Jane Asher

Now well known as the author of recipe books, Jane Asher runs a company making novelty cakes for special occasions, and still acts on television and in the theatre. Seglitz, Germany named a city park after her. They have three children. She returned to Germany in 1954, where she acted in movies and on the stage. In 1971 she met the illustrator Gerald Scarfe, and they married ten years later in 1981. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Escape Me Never in 1935. Thereafter, she was more commonly seen on television; The Stone Tape (1972); Brideshead Revisited (1981); Crossroads (2001). Her Catherine the Great was banned in Germany because of her Jewishness.

Asher appeared in Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death in 1964, and Alfie, opposite Michael Caine in 1966. With the rise of Naziism, Bergner and her husband, Paul Skinner, both Jews, moved to London. Her brother Peter was part of the duo Peter & Gordon, for whom McCartney penned the number one hit A World Without Love. In 1923 she made her film debut in Der Evangelimann. She inspired many of McCartney's best songs, such as Here, There and Everywhere and For No One. She eventually moved to Munich and then Berlin. In 1963, Asher interviewed The Beatles, and then commenced a five year relationship with Paul McCartney. In Vienna, she worked as an artist's model, posing for sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck, who fell in love with her.

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