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 11 September 1914. Her dramatic success was assigned to the patronage of ]Joseph Goebbels
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, 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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. She allegedly cultivated leading figures in Mexican society, including Undersecretary of the Treasury Ramón Beteta Quintana and Secretary of the Interior Secretary of the Interior may refer to:
* Secretary of the Interior (Mexico)
* Interior Secretary of Pakistan
* Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (Philippines)
* United States Secretary of the Interior
See also
*Interior ministry ...
(and future president) Miguel Alemán Valdés
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His administ ...
.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'' (1935)
* '' Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne!'' (1935)
* ''Incognito
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* ''Incognito'', a 1915 film featuring Rae Berger
* ''Incognito'' (1937 film), a Dan ...
'' (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
Actresses from Cologne
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