Eva Monley

Eva Monley ( born April 29, 1923 in Berlin, † November 12, 2011 in Nanyuki ) was a Kenyan film producer, location scout and production manager.

Life

Monley was born in Germany, but fled in 1936 before the Nazi regime in the colony of Kenya. There she learned to speak fluent Swahili and became an expert on East African cultures.

At the beginning of their working lives Monley was employed as a secretary in Nairobi; In 1950, she was first introduced to the world of film in contact when she was hired for King Solomon's Mines as a script girl and an assistant, who was shot in the colonies Kenya, the Belgian Congo and Tanganyika. After this movie, she was obliged for similar tasks in John Huston's The African Queen. For other American and British films, she worked in the following years in the background, so for Snows of Kilimanjaro, White woman on the Congo and John Ford's Mogambo 1953 incurred. Even outside of the African continent Monley has now been booked; usually she was responsible for seeking out suitable locations and recording these localities. In India, she worked for the great rain and node Bhowani. For two years she was active for Lawrence of Arabia.

In 1960 she began a lasting until 1967 collaboration with director Otto Preminger. Later Monley turned to the production and was involved in films such as The Pack, Champions and Highlander. Another work, the shot in Nigeria Mister Johnson dar. 1993 Monley produced for the Walt Disney Company, the track of the wind in Namibia and Zimbabwe.

For numerous other films Monley worked in a variety of functions, so for El Condor, The Black Windmill or Empire of the Sun.

The British Film Institute honored Monley with an award for lifetime achievement. Your estate they donated the " Margaret Herrick Library - " the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.