Nora Gregor

Nora Gregor is an actress and singer of Austrian origin, born Eleonora Hermina Gregor the February 3rd 1901 in Görz (Austria-Hungary become Gorizia in Italy) and died (suicide) the January 20th 1949, with Santiago of Chile.

Biography

Of Jewish origin, Norma Gregor begins in 1918 in operettas with Graz and Raimundtheater from Vienna, then with the theater with Berlin with the director max Reinhardt with the Reinhardt Bühne and the Volksbühne It becomes one of the queens of the Austrian scene. In parallel, it starts a cinematographic career by playing in a silent film Gefesselt of Peter Paul Felner (1920). Many others will follow, with in particular the role of the Zamikoff princess in Mikaël of the Danish realizer Carl Theodor Dreyer.

She turns its first role speaking in 1930, in the film Olympia of Jacques Feyder with Theo Shall. It is the period when it joined Hollywood, and it turns in particular But the flesh is weak of (1932) of Jack Conway with Robert Montgomery. In California, it continues to play theater in several parts where it often divides the poster with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. It is also distributed in many German versions of great American productions like Mordprozeß Mary Dugan (1930 with the cinema) of Arthur Robison and Wir schalten um auf Hollywood (1931) of Frank Reicher with Buster Keaton.

Its career in the theater of German language also continues with the Burgtheater of Vienna where it connects the triumphs in two parts of William Shakespeare: Othello where she plays Desdemone, and Romeo and Juliette where she is Juliette.

In 1937, after having divorced the pianist Mitja Nikish, it marries the prince Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg vice-chancellor of Austria. The Anschluss, the annexation of Austria by the Nazi Germany, constrained the couple with the exile in France, which will make it possible Nora to play Christine of Cheyniest in the Rules of the game of Jean Renoir (1939). With the declaration of war between the France and the Germany, Nora and his/her husband flee with the Chile where in 1945, it turns in the fruta mordida , film carried out by Jacques Rémy also exiled. It will be its last film, In waiting to be able to join its fatherland, it decides to go to live with her son Heinrich (who will be producer and actor), with Viña del Mar. The actress commits suicide with Santiago of Chile in 1949.

Catalog of films

1945 : the fruta mordida of Jacques Rémy (the mother)
1939: the Rules of the game of Jean Renoir (Christine of Cheyniest)
1933: Abenteuer amndt Lido of Richard Oswald (Evelyn Norman)
1933: Was Frauen träumen of Géza von Bolváry (Rina Korff)
1932: Goal the Flesh is Weak of Frank Reicher (Mrs. Rosine Brown)
1931: Wir schalten um auf Hollywood of Joe May
1931: Mordprozeß Mary Dugan of Arthur Robison (Mary Dugan)

1930: Olympia of Jacques Feyder (Olympia)

1927: Eheskandal im Raises Fromont jun. und Risler SEN. of A.W. Sandberg (Claire)

1926: DER Geiger von Florenz of Paul Czinner

1925: Das Mädchen put der Protektion max Mack (Orina Norowna)

1925: Der Mann, DER sich verkauft of Hans Steinhoff (Daisy Bracca)

1924: Mikaël of Carl Theodor Dreyer (Princess Lucia Zamikoff)

1924: Modern Laster of Leopold Niernberger
1923: Irrlichter der Tiefe of Fritz Freisler

1923: Die kleine Sünde of Julius Herzka

1922: Die trennende Brücke of Julius Herska
1922: Die tochter of the Sergeants of Friedrich Porges

1922: Die Come from Hans Homma

1921: Das grinsende Gesicht of Julius Herska (Herzogin Josiane)

1921: Die Schauspielerin of Kaisers of Hans Otto

1920: Wie Satan starb of Heinz Hanus and Otto Rippert

1920: Gefesselt of Peter Paul Felner