Kaaren Verne
Kaaren Verne (born April 6, 1918 in Berlin - † December 23, 1967 in Hollywood , Los Angeles , California ; actually Ingeborg Katherine Marie Rose Klinckerfuss ) was a German - American actress .
Life
Verne began her career as a theater actress and played among others at the Prussian State Theater in Berlin . In 1938 she left Germany and went to Great Britain , where she made her film debut in the film drama Ten Days in Paris in 1939 at the side of Rex Harrison and Leo Genn .
In 1940 Verne moved to Hollywood and in the same year starred with Walter Pidgeon as a partner in the thriller Sky Murder . The following year she had a role in the American propaganda film Underground . Also in 1941 she played the lead female role in Agents of the Night alongside Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre . In 1942 she directed the romance Kings Row with Robert Cummings . In 1943 she was seen as Charlotte Eberli in the crime film The Secret Weapon , a Sherlock Holmes film adaptation . In 1944 she played under the direction of Fred Zinnemann at the side of Spencer Tracy the role of Leni , the childhood friend of the male lead Georg Heisler , in the film drama The Seventh Cross .
Even after the Second World War , Verne continued to star in numerous Hollywood films. However, she was now mainly used in supporting roles and also played episode roles in American television series . In 1957 she had a supporting role in the musical Silk Stockings . She drew a character portrait in 1965 as Frau Lutz in the film drama The Ship of Fools . In 1966 she again had a supporting role as a German stewardess in Alfred Hitchcock's agent thriller The Torn Curtain .
Verne was married three times. From November 1944 Verne divorced her first husband, British band leader Arthur Young. In May 1945, shortly before her divorce from Young had been declared final, she married the actor Peter Lorre . The marriage ended in divorce in 1950, but Lorre kept in touch with Verne even after the divorce. Until her death, Verne was married to the film historian James Powers for the third time.
Filmography (selection)
- 1939: Ten Days in Paris
- 1940: Sky Murder
- 1941: Underground
- 1941: Agents of the Night ( All Through The Night )
- 1942: Kings Row
- 1943: The Secret Weapon ( Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon )
- 1944: The Seventh Cross ( The Seventh Cross )
- 1957: silk stockings ( Silk Stockings )
- 1965: The Ship of Fools ( Ship of Fools )
- 1966: Torn Curtain ( Torn Curtain )
- 1966: Madame X
Web links
- Kaaren Verne in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kaaren Verne in the All Movie Guide (English)
- Kaaren Verne in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ^ Piet Hein Honig, Hanns-Georg Rodek : 100001. The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century. Showbiz-Data-Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1992, ISBN 3-929009-01-5 , p. 991.
- ↑ Kaaren Verne in the All Movie Guide (English)
- ↑ Stephen D. Youngkin: The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre . University Press of Kentucky, 2005, ISBN 0-8131-2360-7 , pp. 231ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Verne, Kaaren |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klinckerfuss, Ingeborg Katherine Marie Rose (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 1967 |
| Place of death | Hollywood , Los Angeles , California |