Elisabeth Bergner
(1900-1986), ActressSitter in 13 portraits
Born Elisabeth Ettel in Drohobycz, Poland and educated in Vienna, Bergner made her stage debut in Zurich in 1919 and gained an international reputation for her roles in plays directed by Max Reinhardt. Her film career began in 1923, working with director Paul Czinner, her later husband. On Hitler's rise to power in 1933 they moved to England, and she became a British citizen in 1938. In England she appeared in Catherine The Great (1934), Escape Me Never (1935, for which she received an Oscar nomination), As You Like It (1936), the same year in which she played the lead in The Boy David, written for her by J.M. Barrie. She spent the war years in America, returning to Europe in 1951.
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