Camilla Horn
Camilla Martha Horn was a German dancer and a film star of the silent and sound era. She starred in several Hollywood films of the late 1920s and in a few British and Italian productions.
Biography
The daughter of a civil servant, Horn was educated as a dressmaker and worked at Erfurt. In 1925, together with Marlene Dietrich, she worked as an extra in the German film Madame Wants No Children, and later she was seen in a musical review by director Alexander Korda. She made her great breakthrough in 1926, when she replaced Lillian Gish as "Gretchen" in F. W. Murnau's UFA production of Faust.In 1928 she sailed for Hollywood, where she played opposite John Barrymore in Tempest and Eternal Love. She returned to Europe, and in the 1930s refused to follow the official line of the Nazis and was prosecuted for a monetary offense. After the war the British tribunal at Delmenhorst convicted her for minor offenses and she was imprisoned for three months at the women's prison in Vechta.
From 1930 until her retirement in 1953, she remained a screen favorite in German, British, and Italian films, and late in life, she was invited to make her screen comeback, in the 1987's Schloss Konigswald. She spent her old age at Herrsching, and died at Gilching near Starnberg, where she had lived during the last year of her life.
Between April 1972 and February 1973 a song was written about her by the then-unsigned Bruce Springsteen. This still-unreleased song surfaced in the 1990s on a bootleg, "Early Years".
Awards
Selected filmography
Kean Ways to Strength and Beauty - Tartuffe Faust - Gretchen / MargueriteMadame Wants No Children - DancerThe Bordellos of Algiers - Adrienne BrissonEva and the Grasshopper - Camille de SaxeThe Merry Vineyard - Clärchen GunderlochThe Tempest - Princess TamaraEternal Love - CigliaThree Around Edith - Lady Edith TrentThe Royal Box - Alice DorenYou'll Be in My Heart - Diane D'ArtoisFundvogel - EstherMorals at Midnight - Nelly WendtThe Great Longing - Eva von LoeHans in Every Street - Elisabeth, seine BrautSunday of Life - Ellen HobartThe Song of the Nations I Go Out and You Stay Here - Gaby, MannequinReckless Youth - Lydia ThorneThe Night Without Pause - Letta LarboThe Five Accursed Gentlemen - CamillaThe Cheeky Devil - Alice MénardThe Return of Raffles - ElgaMoral und Liebe - VeraRund um eine Million - LillyThe Rakoczi March - VilmaThe Love Nest - FifiMatinee Idol - Sonia VanceIf I Were King - Inge WinklerThe Double - Jenny MillerThe Big Chance - Helga, seine TochterThe Luck of a Sailor - Louise' - Fürstin StefanieThe Last Waltz - Vera, ihre NichteIch sehne mich nach dir - Ivonne BrandtThe Red Rider - Hasia NowrowskaWhite Slaves - Manja - seine TochterSein letztes Modell - Maria VáradyCrooks in Tails - Vera DalmatoffTravelling People - PepitaRed Orchids - Baronin OgolenskaIn geheimer Mission - MarionRoman eines Arztes - Käthe Üding - seine FrauCentral Rio - Diane MercierPolterabend - LissiHerz ohne Heimat - Dina HorsterDie letzte Runde - Lilly- '