Cornell Borchers (16 March 1925 – 12 May 2014) was a Lithuanian-German actress and singer, active in the late 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for her roles opposite Montgomery Clift in '' The Big Lift'' (1950) and
Errol Flynn
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and
Nat King Cole
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in ''
Istanbul
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'' (1957). She was said to resemble Ingrid Bergman in mid-1950s reviews.
Biography
Borchers was born in
Šilutė
Šilutė (; previously ''Šilokarčiama''; ) is a city in the south of the Klaipėda County in western Lithuania. The city was part of the Klaipėda Region and ethnographic Lithuania Minor. Šilutė was the interwar period, interwar capital of Š ...
Lithuania
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magazine
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'' Neue Filmwelt'' of 1949, Volume 3, Issue 4. She won a
BAFTA
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Film Award in the category of Best Foreign Actress in 1955 for the
movie
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'' The Divided Heart'' (1954). She retired from acting at age 34 to raise her daughter.
She was married twice, first to Bruce Cunningham and then to Dr. Anton Schelkopf, a psychologist, physician and film producer, whom she first met when she starred in his films '' School for Marriage'' (1954) and '' Rot ist die Liebe'' (1957), by whom she had one daughter, Julia Borchers-Schelkopf, born in Munich, on 15 October 1962. She afterwards lived in
Bavaria
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,
Germany
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Oasis
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*'' Never Say Goodbye'' (1956) as Lisa Gosting (also performer: "For the First Time")
*'' Rot ist die Liebe'' (1957) as Rosemarie
*''
Istanbul
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'' (1957) as Stephanie Bauer / Karen Fielding
*'' Flood Tide'' (1958) as Anne Gordon
*'' Arzt ohne Gewissen'' (1959) as Harriet Owen