Loni Nest

Loni Nest (born Eleonore Nest; August 4, 1915 - October 2, 1990) was a German actress.

Early life
She was born in Berlin to American parents. At the early age of four weeks, she was first featured in a movie. She used the name Loni Nest instead of Eleonore Nest. Between 1918 and 1933, she starred in 41 movies, opposite such actors as Charles Boyer, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Fritz Feld.

Disppearance
After more than 40 movies, she ended her movie career in 1928 at the early age of 13. In 1933 she played in one last movie in France.

Her whereabouts after 1933 remained unknown for several decades.

Death
She died at the age of 75 on October 2, 1990 in the French town Nice.

Hoax
In 2014, the website "Forever missed" published an obituary that ostensibly revealed that Nest had died on Hawaii in 2014 at the old age of 98. It also described details of Nest's life after she left Germany and moved to America. Various websites including the Internet Movie Database quickly adopted this information. However it was soon discovered, that both the time and location of her death as well as the details about her later life were completely made up.

According to the German newspaper Die Welt, German film historian Toni Schieck had discovered years before that Nest's sister Ursula had moved to the US and died in Florida in 2007. Through her family, Schieck discovered that Nest had married and taken the last name Arnault. She moved to France where she died at the age of 75 in Nice.

Filmography

1918: Dida Ibsens Geschichte
1919: Die Ehe der Frau Mary
1919: Opium
1919: Harakiri
1920: Kämpfende Gewalten oder Welt ohne Krieg
1920: Der Reigen – Ein Werdegang
1920: Patience
1920: Johannes Goth
1920: Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam
1920: Die Schuld der Lavinia Morland
1920: Das wandernde Bild
 Man Overboard (1921)
1921: Ein Erpressertrick
1921: Schloß Vogelöd
 Violet (1921)
1921: Die Minderjährige – Zu jung fürs Leben
1921: Pariserinnen
1921: Der Sträfling von Cayenne
1921: The Pearl of the Orient
1921: Sturmflut des Lebens
1922: Versunkene Welten
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1922: Tabea, stehe auf!
1922: Sterbende Völker (2 parts)
1922: Aus den Erinnerungen eines Frauenarztes (2 parts)
1923: Quarantäne
1923: Tragödie der Liebe
1923: Fräulein Raffke
 The Little Napoleon (1923)
1923: Schwarze Erde
1924: Zwei Kinder
1924: Mutter und Kind
1924: Der Evangelimann
1925: Liebesfeuer
1925: Die Prinzessin und der Geiger
1925: Die freudlose Gasse
1925: Aus der Jugendzeit klingt ein Lied
 The Saint and Her Fool (1928)
1928: Die Geschichte einer kleinen Pariserin (La storia di una piccola Parigina)
1933: L'Épervier

References

Other websites


Category:1915 births
Category:1990 deaths
Category:German movie actors
Category:People from Berlin