at the Volksbühne Berlin as well as in the Berlin Wintergarten and the Scala revue theater , but her engagements also took her to London, Vienna and Budapest. The photographer Lotte Jacobi described her in 1930 as the best dancer she had ever photographed.

Dinah Grace made her film debut in 1933/1934 in the feature film It's nice to be in love . In the same year, the successful film drama Hohe Schule followed , in which she could again be seen as a dancer. In 1936 she was present as a revue dancer Dolly in the short film Potpourri . In March 1937 she married the film actor Willy Fritsch , whose film partner Lilian Harvey was one of the best man. She gave up her career and only appeared in one other film ( Jokers , 1939). Two sons were born from the marriage with Fritsch.

After the end of the war, the Fritsch family came to Hamburg, where Dinah Grace devoted herself to bringing up their children. Her son Thomas Fritsch became a successful actor. Dinah Grace died of breast cancer at the age of 46, she was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

Filmography

  • 1933/1934: It's nice to be in love (part: solo dancer)
  • 1934: High school (role: dancer)
  • 1936: Potpourri (role: revue dancer Dolly)
  • 1939: Jokers (part: Settchen Strobel)

literature

  • Heike Goldbach: A firework of charm - Willy Fritsch. The Ufa actor. About a great film career in changeable times . tredition, Hamburg 2017. ISBN 978-3-7439-1290-8
  • Willy Fritsch: "... that won't come back". Memories of a film actor . Zurich and Stuttgart 1963
  • Rita Bake and Brita Reimers: City of Dead Women. Female figures and images of life from the Hamburg Ohlsdorf cemetery. Hamburg 1997, p. 125.

Web links

Commons : Dinah Grace  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There are different details regarding the year of birth of the artist. In the publication City of Dead Women is mentioned 1916, in contrast, the year 1917 was carved into the tombstone of Dinah Grace and Willy Fritsch .
  2. ↑ Lotte Jacobi: Theater & dance photographs , Countryman Press, 1982, p. 12
  3. ↑ Heike Goldbach: A firework of charm: Willy Fritsch, the Ufa actor. About a great film career in changeable times tredition Verlag, Hamburg
  4. ↑ Died: Dinah Grace-Fritsch In: Der Spiegel No. 21/1963, May 22, 1962.
personal data
SURNAME Grace, Dinah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Käthe Gerda Johanna Ilse (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dancer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1963
Place of death Hamburg