Elfie Beyer
Elfie Beyer (born August 6, 1920 - November 18, 1989 ; married Elfie Huhn ) was a German actress and voice actress . Among other things, she was the German voice of Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind .
Life
Elfie Beyer trained as a theater actress and appeared in her first film Little Girls - Big Worries in 1941 in a supporting role as a boarding school girl . In 1943 she played in Großstadtmelodie at the side of Werner Hinz and Hilde Krahl . Her film appearances, however, remained rare. During the 1940s she was seen more often on the theater stage. So also with the Munich Chamber Theater on 19 October 1945 in Carl Zuckmayer's comedy The Merry Vineyard directed by Jochen Hauer. Also in 1945 she appeared in the Munich Prinzregententheater in Paul Verhoeven's production of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream alongside Rudolf Vogel and Käthe Braun . The music by the Jewish composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , which was banned until the end of the war, was used again for the first time. In 1951 she played in Czardas of hearts with Wolf Albach-Retty and Hannelore Bollmann again in a movie with.
However, Elfie Beyer is better known for her work as a voice actress. Her best-known dubbing role is that of Scarlett O'Hara ( Vivien Leigh ) in the dubbing of Gone With the Wind from 1953, for which, according to her daughter, she got 6,000 marks. Vivien Leigh had also spoken to Beyer in Her First Husband four years earlier . Other actresses she voiced include Jennifer Jones in A Song of Bernadette , Susan Hayward in Pirates in the Caribbean , Linda Darnell in King of the Toreros , Deborah Kerr in King Solomon's Diamonds , Elsa Lanchester in the Prosecution and Nancy Olson in Twilight Boulevard .
Beyer was married under the name Huhn and had at least one daughter. She died of cancer in 1989.
Filmography
- 1941: Little girls - big worries
- 1943: city melody
- 1948: Mrs. Holle
- 1951: Czardas of hearts
Web links
- Elfie Beyer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- List of her work as a voice actress on synchrondatenbank.de
- Elfie Beyer ( Memento from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on deutsche-synchronsprecher.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Letter to the editor from Charlotte Huhn, Elfie Beyer's daughter . In: Der Spiegel , January 15, 1990, No. 3, p. 10.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beyer, Elfie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chicken, Elfie (married name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress and voice actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1920 |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1989 |