Sabine Bethmann

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Sabine Bethmann (born October 25, 1931 in Tilsit , East Prussia ) is a former German actress who starred in numerous movies in the 1950s and 1960s.

Life

The trained physiotherapist also worked as a photo model and was discovered for film at the age of 24. In 1956, Bethmann had her breakthrough with the film Forest Winter . Just one year later she played the partner of Hansjörg Felmy in the war drama Sharks and Small Fish and was a sought-after actress of sympathetic female characters in the sometimes cheerful, sometimes melodramatic films of the German economic boom. In 1959 Sabine Bethmann played in the Fritz Lang epics The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb alongside Paul Hubschmid . In the same year she even made the leap to Hollywood, where she directedAnthony Mann played the lead female role in the film Spartacus . After Stanley Kubrick took over the project, Bethmann was replaced by Jean Simmons , despite the advocacy of lead actor and producer Kirk Douglas .

It wasn't until almost two years later that Bethmann appeared in films - back in Germany - including those productions she is most likely to remember today: In 1963, alongside Peter van Eyck in the thriller Scotland Yard, Dr. Mabuse and 1969/70 in The Gentlemen with the White Waistcoat . This production, in which she acted alongside Martin Held , Heinz Erhardt and Walter Giller , also marked her departure from the big screen. In addition, she was occasionally seen in television films and series, such as Cliff Dexter (1966/67) and country doctor Dr. Brock (1967). Since her last cinema appearance in 1969/70, her engagements have been very rare; until 1983 she was only seen in five small and very small episode roles, such as in Der Alte (1978) and Manni, der Libero (1982).

Sabine Bethmann ended her acting career at the age of 52 and only took on a role again in 1990 in the short film Kaffeeklatsch at the side of her famous colleagues Edith Schollwer , Gudrun Genest , Klaramaria Skala and Edith Teichmann . In 2011 she showed herself in an interview regarding the collaboration with Fritz Lang. - Sabine Bethmann lives in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Retronews: Bad luck for Sabine Bethmann | FILMREPORTER.de. Retrieved March 12, 2020 .
  2. ^ Fritz Lang's Indian Epic Blu-ray - Debra Paget. Retrieved March 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bethmann, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Tilsit , East Prussia