death_date death_place years_active birth_place imagesize birth_date birthname article_title name occupation
26 february 1977 san diego , california , u.s. 1916 -- 1945 berlin , germany 150px 28 february 1903 gertrude berliner trude berliner
 trude berliner actress
trude berliner

trude berliner -lrb- 28 february 1903 -- 26 february 1977 -rrb- was a german actress .
she was one of many jewish actors and actresses that were forced to flee europe when the nazis came to power in 1933 .
berliner was born gertrude berliner in berlin , germany .
she became a famous cabaret performer in berlin .
in 1925 , she appeared in her first movie , a silent film called `` krieg im frieden '' .
berliner would wait four years before her second movie , but her film career would then take off .
in 1929 , she appeared in `` dich hab ich geliebt '' , which would become the first german talkie released in the united states .
berliner appeared in a number of well known movies in germany during the 1930s ; `` masken '' , `` ich heirate meinen mann '' , `` der hochtourist '' , `` die unsichtbare front '' , `` grossstadtnacht and kaiserwalzer '' .
`` es war einmal ein musikus '' was her last movie in germany .
released in 1933 , it also featured s.z. sakall .
this was the fourth german movie that berliner and sakall appeared together in .
being jewish , she left germany when hitler and the nazi party came to power in 1933 and went to france .
in 1939 , she immigrated to the united states .
however , in hollywood berliner was not able to continue her promising movie career , receiving only bit roles in four movies , and it would be three years before she received any part in any movie .
in 1942 , berliner received her first part in an american movie , `` casablanca '' .
she portrayed a woman playing baccarat with a dutch banker -lrb- played by torben meyer -rrb- .
in her one line in movie , she says to the waiter carl -lrb- played s.z. sakall -rrb- , `` will you ask rick if he will have a drink with us ? ''
, to which carl responds , `` madame , he never drinks with customers .
never .
i have never seen it . ''
later that year , she had another bit part in the world war ii romance `` reunion in france '' starring john wayne and joan crawford .
the following year , berliner played frau reitler in `` the strange death of adolf hitler '' .
her last movie was a small uncredited role as a german actress in the musical `` the dolly sisters '' in 1945 starring betty grable , june haver and c.z. sakall .
berliner lived quietly in california until she died on february 26 , 1977 in san diego just two days shy of her 74th birthday .
