Mona Maris

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Mona Maris (born November 7, 1903 in Buenos Aires , Argentina , † March 23, 1991 ibid) was an Argentinian-born actress in international film.

Mona Maris y Carlos Gardel.jpg

Live and act

The daughter of a Baskin and a Franco-Catalan was born in the Argentine capital and grew up, half orphan at an early age, with her grandmother in France or in a French convent. In 1921 Mona returned to Buenos Aires with her mother for a few years. Around 1925 she was given the chance to appear in front of the camera as an actress for the first time. When she came to Germany for the first time in 1926 after another role in France, she was amazed at how friendly the people across the Rhine were to her, in view of the ubiquitous tirades of hatred that were spat out against everything German in French society and politics in those years opposite were. Mona Maris played leading and major supporting roles in a number of German screen productions in 1927/28 and often embodied beguiling beauties but also lively representatives of the high nobility (Princess Antoinette in the mistaken play Der Fürst von Pappenheim , the Tsarina in the costume piece Marquis d'Eon , the spy of the Pompadour ).

After four German silent films, Mona Maris tried her luck in Hollywood at the invitation of the film tycoon Joseph Schenck at the turn of the year 1928/29, along with the introduction of the talkie , but found it difficult to gain a foothold there due to her poor knowledge of English and a heavy accent. Instead, Mona Maris was used primarily in Spanish-language productions and version films for Fox Film Corporation. Her role model was that of the seductive and passionate Latina with a sometimes dubious character who leads the men who turn on her to ruin. In her few English-language films of the early 1930s, Mona Maris had colleagues such as the still completely unknown Humphrey Bogart , Warner Baxter , Buster Keaton and Cary Grant as partners. During this time, Maris was in a relationship with MGM director Clarence Brown for a number of years . A personal triumph was granted to her in 1934 with the lead role in the Argentine production Cuesta abajo , where Mona Maris had the legendary tango musician Carlos Gardel as a film partner .

In 1935, accompanied by Gardel's sudden accidental death, the attractive and for her time extremely independent artist temporarily said goodbye to work in front of the camera and only returned to film five years later with rather small roles. 1950 Mona Maris largely ended her work as an actress. Ten years later, the Argentine married the Dutch millionaire Herman Rick and retired with him to her private life in Lima , Peru. Further stations in life were The Hague, Seville and New York City. From 1970 Mona Maris lived in the western Argentine winter sports resort of San Carlos de Bariloche on the eastern edge of the Andes before she returned to Buenos Aires in 1976 because of the cold winter. It came as a big surprise when the long-forgotten ex-diva with a grandmother role in 1984 in Camila - The Girl and the Priest appeared again in front of the camera. It was to be her last acting work.

Mona Maris is buried in the Cementerio de la Chacarita in the Argentine capital.

Filmography

  • 1925: The Apache
  • 1926: La bonne hôtesse
  • 1927: The Little People
  • 1927: The Prince of Pappenheim
  • 1927: The serfs
  • 1928: Marquis d'Eon, the Pompadour's spy
  • 1928: The women of Urban Hell
  • 1929: Manuela (Romance of the Rio Grande)
  • 1930: Under a Texas Moon
  • 1930: The Arizona Kid
  • 1930: One Mad Kiss
  • 1931: Seas Beneath
  • 1931: Who does not allow others love (The Passionate Plumber)
  • 1932: South of the Rio Grande
  • 1932: The Death Kiss
  • 1932: The Man Called Back
  • 1933: Secrets
  • 1933: Forbidden Melody
  • 1934: Cuesta abajo
  • 1934: Temple of Beauty (Kiss and Make-Up)
  • 1934: White Heat
  • 1935: El cantante de Napoles
  • 1935: Asegure a so mujer
  • 1940: Flight from Destiny
  • 1941: Underground
  • 1941: Law of the Tropics
  • 1942: The Queen of Broadway (My Gal Sal)
  • 1942: Pacific Rendezvous
  • 1942: I Married an Angel
  • 1942: Berlin Correspondent
  • 1943: Tampico
  • 1944: The Falcon in Mexico
  • 1944: The Desert Hawk
  • 1946: Heartbeat
  • 1946: With brush and sword (Monsieur Beaucaire)
  • 1950: The Sword of Vengeance (The Avengers)
  • 1952: La mujer de las camelias
  • 1984: Camila - The Girl and the Priest (Camila)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mona Maris in: Her Endless Hunt , recorded by William H. McKegg, published in Picture Play Magazine, January - June 1930
  2. ↑ Your alleged in some sources, nameless participation in a fifth film, Richard Eichberg's staging Rutschbahn , is nowhere proven (not even in Gerhard Lamprecht's “German Silent Films 1903–1931”)
  3. ↑ Announcement in the Lincoln Journal Star (Nebraska) January 15, 1929
  4. ^ Reported in the Sarasota Herald Tribune on July 5, 1985

literature

  • Ephraim Katz : The Film Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. Revised by Fred Klein and Ronald Dean Nolen. New York 2001, p. 902

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personal data
SURNAME Maris, Mona
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Capdeville, Mona Maria Emita; Capdevielle, Maria Rose Amita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION argentinian film actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires , Argentina
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1991
Place of death Buenos Aires , Argentina