Elli Marcus (11 December 1899 – 8 August 1977) was a German-American theater photographer.

Life

Born in Berlin, Marcus opened her first photo studio in Berlin in 1918 and specialised in

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and advertising photography. Outside her studio she worked mainly as a film and theatre photographer. After Hitler's

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in 1933, the early widowed Jewish woman emigrated with her son to Paris in 1934, where she opened another photo studio. When the National Socialists later occupied France, she fled to New York in March 1941. In Hollywood, she photographed Marlene Dietrich and other stars of the time. Among her pupils were

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and Fred Erismann.Elli Marcus
on artnet Marcus died in New York City at the age of 77.

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* 20th-century American photographers Theatrical photographers 1899 births 1977 deaths American women photographers Photographers from Berlin Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States 20th-century American women 20th-century German photographers {{US-photographer-stub