Brigitte Helm

Brigitte Helm
Brigitte Helm
	Brigitte Helm in 1928
Born	Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm; 17 March 1908; Berlin, German Empire
Died	11 June 1996 (aged 88); Ascona, Switzerland
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1927–1935; 1978
Spouse(s)	Rudolf Weissbach (m.1928–div.1934)[1]; Dr. Hugo von Kuenheim (m. 1935–1986; his death)
Children	4

Brigitte Helm (born Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm, 17 March 1908 – 11 June 1996) was a German actress, best remembered for her dual role as Maria and her double the Maschinenmensch in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film Metropolis.

Career

Born Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm in Berlin, Helm's first role was that of Maria in Metropolis which she began work on while only 18 years old. After Metropolis, Helm made over 30 other films, including talking pictures, before retiring in 1935. Her other appearances include The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927), Alraune (1928), L'Argent (1928), Gloria (1931), The Blue Danube (1932), L'Atlantide (1932), and Gold (1934). Helm was considered for the title role in Bride of Frankenstein before Elsa Lanchester was given the role.[2]

Though having a 10-year contract with UFA expiring in 1935, Helm incurred the wrath of Nazi Germany for "race defilement" in marrying her second husband Dr. Hugo Kunheim, an industrialist of Jewish background.[3] Helm was also involved in several traffic accidents, and was briefly imprisoned.[4][5] According to Otto Dietrich's book The Hitler I Knew, Adolf Hitler saw that manslaughter charges against her from an automobile accident were dropped.[6]

Helm retired from films because she was "disgusted with the Nazi takeover of the film industry".[7] In 1935, she moved to Switzerland where she later had four children with von Kunheim. In her later years, she refused to grant any interviews concerning her film career.

Selected filmography

Metropolis (1927), director: Fritz Lang
At the Edge of the World, (Am Rande der Welt, 1927), director: Karl Grune
The Love of Jeanne Ney (Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney , 1927), director: G.W. Pabst
The Devious Path also known as Abwege (1928) director: G.W. Pabst
L'Argent (1928), director: Marcel L'Herbier
Alraune (1928), director: Henrik Galeen; title role
Secrets of the Orient (Geheimnisse des Orients, 1928), director: Alexandre Volkoff
Yacht of the Seven Sins (Die Yacht der sieben Sünden, 1928), directors: Jacob Fleck, Luise Fleck
Scandal in Baden-Baden (Skandal in Baden-Baden, 1929), director: Erich Waschneck
The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna (Die wunderbare Lüge der Nina Petrowna, 1929), director: Hanns Schwarz
Alraune (1930), director: Richard Oswald; title role
The Singing City (Die singende Stadt, 1930), director Carmine Gallone
Gloria (1931), director: Hans Behrendt
In the Employ of the Secret Service (Im Geheimdienst, 1931), director: Gustav Ucicky
The Blue Danube (1932), director: Herbert Wilcox
The Countess of Monte Cristo (Die Gräfin von Monte-Christo, 1932), director: Karl Hartl
The Mistress Of Atlantis (Die Herrin von Atlantis, 1932) director: G.W. Pabst
Three on a Honeymoon (Hochzeitsreise zu dritt, 1932), director: Erich Schmidt
Honeymoon Trip (Voyage de noces, 1933), directors: Germain Fried, Joe May, Erich Schmidt
Happy Days in Aranjuez (Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez, 1933), director: Johannes Meyer
The Marathon Runner (Der Läufer von Marathon, 1933), director: Ewald André Dupont
Spies at Work (Spione am Werk, 1933), director: Gerhard Lamprecht
Inge and the Millions (Inge und die Millionen, 1933), director: Erich Engel
The Star of Valencia (1933)
Gold (1934), director: Karl Hartl
The Island (1934)
Count Woronzeff (Fürst Woronzeff, 1934), director: Arthur Robison
An Ideal Husband (Ein idealer Gatte, 1935), director: Herbert Selpin
Wie im Traum (1978, short), director: Egon Haase

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References

Notes

https://androom.home.xs4all.nl/index.htm?biography/p009933.htm
Curtis, pp. 243–44
p.127 Huff, David Stewart Film in the Third Reich University of California Press
Obituary: Brigitte Helm - Obituaries - News. The Independent (1996-06-18). Retrieved on 2013-11-02.
Portrait of the actress Brigitte Helm by Thomas Staedeli Archived February 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Cyranos.ch. Retrieved on 2013-11-02.
p.218 Dietrich, Otto The Hitler I Knew Methuen, 1957
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/14/arts/brigitte-helm-88-cool-star-of-fritz-lang-s-metropolis.html

Bibliography

Curtis, James (1998). James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters. Boston, Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-19285-8.
Semler, Daniel (2008). Brigitte Helm: Der Vamp des deutschen Films. Munich, Belleville. ISBN 3-936298-56-4

External links

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[1] ttps://androom.home.xs4all.nl/index.htm?biography/p009933.htm

[2] Curtis, pp. 243–44

[3] .127 Huff, David Stewart Film in the Third Reich University of California Press

[4] Obituary: Brigitte Helm - Obituaries - News. The Independent (1996-06-18). Retrieved on 2013-11-02.

[5] Portrait of the actress Brigitte Helm by Thomas Staedeli Archived February 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Cyranos.ch. Retrieved on 2013-11-02.

[6] .218 Dietrich, Otto The Hitler I Knew Methuen, 1957

[7] ttps://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/14/arts/brigitte-helm-88-cool-star-of-fritz-lang-s-metropolis.html