Laya Raki

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Laya Raki , actually Brunhilde Marie Alma Herta Jörns (* July 27, 1927 Hamburg / Calvörde ; † December 21, 2018 in Beverly Hills ), was a German film actress and the first so-called beauty dancer of the German post-war film, who through her roles in English-language films and television productions also became internationally known.

Raki in 1954 with a reporter in Indonesia

Life

The daughter of the acrobat Maria Althoff and the casual worker (partner acrobat, clown, tinker) Wilhelm Jörns always wanted to be a dancer. The stage name Laya Raki came about through her admiration for the dancer La Jana and her preference for Raki . From 1947 she caused a stir with her dance performances in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and other major cities. Their appearance in Berlin in 1950 became the talk of the town.

The film company DEFA gave her a small role in the famous film The Council of the Gods . The Berliner Morgenpost wrote enthusiastically that she had a real talent for dancing, and the expression on her expressive face knew an astonishing abundance of nuances. In the same year, the Real Film press department presented it as a new discovery for the film The Third From Right . In it she performed rumba dancing with two asterisks on her nipples, which at the time was still considered scandalous. Similarly sparingly dressed, she danced in marriage for one night and other films.

On the basis of false promises to get film roles in England and also in Hollywood, she went to London in 1954. As a result, however, she managed to get roles in British films. For example, she played the seductive wife of a Māori chief in the Rank film The Seekers ( Demons of the South Seas ) . After taking acting classes in Hollywood, she also received roles in several British television productions. The television series Crane made her a top star on British television. In 39 episodes, she played Patrick Allen's partner from 1962 to 1965 . He played the bar owner and smuggler Richard Crane and she played Halima, his Moroccan assistant and manager of his bar.

Laya Raki shaped the 1950s and 1960s like hardly any other show or glamor girl - initially as a dancer on stages, in films and television productions, later also posing in front of cameras as a pin-up model for film postcards, magazines and illustrated magazines all over the world. In 1962 she recorded the songs Faire l'amour and Oh Johnny not park here . The latter was banned in 1964 by the Nuremberg District Court.

At the age of 30 she married the Australian actor Ron Randell in London ; the marriage lasted until his death on June 11, 2005.

Filmography

  • 1950: The Council of the Gods ( Council of the Gods )
  • 1950: The third from the right ( L'Terza da destra )
  • 1953: marriage for one night ( Marriage for One Night )
  • 1953: The Rose of Stamboul ( The Rose of Stamboul )
  • 1954: Demons of the South Seas ( The Seekers )
  • 1954: Up to His Neck
  • 1954: At first it was sin ( The Beginning what Sin )
  • 1955: The Ambassador's Wife ( The Ambassador's Wife )
  • 1955: Closed roads ( Camino cortado )
  • 1955: Love, Death and the Devil ( The Adventures of Quentin Durward )
  • 1956: kiss me again
  • 1956: red poppy seeds
  • 1957: OSS: Operation Sweet Talk (TV series, episode)
  • 1958: The Song of Naples, ... and forgive me my guilt ( Ascoltami )
  • 1960: Hawaiian Eye: Kim Quixote (TV series, episode)
  • 1960: Alcoa presents: One step beyond: House of the Dead (TV series, one episode)
  • 1962: The Beachcomber: Pat Hand (TV series, episode)
  • 1962: Long Live the Sultan (TV series, one episode)
  • 1962: Tales of Wells Fargo: The Gold Witch (TV series, episode)
  • 1963: Crane (TV series, 39 episodes)
  • 1963: The Nylon Sling (Nylon Noose)
  • 1963: The riddle of the red tassel
  • 1964: The Galant One
  • 1964: The house on the hill
  • 1965: I Spy ( Rackets and Guns ): Dragon's Teeth (TV series, an episode)
  • 1966: The Poppy Is Also a Flower ( The Poppy Is Also a Flower )
  • 1966: The Cursed of the Pampas ( Savage Pampas )

Web links

Commons : Laya Raki  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Other information: Calvörde near Helmstedt
  2. ↑ Ecran Magazine # 1581, 32 pages, published in Chile in Spanish on May 12, 1961.
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel , 17/1964: Raki smoky
personal data
SURNAME Raki, Laya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jörns, Brunhilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dancer, singer, actress and model
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg or Calvörde
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 2018
Place of death Beverly Hills