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- Birth nameLeopoldine Eugenie Amelie Konstantin
- Leopoldine Konstantin was born on March 12, 1886 in Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Notorious (1946), Lola Montez (1918) and Die Insel der Seligen (1913). She was married to Geza Herczeg and Alexander Strakosch. She died on December 14, 1965 in Hietzing, Vienna, Austria.
- SpousesGeza Herczeg(1924 - 1938) (divorced)Alexander Strakosch(1906 - 1924) (divorced, 1 child)
- Divorced in 1938, she moved to the United States via Britain. She spoke no English at that time, and had to take a job as a factory worker until, after intensive language study, she landed a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film Notorious, in which she played Claude Rains' mother, although she was only 3 years older than he.
- Austrian theatre and film character actress, on stage at the Deutsche Theater in Berlin from 1907. Acted in German sound films during the first half of the 1930's, before moving to Britain and then to the United States. Best remembered internationally for her sole Hollywood film role, as the autocratic, venomous mother of Claude Rains (who was just three years her junior) in Hitchcock's Notorious (1946).
- Lost her son during a bomb attack on London in World War II.
- Her most important movie in the USA was Hitchcock's "Notorious (1948).
- In 1923 she had a house built in Westerland for herself and her son Alexander.
- (Of her role in Alfred Hitchcock 's Notorious (1946) and why she did not pursue further work in Hollywood): My very first part and they made me in this monster!
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