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CAMILLA HORN portrait | c. 1928 #978250

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CAMILLA HORN portrait | c. 1928 #978250
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Portrait of the German actress Camilla Horn, c. late 1920s
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Vintage gelatin silver print

4.5 x 6.25 inches trimmed
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CAMILLA HORN [1903-1996]

Daughter of a civil servant. She was educated as a dressmaker and worked at Erfurt. She also took dance lessons and in the early twenties she joined Rudolf Nelson's Kabarett at the Kurfurstendamm in Berlin as a stage dancer.
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In 1925 she was a double for the legs of Lil Dagover in F.W. Murnau's "Tartuff". Murnau's eye fell on her and in 1926 he gave her the part of Gretchen in his UFA production "Faust". "Faust" made her famous at once. She was signed by United Artists and big boss Joseph M. Schenck himself took care of her career and even wanted to marry her. In later years Camilla claimed that they were friends but not lovers. She was able to make several successful Hollywood movies, mostly playing vamps. In "Tempest" (1928) and in "Eternal Love" (1929) she starred with John Barrymore. But she got homesick and claimed that her English was too bad for movies with spoken words. This was not true, but she din't want to offend the Americans. She was to appear in 70 more movies in Germany, England and France.
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<tr><td>Condition:Very good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1928</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:6.25</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:4.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:CAMILLA HORN portrait | c. 1928</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York</td></tr>
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