Lisl Valetti
Lisl Valetti (born November 14, 1914 in Berlin , Germany , † December 28, 2004 in Studio City , Los Angeles , California , USA ) was an Austrian actress .
Life
The daughter of the actors Rosa Valetti and Ludwig Roth was brought to film by her mother at the age of 17 and made her debut with the tiny part of a boarding school kitchen maid in Leontine Sagan's classic Girl in Uniform . Lisl Valetti made her stage debut the following year. After only one season at the Deutsches Theater Berlin (1932/33), she was excluded from the cultural scene as a Jew as a result of the National Socialist seizure of power in Germany.
Lisl Valetti then went to her mother's home country, Austria , in 1934 , and found employment in Vienna at the Theater in der Josefstadt and at the literature cabaret on the Naschmarkt . In May 1936 she traveled on to England, two years later Lisl Valetti arrived in the USA. In Los Angeles she was initially shown in emigrant performances, sometimes sponsored by The Tribune , such as a one-act evening in February 1939. Since the USA entered World War II, Lisl Valetti has made miniature appearances in numerous, predominantly anti-Nazi propaganda-oriented film productions. Lisl Valetti has been de facto unemployed since the early 1950s: in 1951 she was only used as a light double in Charlie Chaplin's limelight , in 1956 she worked as an extra in the monumental production Around the World in 80 Days .
Lisl Valetti was married to Felix Bernstein, who was ten years her senior, who was of Romanian origin and who was in charge of the MGM rental company in Vienna until 1938 and who was a technical advisor to several Hollywood films when he emigrated to the United States, some of which his wife had also worked in.
Filmography
- 1931: girls in uniform
- 1942: I Married an Angel
- 1942: Reunion in France
- 1943: Assignment in Brittany
- 1943: Dangerous honeymoon
- 1943: Executioners die too
- 1943: Appointment in Berlin
- 1944: the seventh cross
- 1945: Her Highness and the Bellboy
- 1945: Tarzan and the Amazons
- 1948: Letter from a stranger
- 1948: Berlin Express
- 1949: The Doctor and the Girl
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. 612.
Web links
- Lisl Valetti at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lisl Valetti at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Valetti, Lisl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Valetti, Elisabeth (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 2004 |
| Place of death | Studio City , Los Angeles , California , USA |