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- Died
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Wera Engels was born on May 12, 1909 in Kiel, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Ringer (1932), Le parfum de la dame en noir (1931) and Hong Kong Nights (1935). She was married to Ivan Lebedeff. She died on November 16, 1988 in Munich, Germany.
- SpouseIvan Lebedeff(January 25, 1941 - March 31, 1953) (his death)
- She and the silent movie actress Mary Pickford became best friends.
- By 1935 she returned to Germany, but left soon thereafter, because of the decline of the German movie industry caused by the Nazi propaganda machine. Back in Hollywood, she dated Gary Cooper for a while but married the Lithuanian-born actor/writer Ivan Lebedeff.
- She lived the rest of her life with Erna Hoffmann (widow of Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's friend and personal photographer) in the Munich area.
- Producers saw her as a cheap alternative to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich.
- Brunette German leading lady of the 1930's, who also filmed in France and had a brief and unsuccessful sojourn at RKO in Hollywood. While in America, she befriended Mary Pickford and married the expatriate Lithuanian actor Ivan Lebedeff. Engels was the daughter of an Admiral, former Governor of the German-controlled Chinese colony of Tsing-tau.
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