Lilian Ellis
Lilian Ellis (born May 25, 1907 in Frankfurt am Main as Ellis Stampe Bendix ; † February 21, 1951 in Copenhagen , Denmark ) was a Danish dancer and actress in German film of the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Life
Lilian Ellis received a dance training and was discovered for the cinema at the age of 21. Here she stood in front of the camera both in Berlin and in Vienna. Initially she was given leading roles, Ellis had to be content with supporting supporting roles in romances and musical comedies in the sound film . In the last season of the Weimar Republic (1932/33) she was brought in as a ballet master and dancer at Berlin's Cabaret of Comedians . After the seizure of power , Ellis left Germany. She went to Hollywood in May 1934 at the invitation of producer Hal Roach , who had seen her on a visit to Vienna in the revue "We send love" at the Moulin Rouge . Later she performed as a dancer in New York and in 1937 in the Paris Alcazar , where she was able to celebrate a particular success with the dance of the Scheherazade. The war years spent Lilian Ellis in Denmark, where she also appeared during the occupation after a few years of film abstinence front of the camera.
Filmography
- 1928: Today the Strauss is playing
- 1929: Her Majesty's Lieutenant
- 1929: The trees are blooming again in the Prater
- 1930: Viennese hearts (in AT: Archduke Otto and the laundress)
- 1930: The love clover leaf
- 1930: 1000 words of German
- 1930: The mountain guide of Zakopane
- 1931: The merry women of Vienna
- 1931: The woman one speaks of
- 1931: The robbery of the Mona Lisa
- 1931: Kyritz-Pyritz
- 1931: The maneuver time is nice
- 1941: Alle går rundt og forelsker sig
- 1943: En melodi om våren
- 1944: Elly Petersen
- 1945: De kloge og vi gale
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. 570.
- Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene . Berghahn Books, 1999. ISBN 978-1571811561
Web links
- Lilian Ellis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lilian Ellis at filmportal.de
- Lilian Ellis at dfi.dk in the Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish)
- Lilian Ellis in the Dansk Film Database (Danish)
- Lilian Ellis in the database of the Svenska Filminstitutet (English / Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lilian Ellis: Mein Weg zum Film, in: Mein Film, No. 220, p. 6.
- ↑ Morten Piil : Danske filmskuespillere ( Danish ). Gyldendal, Copenhagen, Denmark 2006, ISBN 978-87-02-02104-2 , p. 94-.
- ↑ Ruth and Henrik Kendtes: Lilian Ellis Lind. Dansk skuespillerinde and danserinde. In: Gravsted.dk. Kendtes Gravsted, April 1, 2016, accessed September 23, 2016 (Danish).
- ↑ Lilian Ellis goes to Hollywood, in: Mein Film, No. 434, p. 5.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ellis, Lilian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stampe Bendix, Ellis (maiden name); Stampe Forchhammer, Lilian (other name); Ellis Lind, Lilian (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish dancer and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1951 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen , Denmark |