Elga Andersen

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
At the Whisper Tango (with Eddie Constantine)
  DE 37 05/01/1963 (8 weeks)

Elga Andersen (born February 2, 1935 as Helga Hymen in Dortmund , † December 7, 1994 in New York ) was a German actress and singer .

Life

Helga Hymen was born in 1935 as the only child of a civil engineer. Two weeks before the end of World War II , the father volunteered for the Wehrmacht after a family quarrel . It was moved to the Eastern Front and was lost there.

Andersen attended ballet school from the age of six and went to Paris at the age of 19 after graduating from high school. There she worked as a model and found herself in the gossip press , who introduced her as the lover of celebrities like Gary Cooper and Prince Moulay Abdullah, brother of Hassan II .

Otto Preminger gave her a small role in his 1958 film Bonjour Tristesse and the stage name "Elga Andersen". She played her first leading role in 1960 in Brazilian Rhapsody . Until the 1970s she was a seductive beauty in many, mainly European productions. She had her best-known role as Lisa Belgetti in Le Mans alongside Steve McQueen . She started singing in the 1960s and even hit the charts with it. Among other things, she sang the title song of The Guns of Navarone .

Her first marriage to a French architect ended in divorce. Since 1971 she was in a relationship with the American millionaire Peter R. Gimbel , whom she married in 1978. She supported her husband on his numerous diving expeditions to Andrea Doria, who sank in 1956 . The result was the two television documentaries The Mystery of the Andrea Doria (1975) and Andrea Doria: The Final Chapter (1984). Andersen acted as producer for the latter.

Peter Gimbel died of cancer in July 1987; Elga Andersen died on December 7, 1994. Both were later cremated and the ashes were taken by divers to the wreck of the Andrea Doria .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE
  2. ↑ a b c d e Gioia Diliberto: What Will Adventurers Peter Gimbel and Elga Andersen Dive into Next? Movies! . In: People of November 2, 1981
  3. ↑ John T. McQuiston: Peter Gimbel is dead at 59; a film maker and journalist . In: The New York Times, July 13, 1987
  4. ↑ Peter Gimbel . In: findagrave.com, accessed June 25, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Andersen, Elga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hymen, Helga (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 1994
Place of death New York City , New York , United States