Wera Engels Net Worth
Wera Engels Net Worth is
$700,000
Wera Engels Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Wera Engels was a German actress.Wera Engels was a daughter of a German Admiral and Governor of the then German colony Tsing-tau-China. After successful leading roles in productions of the well-established German UFA-studios in Babelsberg as well as in France, Engels was invited to Hollywood. Producers saw her as a cheap alternative to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. She was contracted with RKO. Engels was given roles under Walter Futter and M.H. Hoffman. She and the silent movie super star Mary Pickford became best friends. By 1935 she returned to Germany, but left soon thereafter, because of the decline of the German movie industry caused by the Nazi propaganda machine. Back in Hollywood, she dated Gary Cooper for a while but married the Lithuanian-born actor/writer Ivan Lebedeff. After Lebedeff's death in 1953 of Angina pectoris, she moved back to Europe, where she stayed with several friends in London and Stockholm before she went back to Germany. She lived the rest of her life with Erna Hoffmann (widow of Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's friend and personal photographer) in the Munich area. | Date Of Birth | May 12, 1909 |
| Died | 1988-11-16 |
| Place Of Birth | Kiel, Germany |
| Height | 5' 6" (1.68 m) |
| Profession | Actress |
| Spouse | Ivan Lebedeff |
| Star Sign | Taurus |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | She appeared in Marcel L'Herbier's movie "Le parfum de la dame en noir" (1930). In the following years she continued working for the international film business, in Germany as well as France, and from 1933 to 1935 in the USA. |
| 2 | Producers saw her as a cheap alternative to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. |
| 3 | She lived the rest of her life with Erna Hoffmann (widow of Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's friend and personal photographer) in the Munich area. |
| 4 | By 1935 she returned to Germany, but left soon thereafter, because of the decline of the German movie industry caused by the Nazi propaganda machine. Back in Hollywood, she dated Gary Cooper for a while but married the Lithuanian-born actor/writer Ivan Lebedeff. |
| 5 | The actress Wera Engels had a short but very eventful film career. |
| 6 | After Lebedeff's death in 1953 of angina pectoris, she moved back to Europe, where she stayed with several friends in London and Stockholm before she went back to Germany. |
| 7 | She and the silent movie actress Mary Pickford became best friends. |
| 8 | Brunette German leading lady of the 1930's, who also filmed in France and had a brief and unsuccessful sojourn at RKO in Hollywood. While in America, she befriended Mary Pickford and married the expatriate Lithuanian actor Ivan Lebedeff. Engels was the daughter of an Admiral, former Governor of the German-controlled Chinese colony of Tsing-tau. |
Actress
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Man spricht über Jacqueline | 1937 | Jacqueline Topelius | |
| Stjenka Rasin | 1936 | Prinzessin Dolgoruki | |
| The Great Impersonation | 1935 | Princess Stephanie Elderstrom | |
| Hong Kong Nights | 1935 | Trina Vidor | |
| Together We Live | 1935 | Sonia | |
| Sweepstake Annie | 1935 | Baroness Yvonne Baritska | |
| Fugitive Road | 1934 | Sonya Valinoff | |
| The Great Jasper | 1933 | Norma McGowd | |
| Lumpenkavaliere | 1932 | Diebin | |
| Der Hexer | 1932 | Cora Ann Milton | |
| Kinder des Glücks | 1931 | ||
| Le parfum de la dame en noir | 1931 | Edith Rance (as Vera Engels) | |
| L'anglais tel qu'on le parle | 1931 | Miss Betty Hogson (as Véra Engels) | |
| Der Greifer | 1930 | Mabel (German Version) (as Vera Engel) | |
| Fighting the White Slave Traffic | 1929 | Irene Wendtland | |
| The Streets of London | 1929 | Alida | |
| Befehl zur Ehe | 1928 | Zofe Hella | |
| Das Spreewaldmädel | 1928 | ||
| Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein? | 1927 | Ellen Shiffer, seine Tochter | |
| Lützows wilde verwegene Jagd | 1927 | Eleanore Prochaska, ein Bürgermädchen | |
| Mädchenhandel - Eine internationale Gefahr | 1927 | Irene Wendtland |
Known for movies
Man spricht über Jacqueline (1937)
as Jacqueline Topelius
Stjenka Rasin (1936)
as Prinzessin Dolgoruki
Fugitive Road (1934)
as Sonya Valinoff
Hong Kong Nights (1935)
as Trina Vidor