Eva Monley

Eva Monley , née Eva Sachs (born April 29, 1923 in Berlin ; † November 12, 2011 in Nanyuki ) was a German- Kenyan film producer , location scout and production manager.

Life

Monley was born in Germany, but fled the Nazi regime to the colony of Kenya in 1936 . There she learned to speak fluent Swahili and became an expert on East African cultures.

At the beginning of her working life Monley was employed as a secretary in Nairobi; She first came into contact with the film world in 1950 when she was hired as a script girl and assistant for King Solomon's Diamonds , which was filmed in the colonies of Kenya, Belgian Congo and Tanganyika . After the film was finished, she was hired for similar duties with John Huston's African Queen . In the following years she worked in the background for other American and British films, such as Snow on Kilimanjaro , White Woman on the Congo and John Ford's Mogambo, made in 1953 . Monley has also been booked outside of the African continent; mostly she was responsible for choosing suitable locations and booking these locations. In India she worked for The Great Rain and Bhowani Hub . She worked for Lawrence of Arabia for two years .

In 1960 she began a collaboration with director Otto Preminger that lasted until 1967 . Monley later turned to production and has been involved in films such as The Pack , Champions, and Highlander . Another work is Mister Johnson , shot in Nigeria . In 1993 Monley produced The Trail of the Wind in Namibia and Zimbabwe for the Walt Disney Company .

For numerous other films Monley worked in various functions, so for El Condor , The Black Windmill or Empire of the Sun .

The British Film Institute honored Monley with a Lifetime Achievement Award. She donated her estate to the “Margret Herrick Library” of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .

Web links

• Eva Monley in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Obituary of variety

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary in the New York Times
2. ↑ Obituary in Hollywood Reporter