Celia Lovsky

Celia Lovsky was the Austrian actress who played T'Pau in the second season episode . Lovsky filmed her scenes between Wednesday and Monday at Desilu Stage 10.
==Life and career==
Lovsky was born Cäcilia Josefina Lvovsky in Vienna on February 21, 1897; her father was a minor Czech classical composer. She studied at the Royal Academy and went on to appear in stage plays in Austria and Germany until meeting Hungarian actor , whom she later married. She was instrumental in getting him cast as the child murderer in 's classic 1931 thriller M. Although the couple divorced in 1945, they remained devoted friends all their lives. Lorre had refused to permit her to work in America, believing that in a marriage, the man must do all the work. After their divorce, she sought out theater and film roles, but was hampered by a heavy Austro-Hungarian accent. She did get a number of character and exotic roles.
She played the mother of , who herself was a deaf-mute, in , where she used . (Hollywood Speaks: Deafness and the Film Entertainment Industry, John S. Schuchman, Illini Books, 1999) Late-night viewers probably remember her in this role or as Apache Princess Saba in an obscure 1955 film, Foxfire. Both films were directed by Joseph Pevney, who recommended Lovsky for the role of T'Pau in "Amok Time" after reading Theodore Sturgeon's script. He and Leonard Nimoy agreed that Lovsky would be "perfect". (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 53) Proving unable to perform the Vulcan salute naturally for "Amok Time", she manipulated the fingers of her left hand into the correct position before raising it into range of the camera (the salute is usually performed with the right hand).
She had many guest-starring television roles on such favorites as Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Lovsky and Susan Oliver appeared together in the Michael Shayne episode "The Heiress" and in The Gene Krupa Story (1959). She also appeared in (1973), which featured Whit Bissell, Leigh Taylor-Young, Robert Ito, Roy Jenson, Meg Wyllie, and Brock Peters, and was photographed by Richard H. Kline.
Lovsky died of natural causes in Los Angeles, California, in 1979, aged 82.
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