Ilka Grüning
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Ilka Grüning as Mrs. Leuchtag in Casablanca
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Ilka Henriette Grunzweig September 4, 1876 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | November 11, 1964 (aged 88) Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | Actor |
Ilka Grüning (September 4, 1876 – November 11, 1964) was born in Vienna in the old Austrian-Hungarian Empire. She was one of many Jewish actors and actresses that were forced to flee Europe when the Nazis came to power in 1933.
Grüning's first film, at age 43, was a German silent movie called Todesurteil in 1919. Next, she starred with Conrad Veidt in Peer Gynt. Later that year, she and Veidt appeared in Die sich verkaufen.
She continued making silent movies in Germany into the 1920s. In 1920, she appeared in the film Die Bestie im Menschen based on a Émile Zola novel. This were two of 11 films she appeared in that year alone. Grüning appeared in a couple of Veidt's "Christian Wahnschaffe" movies; Weltbrand in 1920 and Die Flucht aus dem goldenen Kerker in 1921. In 1922, she had a small part as a landlady in Lady Hamilton starring Veidt as Lord Horatio Nelson. This was one of four movies that she and Hans Twardowski appeared in together; F.W. Murnau's drama Phantom, Es leuchtet meine Liebe and Der Falsche Dimitri.
In 1923, she portrayed Frau Gött in Max Mack's Das Schöne Mädel. Later that year, she portrayed the wife of Johann Friedrich Schiller in Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend. Next she played Rosalindes' mother in Max Mack's Die Fledermaus (this was the 5th film she did with the German director). In 1924, she appeared in F.W. Murnau's drama Die Finanzen des Großherzogs; (this was the third film she made with Murnau, the legendary German director).
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