Charlotte Susa
Charlotte Susa (* March 1, 1898 in Memel, † July 28, 1976 in Basel) was a German actress.
Career
The native Charlotta Wegmüller received after attending school in Tilsit singing lessons in Mannheim. In 1915 she was at Tilsit in a performance of Mozart's Magic Flute made her stage debut. She chose a stage name " Susa ", the maiden name of her mother Olga, a native Italian who led a corset shop in Memel. As a singer and actress, she appeared in various opera and operetta productions in Brandenburg, Essen, Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Cologne.
In the twenties, she has enjoyed success in the revues and confetti Today I 'm in love in Berlin Admiralty. Later they moved more to speaking roles. In 1929, she played at the Heidelberg Festival the beautiful Helen in Troilus and Cressida, then she looked at the Baranovsky stages Berlin.
From 1926 Charlotte Susa was also film actress. In the film, she represented the femme fatale, glamorous and sophisticated women of the world, several times as an agent or criminals as in the title role of The Tiger, where she played a burglar and murderer. From 1932 to 1934 she was at MGM in Hollywood under contract. Their arrival in Hollywood was taken in the trade press with great expectations for knowledge and Susa was hailed as a potential successor to Greta Garbo. Thus, the well-known journalist Elizabeth Yeaman wrote in her column of 15 August 1932 in conjunction with some other foreign stars who had received contracts with major studios:
Charlotte Susa but was like so many other imports no roles and soon returned to Germany. When they also in Germany received no more movie offers after 1940, she returned to the stage.
Charlotte Susa was married to director Paul Cablin, the actor Arthur Malkowsky and from 1939 with actor Andrews Engelmann.