Friederike "Friedl" Haerlin (29 December 1901 – 17 April 1981) was a German stage and film actress. During the 1930s she worked in cinema playing glamorous roles, mainly in comedy films. In the late 1930s, in order to boost her flagging career, she attempted to gain invitations to receptions given by

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. Her final film was the Austrian comedy ''

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'' which was made in 1945, but was not released until 1949. Finding that offers of work were drying up, she later immigrated to

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, although she returned to spend her final years in her Bavarian hometown of

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. Whenever she had time, Friedl Haerlin was a passionate racing driver. She set a women's record at the Semmering race in 1929.

Selected filmography

* '' The Shot in the Pavilion'' (1925) * '' The Stolen Face'' (1930) * '' Queen of the Night'' (1931) * ''

The Man Who Murdered ''The Man Who Murdered'' () is a 1931 German crime drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Conrad Veidt, Trude von Molo and Heinrich George. It is adapted from the 1906 novel ''L'homme qui assassina'' by Claude Farrère. The film's ...

'' (1931) * ''

Laughing Heirs ''Laughing Heirs'' () is a 1933 German comedy film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Heinz Rühmann, Max Adalbert, Lien Deyers and Friedrich Ettel.Kreimeier p. 218 It was shot at the Babelsberg and Tempelhof Studios in Berlin and on loca ...

'' (1933) * '' A Precocious Girl'' (1934) * ''

Hilde and the Volkswagen ''Hilde and the Volkswagen'' () is a 1936 German comedy film directed by Heinz Paul and starring Ludwig Manfred Lommel, Grethe Weiser and Hilde Schneider. It was shot at the Terra Studios in Berlin.Klaus p.97 Cast * Ludwig Manfred Lommel as B ...

'' (1936) * ''

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'' (1936) * '' Linen from Ireland'' (1939) * '' Kora Terry'' (1940) * '' Roses in Tyrol'' (1940) * '' The Three Codonas'' (1940) * '' Clarissa'' (1941) * ''

'' (1949)

References

Bibliography

* d' Almeida, Fabrice. ''High Society in the Third Reich''. Polity, 2008.

External links

* 1901 births 1981 deaths German film actresses German silent film actresses 20th-century German actresses People from Starnberg (district) Actresses from Bavaria {{Germany-stage-actor-stub