Gerda Maurus Net Worth is
$16 Million

Mini Biography

Gertrud Pfiel was created in current Croatia, the girl of the engineer and inventor. A strikingly gorgeous blonde with high cheekbones and expressive blue eye, she was raised in Vienna where she was qualified as a vocalist and dancer, getting into a theatrical profession by age fifteen. Until 1944, ‘Gertraud’ frequently performed at different theatres in Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna. Throughout a efficiency, she found the attention from the movie director Fritz Lang, who became immediately enamored with her. Lacking any audition, Lang gave her a starring part like a defecting Russian spy in Spies (1928), the achievement of which resulted in further back-to-back potential clients in Woman within the Moon (1929) and Hochverrat (1929). Lang eventually still left his wife and long-time collaborator, the screenwriter Thea von Harbou, even though Gerda Maurus went onto marry another prolific movie director, Robert A. Stemmle, who aimed her in Daphne und der Diplomat (1937). Through the audio period, Gerda was intermittently provided further possibilities to glow, including opposing Hans Albers (Dope (1932)) and Paul Hörbiger (Prinzessin Sissy (1939)), but she appeared somehow struggling to do it again the achievement of her previously (silent) movies. Her association, nevertheless tenuous, with Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels tainted her profession during the instant post-war period. While her performing ban was ultimately lifted, she hardly ever once again graced the display, but for many more years continuing on like a stage celebrity in Munich and Düsseldorf.

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