Dagny Servaes (10 March 1894 – 10 July 1961) was a

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and

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. In the theatre she appeared in the productions of

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Styan p.89 and Berthold Brecht. Servaes appeared in around sixty films during her career, initially in

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and later in

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s. One of her earliest screen performances was in the 1917 propaganda film '' Dr. Hart's Diary''. She also voiced the character of the evil queen in a German language dub of Disney's

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made for the Austrian market in 1938.

Personal life

Servaes was born in

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in the

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(present day

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) to parents Martha (née Haese) and Franz Theodor Hubert Servaes. She had with Erwin Goldarbeiter, a daughter, Evi Servaes, who also became an actress in movies and on stage. She had a brother, Roderich Servaes, whose son Arnim became a stage actor as well. Through her father, she was cousins with

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Reginald Servaes. She is also distant cousins to English actor

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Selected filmography

* '' Dr. Hart's Diary'' (1917) * '' The Loves of Pharaoh'' (1922) * ''

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'' (1922) * ''

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'' (1923) * ''

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'' (1923) * '' Carlos and Elisabeth'' (1924) * '' Modern Marriages'' (1924) * ''

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'' (1924) * ''Remembrance'' (1924) * ''

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'' (1925) * '' Fadette'' (1926) * '' The Student of Prague'' (1926) * '' Grand Hotel'' (1927) * ''

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'' (1927) * ''Golgotha'' (1933) * ''

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'' (1936) * '' Florentine'' (1937) * '' The Unexcused Hour'' (1937) * '' Nanon'' (1938) * '' A Prussian Love Story'' (1938) * ''

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'' (1938) * '' The Deruga Case'' (1938) * '' Immortal Waltz'' (1939) * ''Sensationsprozess Casilla'' (1939) * ''

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'' (1940) * '' The Golden City'' (1942) * '' Laugh Bajazzo'' (1943) * '' Laugh, Pagliacci'' (1943) * '' The Immortal Face'' (1947) * '' The Queen of the Landstrasse'' (1948) * '' Eroica'' (1949) * '' Night of the Twelve'' (1949) * '' The Fourth Commandment'' (1950) * ''

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'' (1951) * '' Wedding in the Hay'' (1951) * ''Have The World For Me'' (1953) * '' Daughter of the Regiment'' (1953)

Theatre

* ''

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'' (December 1927) –

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* '' Jedermann'' (December 1927 – January 1928) – Lechery * ''Danton's Tod'' (January 1928) – Julie * ''Peripherie'' – Anna

References

Bibliography

* Prawer, S. S. ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933''. Berghahn Books, 2005. * Styan, J. L. ''Max Reinhardt'' . CUP Archive, 1982.

External links

* * 1894 births 1961 deaths German film actresses German silent film actresses German stage actresses Austrian film actresses Austrian stage actresses Actresses from Berlin 20th-century German actresses 20th-century Austrian actresses {{Germany-film-actor-1890s-stub