Elfie Mayerhofer
Elfie Mayerhofer | |
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Born | 15 March 1917 Maribor, Austro-Hungarian Empire |
Died | 28 December 1992 (aged 75) Maria Enzersdorf, Austria |
Occupation | Actress singer |
Years active | 1938–1968 (film) |
Elfie Mayerhofer (1917–1992) was an Austrian film actress and singer. A noted stage performer, she played lead roles in a series of musical and operetta films such as The Song of the Nightingale (1944)[1] and The Heavenly Waltz (1949).[2] She was known as the "Viennese Nightingale".
Selected filmography[]
- Women for Golden Hill (1938)
- The Curtain Falls (1939)
- Hotel Sacher (1939)
- My Wife Theresa (1942)
- A Man With Principles? (1943)
- Music in Salzburg (1944)
- (1944)
- (1947)
- Anni (1948)
- The Court Concert (1948)
- The Heavenly Waltz (1948)
- Beloved Liar (1950)
- Kissing Is No Sin (1950)
- (1952)
- (1960)
References[]
External links[]
Bibliography[]
- Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
Categories:
- 1917 births
- 1992 deaths
- Austrian film actresses
- Austrian female singers
- Actors from Maribor
- 20th-century Austrian actresses
- 20th-century Austrian singers
- 20th-century women singers
- Musicians from Maribor
- Austrian actor stubs