Geraldine Katt

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Geraldine Katt

Geraldine Katt (born February 4, 1921 in Vienna as Geraldine Kattnig ; † November 9, 1995 ) was an Austrian film actress .

Life

Katt received her training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and played on various stages in Vienna. She made her film debut when she was fifteen in Reinhold Schünzel's problematic film Das Mädchen Irene (1936), directed for Ufa . At the side of Lil Dagover and Sabine Peters , she played the younger sister of a selfish young girl who tries to prevent her attractive mother from remarrying by all means. This was immediately followed by a leading role in the Bavaria film The Voice of the Heart , in which Geraldine Katt played a music-loving princess who fell apart after meeting a famous singer ( Beniamino Gigli ) with her groom ( Ferdinand Marian ), but happily with him returns when she realizes that the singer's interest in her was purely musical. In Fritz Peter Buch's crime film Der Fall Deruga (1938) she appeared in the role of a young girl who investigates a murder case on her own in order to exonerate her suspect uncle, played by Willy Birgel . In the following film, Twelve Minutes After Twelve (1939), she was also seen as an amateur detective, this time in the role of a law student who has to escort a charming suspect, played by René Deltgen , on his escape during her investigation into a gang of diamond thieves because she is handcuffed to him. In the game of confusion, Affair (1940), Katt plays a capricious young wife at the side of Hans Brausewetter , who gets her husband's employer - played by Hans Zesch-Ballot - into trouble by being mistaken for his lover. In the comedy My daughter does not do that (1940) Geraldine Katt was again seen in the role of a young girl who serves her parents as an object of educational experiments until a sensible older relative ( Lina Carstens ) takes care of things. Katt had her next leading role in the film Little Girls - Big Worries (1941), in which she plays a romantic young girl who tries to seduce her best friend's father ( Fritz Odemar ).

Geraldine Katt had her last leading role after the end of the Second World War in the Austrian film Es lebe das Leben (1949), in which she portrayed a young girl who brings a Viennese black marketeer ( Fritz Lehmann ) back on track. She stopped her film appearances in 1951 with her last film Nacht am Mont Blanc .

Katt married the theater critic Anatol in Berlin in 1940, but separated from him again in 1949. In 1952 she married the theater director Hermann Juch. She became a religion teacher, moved to Switzerland and was involved in charitable work with a group of women.

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SURNAME Katt, Geraldine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kattnig, Geraldine (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1995