Marina Orschel (born July 14, 1937) is a former
beauty queen
A beauty pageant is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include inner beauty, with criteria covering judging of personality, intelligence, ...
and
actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek ...
. In 1956 she won
Miss Germany
Miss Germany is a national beauty pageant in Germany. The contest was held for the first time in 1927.
History
In the past there were several organisations which claimed the title: In the 1920s already, German jurisdiction decided that the tit ...
and was 1st runner-up in the
Miss Universe contest. At first her measurements were announced as 36-22-34 inches (91-56-86 cm), but she handed a measuring tape to Miss England and corrected them to 40-27-34 inches (102–69–86 cm). Following these successes, she,
Ingrid Goude
Ingrid Goude (born May 26, 1937) is a Swedish actress and model. She became an actress in B-movie and sci-fi motion pictures of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Goude. Her father was the manager of a stee ...
, and
Carol Morris were offered contracts by
Universal Pictures
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, though Orschel's screen appearances are mainly in German films.
[Koper p.125]
Selected filmography
* ''
Das Sonntagskind'' (1956)
* ''
The Tattered Dress
''The Tattered Dress'' is a 1957 American CinemaScope film noir crime film released by Universal Pictures and directed by Jack Arnold. It stars Jeff Chandler, Jeanne Crain, Jack Carson, Gail Russell and Elaine Stewart.
Plot
In a California r ...
'' (1957)
* ''
Träume von der Südsee'' (1957)
* ''
Heute blau und morgen blau'' (1957)
* ''
Rivalen der Manege'' (1958)
* ''
The Csardas King
''The Csardas King'' (German: ''Der Czardas-König'') is a 1958 West German musical film directed by Harald Philipp and starring Gerhard Riedmann, Rudolf Schock and Elma Karlowa.Bock & Bergfelder p.61 It is a biopic of the life of the Hungarian o ...
'' (1958)
References
Bibliography
* Richard Koper. ''Fifties Blondes: Sexbombs, Sirens, Bad Girls and Teen Queens''. 2010.
* Bob Larkins & Boyd Magers. ''The Films of Audie Murphy''. McFarland, 2016.
External links
*
1937 births
Living people
German film actresses
Models from Berlin
Miss Universe 1956 contestants
German beauty pageant winners
Actresses from Berlin
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