Gertraud Marianne South ( Münzel, 17 March 1930 – 14 October 2021), better known as Traudl Stark, was an Austrian

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in German cinema. Stark was born in

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on 17 March 1930, to secretary Siegfried Stark and Margarete Münzel. Her parents married later. She started her career in German cinema in 1934, and became known as "The Shirley Temple of Austria". During

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, she appeared in a number of

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. Between 1945 and 1947 she also acted on stage in Vienna. In 1948 she married Jack Elliot from

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and went to live with him in the United States, where they had two children together. She later married her second husband, Thomas South. From 1973, she lived in

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, where she died on 14 October 2021, at the age of 91.

Filmography

* ''

Asew ''Asew'' or ''Double-Agent Asew'' or ''Asew the Agent Provocateur'' (german: Lockspitzel Asew) is a 1935 German-Austrian thriller film directed by Phil Jutzi and starring Fritz Rasp, Olga Tschechowa, and Hilde von Stolz. It was shot at the Sie ...

'' (1935) * ''Manja Valewska'' or ''Maria Walewska'' (1936) * '' His Daughter is Called Peter'' (1936) * ''

Darling of the Sailors ''Darling of the Sailors'' (German: ''Liebling der Matrosen'') is a 1937 Austrian comedy film directed by Hans Hinrich and starring Traudl Stark, Wolf Albach-Retty and Richard Romanowsky.Tuska, Piekarski & Wilson p.306 The film's sets were design ...

'' (1937) * ''Peter im Schnee'', English title: ''Peter in the Snow'' (1937) * ''Prinzessin Sissy'' or ''Prinzessin Wildfang'', English title: ''Princess Sissy'' (1938) * '' Mutterliebe'', English title: ''A Mother's Love'' (1939) * ''

The Fox of Glenarvon ''The Fox of Glenarvon'' (German: ''Der Fuchs von Glenarvon'') is a German propaganda film from the Nazi era portraying the years of the Irish fight for independence during World War I. It was produced in 1940 by Max W. Kimmich and starred Olga ...

'' (1940) * '' Leidenschaft'', English title: "Passion" (1940)

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Photographs of Traudl Stark
1930 births 2021 deaths Austrian child actresses Austrian film actresses Actresses from Vienna Austrian emigrants to the United States {{Austria-actor-stub