Elisabeth Bergner was an Austrian-British actress. Primarily a stage actress, her career flourished in Berlin and Paris, before she moved to London to work in films. Her signature role was Gemma Jones in Escape Me Never, a play written for her by Margaret Kennedy. She played Gemma first in London, and then in the Broadway debut and a film version, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1943, Bergner returned to Broadway in the play The Two Mrs. Carrolls, for which she won the Distinguished Performance Medal from the Drama League.
Elisabeth Bergner
Active - 1924 - 2015 |
Birth - Aug 22, 1897 |
Death - May 12, 1986 |
Genres - Drama, Romance, Comedy, Silent Film, Action-Adventure
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Subgenres - Silent Film, Biographical Film, Melodrama, Propaganda Film, Romantic Comedy
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Elisabeth Ettel, Elizabeth Bergner-
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