Wera Engels
Acting
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Acting Credits
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....
Known For
Filmography
Talking About Jacqueline
1937
as Jacqueline Topelius
Stjenka Rasin
1936
as Prinzessin Dolgoruki
Together We Live
1935
as Sonia
Hong Kong Nights
1935
as Trina Vidor
Sweepstake Annie
1935
as Baroness Yvonne Baritska
The Great Impersonation
1935
as Princess Stephanie Elderstrom
Fugitive Road
1934
as Sonya Valinoff
The Great Jasper
1933
as Norma McGowd
The Ringer
1932
as Cora Ann Milton
English as it is spoken
1931
Scent of the Woman in Black
1931
as Edith Rance
Lucky children
1931
The Copper
1930
as Mabel
The Girl from Spree Woods
1928
Befehl zur Ehe
1928
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
1927
as Irene Wendtland
Lützow's Wild Hunt
1927
Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein?
1927
as Ellen Shiffer