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Actress, Brigitte Helm, was born Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm on Mar 17, 1906 in Berlin, Germany. Helm died at the age of 90 on Jun 11, 1996 in Ascona, Switzerland .

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By Dan Day Jr. on Feb 2, 2013 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

This time of the year is usually referred to as "awards season", when all the beautiful people get together at various functions and congratulate each other on how talented they are. I think it's ironic that people get so worked up about award shows, because some of the greatest film performances of... Read full article


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By Dan Day Jr. on Feb 2, 2013 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

This time of the year is usually referred to as "awards season", when all the beautiful people get together at various functions and congratulate each other on how talented they are. I think it's ironic that people get so worked up about award shows, because some of the greatest film performances of... Read full article


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Supposedly director James Whale's first choice for his Bride of Frankenstein (1935). She refused to come to America.

By the time she died in 1996, she had been long forgotten, unlike her jazz-age rival Marlene Dietrich.

Due to the coming of sound films and her disgust with Adolf Hitler's takeover of the German film industry, she retired to Switzerland in 1935 and never made another film. She lived out the rest of her life in quiet solitude repeatedly refusing to talk about her film career anywhere at any time.

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