Heather Angel

Photograph of Heather Angel (http://www.britishpictures.com/godfrey/card37.htm). Seglitz, Germany named a city park after her. Heather Angel has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 6312 Hollywood Boulevard. She returned to Germany in 1954, where she acted in movies and on the stage. She died from cancer in Santa Barbara, California. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Escape Me Never in 1935. She also played a continuing role in the television soap opera Peyton Place from 1964 until 1965. Her Catherine the Great was banned in Germany because of her Jewishness.

Her film appearances in the following years were few, but she returned to Hollywood to provide voices for the Walt Disney animated films Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). With the rise of Naziism, Bergner and her husband, Paul Skinner, both Jews, moved to London. She was among the actresses considered and tested for the role of Melanie Wilkes in Gone With The Wind (1939), but despite being unsuccessful in securing this role, she was cast in such prestigious films as Pride and Prejudice (1940), Kitty Foyle (1940), That Hamilton Woman (1941), and two Alfred Hitchcock films, Suspicion (1941) and Lifeboat (1944). In 1923 she made her film debut in Der Evangelimann. In 1937 she made her first appearance in the popular Bulldog Drummond series, in a role she would eventually play in five films. She eventually moved to Munich and then Berlin. Over the next few years she played strong roles in such films asThe Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935), The Three Musketeers (1935), The Informer (1935), The Last of the Mohicans (1936) and The Bold Caballero. In Vienna, she worked as an artist's model, posing for sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck, who fell in love with her.

Born in Oxford, England, Angel made her first film appearance with a leading role in Night in Montmartre (1931), and followed this success with The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932). Born Elisabeth Ettel in Drohobycz, Austria-Hungary (now Drogobych, Ukraine), she began acting in Innsbruck at the age of 15. Heather Grace Angel (February 9, 1909 - December 13, 1986) was a British film actress. Elisabeth Bergner (August 22, 1897 - May 12, 1986) was an Austrian actress.