Elisabeth Bergner

Elisabeth Bergner
Elisabeth Bergner, 1935
Born
Ella vel Ettel Bergner[1]

(1897-08-22)22 August 1897
Drohobych, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Drohobych, Ukraine)
Died12 May 1986(1986-05-12) (aged 88)
London, England
OccupationActress
Years active1924–1984
Spouse
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(m. 1933; died 1972)​
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Elisabeth Bergner during her visit to Israel, 1949. Beno Rothenberg, Meitar collection, National Library of Israel
Elisabeth Bergner during her visit to Israel, 1949. Beno Rothenberg, Meitar collection, National Library of Israel

Elisabeth Bergner (22 August 1897 – 12 May 1986) 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.[3] She played Gemma, first in London and then in the Broadway debut, and in 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.[4]

  1. ^ "Birth certificate of Elisabeth Bergner giving forename as "Ella vel Ettel"". Retrieved 17 November 2024.
  2. ^ "Elisabeth Bergner". Nndb.com. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  3. ^ Biography (1943), playbill.com. Accessed 13 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Broadway Show Log". The Billboard. Vol. 56, no. 20. Nielsen Business Media. 13 May 1944. p. 29. Retrieved 2 December 2017 – via Google Books.