Kitty Mattern

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Kitty Mattern (born December 28, 1912 in Vienna , † July 14, 1998 in Munich ; born Matfus ) was an Austrian actress .

Life

She attended secondary school and, as a child, played the role of a monkey in Goethe's Faust at the Burgtheater . After attending the Max Reinhardt Seminar , she made her debut at a Viennese cabaret in 1937 .

She went to America in 1938 and played on Broadway from 1939 to 1950 . In 1950 she received the 1st prize of the television company NBC Hollywood for best young actress. In 1951 she settled in Los Angeles, where she played theater and took on small roles in American films. She increasingly appeared on German and Austrian theaters, for example at the Hebbel Theater in 1959 , at the Münchner Kammerspiele in 1958 and 1964, and at the Schlosspark Theater from 1970 to 1972 .

It was thanks to a successful appearance in the musical Prärie-Saloon by Heinz Wunderlich and Lotar Olias in Berlin that she received the role of saloon host Rosemary in the Karl May film Old Shatterhand , although Helen Vita was actually intended for this role .

Kitty Mattern was married to the actor Siegfried Arno since 1953 . After his death in 1975 she lived in Munich.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Rudolf Ulrich: Austrians in Hollywood . 2nd edition, Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-901932-29-1 . In the first edition of the book, the wrong year of birth 1919 was given, which can also be found in some online sources.
  2. ↑ Michael Petzel: Karl-May-Filmbuch . 2nd Edition. Karl-May-Verlag, Radebeul 1999, ISBN 3-7802-0153-4 , p. 152
personal data
SURNAME Mattern, kitty
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1998
Place of death Munich