Camilla Horn

Camilla Horn
Camilla Martha Horn (25 April 1903 – 14 August 1996) was a German dancer and a film star of the silent and sound era. She starred in several Hollywood films of the late 1920s and in a few British and Italian productions.
Biography
The daughter of a civil servant, Horn was educated as a dressmaker and worked at Erfurt. In 1925, together with Marlene Dietrich, she worked as an extra in the German film Madame Wants No Children, and later she was seen in a musical review by director Alexander Korda. She made her great breakthrough in 1926, when she replaced Lillian Gish as "Gretchen" in F. W. Murnau's UFA production of Faust.
In 1928 she sailed for Hollywood, where she played opposite John Barrymore in Tempest and Eternal Love. She returned to Europe, and in the 1930s refused to follow the official line of the Nazis and was prosecuted for a monetary offense. After the war the British tribunal at Delmenhorst convicted her for minor offenses (among them travelling without permission) and she was imprisoned for three months at the women's prison in Vechta.
From 1930 until her retirement in 1953, she remained a screen favorite in German, British, and Italian films, and late in life, she was invited to make her screen comeback, in the 1987's Schloss Konigswald. She spent her old age at Herrsching, and died at Gilching near Starnberg, where she had lived during the last year of her life.
Between April 1972 and February 1973 a song was written about her by the then-unsigned Bruce Springsteen. This still-unreleased song surfaced in the 1990s on a bootleg, "Early Years".
Awards
1987 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actress
Selected filmography
Kean (1921)
Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925) - (uncredited)
Tartuffe (1925)
Faust (1926) - Gretchen / Marguerite
Madame Wants No Children (1926) - Dancer
The Bordellos of Algiers (1927) - Adrienne Brisson
Eva and the Grasshopper (1927) - Camille de Saxe
The Merry Vineyard (1927) - Clärchen Gunderloch
The Tempest (1928) - Princess Tamara
Eternal Love (1929) - Ciglia
Three Around Edith (1929) - Lady Edith Trent
The Royal Box (1929) - Alice Doren
You'll Be in My Heart (1930) - Diane D'Artois
Fundvogel (1930) - Esther
Morals at Midnight (1930) - Nelly Wendt
The Great Longing (1930) - Eva von Loe
Hans in Every Street (1930) - Elisabeth, seine Braut
Sunday of Life (1931) - Ellen Hobart
The Song of the Nations (1931)
I Go Out and You Stay Here (1931) - Gaby, Mannequin
Reckless Youth (1931) - Lydia Thorne
The Night Without Pause (1931) - Letta Larbo
The Five Accursed Gentlemen (1932) - Camilla
The Cheeky Devil (1932) - Alice Ménard
The Return of Raffles (1932) - Elga
Moral und Liebe (1933) - Vera
Rund um eine Million (1933) - Lilly
The Rakoczi March (1933) - Vilma
The Love Nest (1933) - Fifi
Matinee Idol (1933) - Sonia Vance
If I Were King (1934) - Inge Winkler
The Double (1934) - Jenny Miller
The Big Chance (1934) - Helga, seine Tochter
The Luck of a Sailor (1934) - Louise
(1934) - Fürstin Stefanie
The Last Waltz (1934) - Vera, ihre Nichte
Ich sehne mich nach dir (1934) - Ivonne Brandt
The Red Rider (1935) - Hasia Nowrowska
White Slaves (1937) - Manja - seine Tochter
Sein letztes Modell (1937) - Maria Várady
Crooks in Tails (1937) - Vera Dalmatoff
Travelling People (1938) - Pepita
Red Orchids (1938) - Baronin Ogolenska
In geheimer Mission (1938) - Marion
Roman eines Arztes (1939) - Käthe Üding - seine Frau
Central Rio (1939) - Diane Mercier
Polterabend (1940) - Lissi
Herz ohne Heimat (1940) - Dina Horster
Die letzte Runde (1940) - Lilly
(1940) - Renée Lemonier
Friedemann Bach (1941) - Mariella Fiorini
Vertigine (1942) - Corinna Dellys, l'amante di Alberto
Paura d'amare (1942) - Barberina / Zia Barbara
Angelo del crepuscolo (1942) - Anna
Seine beste Rolle (1944) - Elise Sander
Intimitäten (1948) - Helene
Search for Majora (1949) - Gritt Faller
Queen of the Arena (1952) - Diana Bianca, Dompteuse
Father Is Being Stupid (1953) - Baronin von Baran
Appointment in Beirut (1969) - Mrs. Evelyn Brown
Wer weint denn schon im Freudenhaus? (1970) - Paula
Immer bei Vollmond (1970) - Wegelins Mutter
Der Unsichtbare (1987) - Olga Benjamin
Schloß Königswald (1988) - FürstinGroßmutter
References
External links
Photographs and literature
Brief biography
1903 births
1996 deaths
Actors from Frankfurt
Actors from Hesse-Nassau
German film actresses
German silent film actresses
20th-century German actresses