Wera Engels
Acting
Biography
Wera Engels was a daughter of a German Admiral and Governor of the then German colony Tsing-tau-China. After successful leading roles in productions of the well-established German UFA-studios in Babelsberg as well as in France, Engels was invited to Hollywood. Producers saw her as a cheap alternative to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. She was contracted with RKO. Engels was given roles under Walter Futter and M.H. Hoffman. She and the silent movie super star Mary Pickford became best friends. By 1935 she returned to Germany, but left soon thereafter, because of the decline of the German mov…
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Known For
The Girl from Spree Woods
1928 · Movie
Talking About Jacqueline
1937 · Movie
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
1927 · Movie
Sweepstake Annie
1935 · Movie
Together We Live
1935 · Movie
The Copper
1930 · Movie
The Great Impersonation
1935 · Movie
Scent of the Woman in Black
1931 · Movie
Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein?
1927 · Movie
English as it is spoken
1931 · Movie
The Ringer
1932 · Movie
Stjenka Rasin
1936 · Movie