Wera Engels

Wera Engels

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. She died on November 16, 1988 (age 79) in Munich, Germany.

  • Title: Wera Engels
  • Popularity: 1.108
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1909-05-12
  • Place of Birth: Kiel, Germany
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Wera Engels Movies

  • 1935
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    Together We Live

    Together We Live

    1 1935 HD

    A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who are appalled by the burgeoning radical movement...

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  • 1931
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    English as it is spoken

    English as it is spoken

    1 1931 HD

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    Scent of the Woman in Black

    Scent of the Woman in Black

    5.4 1931 HD

    The story takes place on the Riviera, where the title character may or may not be involved in various shades of skullduggery, including murder.

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  • 1935
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    Hong Kong Nights

    Hong Kong Nights

    3.5 1935 HD

    Customs agents track a ring of arms smugglers into Hong Kong.

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    Sweepstake Annie

    Sweepstake Annie

    3.7 1935 HD

    A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life...

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  • 1934
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    Fugitive Road

    Fugitive Road

    1 1934 HD

    An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.

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  • 1937
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    Talking About Jacqueline

    Talking About Jacqueline

    5.2 1937 HD

    Since her father died, rich and carefree Jacqueline Topelius makes magazine covers and causes social gossip with her flirtatious adventures around...

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  • 1933
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    The Great Jasper

    The Great Jasper

    1 1933 HD

    Generational saga about a failed streetcar conductor, who finds success as an Atlantic City fortune teller, and his son. Drama.

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  • 1927
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    Fighting the White Slave Traffic

    Fighting the White Slave Traffic

    1 1927 HD

    A young woman in Berlin is offered a job at a night club in Budapest. There she is abducted and brought to a brothel in Athens.

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  • 1931
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    Lucky children

    Lucky children

    1 1931 HD

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  • 1928
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    The Girl from Spree Woods

    The Girl from Spree Woods

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1927
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    Mädchenhandel - Eine internationale Gefahr

    Mädchenhandel - Eine internationale Gefahr

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1927
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    Lützow's Wild Hunt

    Lützow's Wild Hunt

    1 1927 HD

    Film by Richard Oswald.

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  • 1936
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    Stjenka Rasin

    Stjenka Rasin

    1 1936 HD

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    The Great Impersonation

    The Great Impersonation

    1 1935 HD

    The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders...

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  • 1930
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    The Gripper

    The Gripper

    5 1930 HD

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  • 1927
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    Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein?

    Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein?

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1928
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    Befehl zur Ehe

    Befehl zur Ehe

    1 1928 HD

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