Phyllis Konstam
Phyllis Konstam, born Phyllis Esther Kohnstamm ( born April 14, 1907 in London, † August 20 1976 in Somerset ) was an English actress. She starred in eleven movies that were filmed 1928-1964, including four films directed Alfred Hitchcock.
Life
In 1931 she married the British tennis star Henry Austin, whom she had met on a cruise while traveling in the United States. This journey she undertook to participate in Frank Vospers " Murder on the Second Floor ." Together with her husband she was one of the idol couples of that time. From this marriage two children were born. Austin played tennis with Charlie Chaplin, was a friend of Daphne du Maurier and also met the wife of King Mary of Teck, and President Franklin Roosevelt.
In her autobiography, she wrote with her husband, and was called to the sport of tennis, " Mixed Doubles " in allusion, the spouse alternately written the chapters of the comprehensive nearly three hundred pages of the book.
In later years, Konstam involved with her husband worldwide charity events ( film and theater productions ) of the Oxford Group. Frank Buchman, the spiritual leader of this organization, takes in the memoirs of the spouses a large space. She herself is represented as ' Phyllis Austin ' along with her husband, each with 4 entries in the biography of Frank Buchman ..
References to Germany
Phyllis Konstam describes in the common life memories, as opposed to her husband that she came from a Jewish family. Your German grandfather Konstam (Note: Moritz Kohnstamm from Niederwerrn ) have never met. This had given up to be the original career aspiration rabbi because he did not accept all the teachings of the training. Instead, he would have become teachers and would have fed a family with little merit. After descriptions of her father Alfred Konstam would have been the greatest pleasure as a child, once a month to get an orange, which was divided between the five siblings. Her father had come along with his second brother Rudolf age of 17 to England, there to work with Cousin Hugo Konstam in the leather industry. His daughter was the stage name, Gertrude Kingston ' and was at the beginning of the 20th century, a well-known actress. In her home on Victoria Square this led a salon where she met with the literature and theater of the time. One of her closest friends was George Bernard Shaw, who wrote the drama " The Great Catherine ( 1913) " for it. Oscar ', one of Uncle Phyllis Konstams and the eldest brother of her father - Oskar Kohnstamm - was brilliant. During the First World War, his eldest son fell to German and the oldest two sons of her uncle Rudolf on the English side.