Adrienne Gessner
| Adrienne Gessner | |
|---|---|
| Born |
23 July 1896 Schottwien, Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Died |
23 June 1987 Vienna, Austria |
| Other names | Adrienne Geiringer |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1931–1980 (film) |
Adrienne Gessner (July 23, 1896 – June 23, 1987) was an Austrian actress. Gessner appeared in over fifty film and television shows during her career, including the 1955 costume film Royal Hunt in Ischl.[1] Gessner appeared in a mixture of German and Austrian films during her career. Following the Anchluss of 1938 she fled with her Jewish husband Ernst Lothar to the United States, returning after the Second World War.[2]
Selected filmography
- Catherine the Last (1936)
- After the Storm (1948)
- No Time for Flowers (1952)
- Voices of Spring (1952)
- Stolen Identity (1953)
- Royal Hunt in Ischl (1955)
- Crown Prince Rudolph's Last Love (1955)
- I Often Think of Piroschka (1955)
- The Trapp Family in America (1958)
- A Breath of Scandal (1960)
- The Spendthrift (1964)
- Tales from the Vienna Woods (1979)
References
Bibliography
- Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men In Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity . Berghahn Books, 2013.
- Vansant, Jacqueline. Reclaiming Heimat: Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by Jewish Austrian Reémigrés. Wayne State University Press, 2001.
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