Dagny Servaes
Dagny Servaes (10 March 1894 – 10 July 1961) was a German-Austrian stage and film actress. In the theatre she appeared in the productions of Max Reinhardt and Berthold Brecht. Servaes appeared in around sixty films during her career, initially in lead and later in supporting roles.
Dagny Servaes
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- Name
- Dagny Servaes
- Born
- 10 March 1894
- Birthplace
- Berlin, German Empire
- Died
- 10 July 1961
- Place of death
- Vienna, Austria
- Occupation
- Film and stage actress
- Nationality
- Germany · Austria
- Languages
- German
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Biography
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One of her earliest screen performances was in the 1917 propaganda film Dr. She also voiced the character of the evil queen in a German language dub of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs made for the Austrian market in 1938.
The Loves of Pharaoh (German: Das Weib des Pharao, aka The Wife of the Pharaoh) is a 1922 German historical epic film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. This is a newspaper advert from The Morning Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK), for the American release.
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Portrait of actress Dagny Servaes, German postcard by Photochemie, no. K. 3155.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Dagny Servaes • Born — 10 March 1894 • Birthplace — Berlin, German Empire • Died — 10 July 1961 • Place of death — Vienna, Austria • Resting Place — Grinzing Cemetery, Vienna • Occupation — Film and stage actress • Years Active — 1916–1958 • Relatives — Reginald Servaes (cousin)
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Dagny Servaes (10 March 1894 – 10 July 1961) was an actress. The birth of Dagny Servaes is recorded on 10 March 1894 in Berlin, and the death on 10 July 1961 in Vienna.
Personal life
Personal life
• Illustration — Grave of Dagny Servaes at the Grinzing Cemetery in Vienna Servaes was born in Berlin in the German Empire (present day Germany) to parents Martha (née Haese) and Franz Theodor Hubert Servaes. She had with Erwin Goldarbeiter, a daughter, Evi Servaes, who also became an actress in movies and on stage. She had a brother, Roderich Servaes, whose son Arnim became a stage actor as well. Through her father, she was cousins with Vice Admiral Reginald Servaes. She is also distant cousins to English actor Tom Hiddleston.
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• Dr. Hart's Diary (1917) • The Loves of Pharaoh (1922) • Peter the Great (1922) • Adam and Eve (1923) • The Tales of Hoffmann (1923) • Carlos and Elisabeth (1924) • Modern Marriages (1924) • In the Name of the King (1924) • Remembrance (1924) • Colonel Redl (1925) • Fadette (1926) • The Student of Prague (1926) • Grand Hotel (1927) • The Weavers (1927) • Golgotha (1933) • The Fairy Doll (1936) • Florentine (1937) • The Unexcused Hour (1937) • Nanon (1938) • A Prussian Love Story (1938) • Mirror of Life (1938) • The Deruga Case (1938) • Immortal Waltz (1939) • The Sensational Casilla Trial (1939) • Friedrich Schiller (1940) • The Golden City (1942) • Laugh Bajazzo (1943) • Laugh, Pagliacci (1943) • The Immortal Face (1947) • The Queen of the Landstrasse (1948) • Eroica (1949) • Night of the Twelve (1949) • The Fourth Commandment (1950) • Maria Theresa (1951) • Wedding in the Hay (1951) • Have The World For Me (1953) • Daughter of the Regiment (1953)
Theatre
Theatre
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (December 1927) – Hippolyta • Jedermann (December 1927 – January 1928) – Lechery • Danton's Tod (January 1928) – Julie • Peripherie – Anna
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1961
Dagny Servaes died at Vienna.
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- 1.Styan p.89
- 2.Genealogie Online. De stomboom van Franz Joseph J. Servaes >> Stamboom Servaes Neuss/Dusseldorf.
- 3.British Film Institute. Dagny Servaes BFI.
- 4.The Deseret News. These are the forty-one new Paramount Pictures you should ask your theatre manager to book. 29 July 1922.
- 5.Albrecht Knaus Verlag Gmbh. Leni Riefenstahl: A Memoir. St. Martin's Press. 61. 1987. 0-312-11926-7.
- 6.Prawer, Siegbert Salomon. Between two worlds : the Jewish presence in German and Austrian films, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books. 63. 2005. 1-84545-074-4.
- 7.SilentFilm.org. The Weavers, 1927 Silent Film Festival.
- 8.Youngkin, Stephen D. The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre. The University Press of Kentucky. 463. 2005. 0-8131-2360-7.
- 9.Garden, Ian. The Third Reich's celluloid war : propaganda in Nazi feature films, documentaries and television. History Press. 2012. 978-0-7524-6442-8.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Prawer, S. S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.
- Styan, J. L. Max Reinhardt . CUP Archive, 1982.
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1894: Dagny Servaes born in Berlin. 1961: Dagny Servaes died in Vienna.
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