Gretl Dupont

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Gretl Dupont (born Margarete Scherk ; born March 16, 1893 in Homburg vor der Höhe , † November 29, 1965 in Los Angeles ) was a German actress .

Live and act

Born Margarete Scherk, she appeared in the theater before the First World War and initially worked as a visiting tour artist. In the 20s followed his first smaller jobs in film, for example in 1926 in Das graue Haus and in Verbotene Liebe . In March 1930 she married the famous film director EA Dupont in London , with whom she emigrated to the USA at the beginning of 1933.

There Gretl Dupont resumed her work as an actress in 1939 and took part, especially during the Second World War, with tiny roles in a number of Hollywood films, which were mainly directed by German exiles such as Wilhelm Dieterle , Henry Koster and Fritz Lang . Some of these productions had anti-Nazi and propaganda content. In 1949 Gretl Dupont finally ended her film career.

Movies

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 569.

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personal data
SURNAME Dupont, Gretl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scherk, Margarete (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Homburg vor der Höhe
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1965
Place of death los Angeles