Lilian Harvey

Lilian Harvey, born Lilian Helen Muriel Pape, ( born January 19, 1906 in London, † 27 July 1968 Juan -les -Pins, France ) was a British- German actress, singer and dancer.

Life

Lilian Harvey was born in 1906 in London as the daughter of an English mother and German businessman Walter Pape from Magdeburg. During the First World War, the family Pape just kept in Magdeburg, could not and would not, therefore, to return to England. The girl Lilian was housed in Switzerland in Solothurn with her aunt. In 1923 she completed her secondary schooling in Berlin, where the family had settled in the meantime. Then she broke away from the home environment. She attended the ballet school of the German State Opera and received first paid gigs as a dancer in Hungary and Austria. At the same time Lilian Pape took now with the birth of her mother's name Harvey.

From then on it went with the career upward. In February 1924, she received a first small role in Robert Lands " The Curse ", where she played the young Jewish girl " Ruth ". She acted in several silent films and was awarded in 1925 in the movie passion as a partner of Otto charge the main role. With Willy Fritsch, with whom she still turned eleven more films later, she stood for the first time in 1926 in the operetta film adaptation of The chaste Susanne front of the camera.

1930 came the decisive breakthrough when she advanced in the romantic comedy film Love Waltz with Fritsch dream pair of German film. Lilian Harvey himself was in the period following the sweetest girl in the world, as the press wrote. In 1931 the film The Congress Dances, where she in a scene " Christel's song", better known as The There's only one sings, which has remained an evergreen till today. The following films were dubbed in England and France, sometimes they were even, as it was then not unusual for the same multilingual rotated with different partners, thereby Lilian Harvey was well known abroad. She was invited to Hollywood and turned there four not very successful films.

1935 Harvey returned back to Nazi Germany. She turned even several successful films, including some with her ​​boyfriend, director Paul Martin. After it became known that she continued to receive Jewish colleagues in her house, she was observed by the Gestapo and was considered in the subsequent period as unreliable. 1939 Harvey finally left Germany and emigrated to Juan -les-Pins, France. After the occupation of southern France in 1942, she went again to Hollywood. Previously, she had appeared before French soldiers and Switzerland in programs for strengthening the morale. 1943 saw the Nazi regime Harvey from the German citizenship.

After the war, in 1946 Harvey returned to Paris. In the following years she made singing tours through Scandinavia and Egypt. Even in Germany, where she returned in 1949, where she took theater roles, she was warmly welcomed. However, they suffered because of a lung disease for a longer sanatorium in Switzerland. 1953 she married the Danish theater agent Hartvig Valeur -Larsen; but in 1955 handed Harvey a divorce. 1955/1956, she learned on a tour through the GDR Else Wirth (1907-2007), who became henceforth her ​​partner and collaborator. The divorce of Valeur -Larsen took place in 1957. From the Federal Government Harvey received compensation in the form of a pension for the assets confiscated during the Nazi era.

Lilian Harvey, the depressed and mentally very fragile life had died, retired in 1968 in her own Hotel in Juan -les -Pins on a protracted jaundice. Their final resting place is located in the cemetery Robiac in neighboring Antibes.

Prizes and awards

Filmography

Discography

• Darling, my heart lets you greet ( Werner Richard Heymann / Robert Gilbert ) ad Sound film "The Three of the gas station " (directed by Wilhelm Thiele ), 1930, Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch Orchestra, Odeon No. O 2993 a
• Two of the Zankstelle - Potpourri ( Edited by Peter Kreuder ), 1930, Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch Odeon Artist Orchestra, conductor: Peter Kreuder, Odeon No. 11557 b
• Christel's Song (That 's only one that comes not again " ), ( Werner Richard Heymann / Robert Gilbert ), from Ufa sound film " The Congress Dances "(directed by Erik Charell ), 1931, Lilian Harvey with orchestra, Parlophon No.. B 48067-1
• The There's only one that does not come back ( Just Once For All Time ), ( Werner Richard Heymann / Robert Gilbert ), from Ufa sound film " The Congress Dances " (directed by Erik Charell ), 1931, Lilian Harvey with orchestra, Columbia No. J 1742 (England)
• You have brought me into the house secretly love ( Werner R. Heymann / Robert Gilbert ) from the Ufaton film operetta " Your Highness commands " (directed by Hanns Schwarz ), 1931, Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch Orchestra under the baton of band Otto Dobrindt Parlophon No. 12435 B. II
• Somewhere in the world ( Werner Richard Heymann / Robert Gilbert ), 1932, Lilian Harvey with Ufa Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Gérard Jacobsen, Columbia No. J 1742
• We pay no rent more ( Richard Heymann / Robert Gilbert ) from the sound film " A blond dream " (directed by Paul Martin ), 1932, Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch Orchestra, Odeon No. O- 11684
• We pay no rent more ( Richard Heymann / Robert Gilbert ) from the sound film " A blond dream " (directed by Paul Martin ), 1932, Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch Orchestra, Parlophon No. B 47247 I
• You would have something for me (music by Jean Gilbert / Robert Gilbert ) from the sound-film "Two Hearts and a blow " (directed by Wilhelm Thiele ), 1932, Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch Orchestra, conductor: Otto Dobrindt Parlophon B 48136 I
• I wish I were a chicken ( Peter Kreuder / Hans Fritz Beckmann ) ad Ufafilm " lucky ones " (directed by Paul Martin ), 1936, Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch Odeon Dance Orchestra, No. Odeon O 25802 b
• I dance with you into heaven ( Friedrich Schröder / Hans Fritz Beckmann ) ad Ufa sound film "Seven slaps " (directed by Paul Martin ), 1937, Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch Parlophon Dance Orchestra, Conductor: Friedrich Schröder, Parlophon No. 49967 B - II
• China Man ​​** (music: F. Schroeder / Text: HF Beckmann ) from the sound film, " Seven slaps " (directed by Paul Martin ), 1937, Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch Odeon Dance Orchestra, Odeon No. O- 25903