Wera Engels

Wera Engels was a daughter of a German Admiral and Governor of the then German colony Tsing-tau-China. After successful leading roles in productions of the well-established German UFA-studios in Babelsberg as well as in France, Engels was invited to Hollywood. Producers saw her as a cheap alternative to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. She was contracted with RKO. Engels was given roles under Walter Futter and M.H. Hoffman. She and the silent movie super star Mary Pickford became best friends. By 1935 she returned to Germany, but left soon thereafter, because of the decline of the German movie industry caused by the Nazi propaganda machine. Back in Hollywood, she dated Gary Cooper for a while but married the Lithuanian-born actor/writer Ivan Lebedeff. After Lebedeff's death in 1953 of Angina pectoris, she moved back to Europe, where she stayed with several friends in London and Stockholm before she went back to Germany. She lived the rest of her life with Erna Hoffmann (widow of Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's friend and personal photographer) in the Munich area. She died on November 16, 1988 (age 79) in Munich, Germany.

Known For: Acting

Born: Kiel, Germany, 1909-05-12

Died: 1988-11-16

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1927	Lützow's Wild Hunt		0
2	1927	Fighting the White Slave Traffic	Irene Wendtland	0
3	1927	Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein?	Ellen Shiffer	0
4	1928	The Girl from Spree Woods		0
5	1928	Befehl zur Ehe		0
6	1930	The Copper	Mabel	50
7	1931	English as it is spoken		0
8	1931	Scent of the Woman in Black	Edith Rance	54
9	1931	Lucky children		0
10	1933	The Great Jasper	Norma McGowd	0
11	1934	Fugitive Road	Sonya Valinoff	0
12	1935	Sweepstake Annie	Baroness Yvonne Baritska	37
13	1935	Together We Live	Sonia	0
14	1935	The Great Impersonation	Princess Stephanie Elderstrom	80
15	1935	Hong Kong Nights	Trina Vidor	35
16	1936	Stjenka Rasin	Prinzessin Dolgoruki	0
17	1937	Talking About Jacqueline	Jacqueline Topelius	52

Wera Engels

Film

Television