Hilde Krüger (9 November 1912 – 8 May 1991) was a German
film actress
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who eventually settled in Mexico.
[Lynn p.413]
Life
Krüger was born in 1912. One source says she was born in Cologne
[ while another claims her birth occurred in Berlin on September 11, 1914. Her dramatic success was assigned to the patronage of ]Joseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels (; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician who was the ''Gauleiter'' (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 19 ...
, which happened after she appeared in the anti-Semitic film '' Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne! '' She appeared in twenty more films.[Verführungskunst war ihre Waffe]
Spiegel online, Retrieved 24 July 2016
She is suspected of working as a spy for the Abwehr
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, the German intelligence department during the Second World War
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, cultivating leading figures in Mexican society. She had intended to settle in Hollywood
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, but she struggled to find work and had to leave for Mexico.
She died in 1991 on a visit to Germany; the death certificate lists her residence as an apartment in New York City.
Selected filmography
* '' Playing with Fire'' (1934)
* '' She and the Three'' (1935)
* ''Stradivari
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'' (1935)
*''Peter, Paul and Nanette
''Peter, Paul and Nanette'' (German: ''Peter, Paul und Nanette'') is a 1935 German comedy film directed by Erich Engels and starring Hermann Thimig, Hans Junkermann and Hilde Krüger.Waldman p.255
Cast
* Hermann Thimig as Peter Pellmann / Paul Po ...
'' (1935)
* ''Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne!
''Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne!'' (german: Nur nicht weich werden, Susanne!) is a 1935 German drama film directed by Arzén von Cserépy, and starring Jessie Vihrog, Veit Harlan, and Willi Schur.
Plot
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'' (1935)
* ''Incognito
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* ''Incognito'' (1937 film), a Danish film
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'' (1936)
* '' The Man Who Couldn't Say No'' (1938)
* '' He Who Died of Love'' (1945)
* ''Adultery
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'' (1945)
References
Bibliography
* Kenneth Schuyler Lynn. ''Charlie Chaplin and His Times''. Simon and Schuster, 1997.
External links
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1912 births
1991 deaths
German film actresses
German emigrants to Mexico
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