Was an aspiring Jewish stage actress in Germany and had to flee in 1934
with her first husband, the cutter (film editor) Victor Palfi, after the
Nazis came to power. She played only bit parts in Hollywood, many of
them uncredited. Her most memorable roles were in Casablanca (1942), where she
was "the woman who has to sell her diamonds" in order to escape the
Nazis and in Der Marathon-Mann (1976), where she was "the woman on 47th street," chasing
a Nazi who is trying to escape with robbed diamonds.
In 1943, she married the German-American actor Wolfgang Zilzer (stage name:
Paul Andor), who had been the "man with expired papers" in Casablanca (1942). The
couple divorced in old age when the American-born Zilzer wanted to die
in Germany and his wife refused to return to her native
country.
