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| Toni Sylva
1884 - 1956 |
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. The actress Toni Sylva was born as Elisabeth Antoinette Sieben in Mönchengladbach. She began her artistic career in 1903 at the theater in Berlin, where she appeared regularly on various stages in the coming years. The film director Walter Schmidthässler brought her to the film business in 1913 and entrusted her with the leading role in his movie "Das Weib ohne Herz" (12). In the next years Toni Sylva continued her film career and she impersonated roles in the productions "Die dunkle Stunde" (13), "Das silberne Kreuz" (13), "Die Wasser schweigen" (13), "Nelly" (14), "Einer für Alle" (14) and "Abgründe" (15), often directed by Schmidthässler. A car accident in 1915 ended her film career. She married the businessman Carl Rörig in 1919. After his death, she fell into poverty in 1938. In the mid-1950s, she lived in the Aquinata nursing home, where she died. Other movies with Toni Sylva: Gräfin Spinarosa tanzt (13) Weisse Lilien (13) Das Recht auf Glück (13) Draussen vor der Tür (13) Der Schatten ihres Glücks (13) Das weisse Pferd (14) Der Traum einer Christnacht (14) |
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