Jane Tilden, born as Marianne Wilhelmine Tuch, (1910–2002) was an Austrian actress who enjoyed a long career on stage and in films and television shows. She was born as Marianne Tuch in Aussig, then part of the

Austro-Hungarian Empire Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. A military and diplomatic alliance, it consist ...

. She was the sister of the

cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the recording of a film, television production, music video or other live-action piece. The cinematographer is the chief of the camera ...

Walter Tuch. After making her debut on the stage in the early 1930s she appeared regularly in German and Austrian films during the

Nazi era Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictat ...

including the 1938 comedy '' The Blue Fox'' (1938).Waldman p.200 After the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

she worked regularly in film and television, increasingly in

supporting role A supporting character is a character in a narrative that is not the focus of the primary storyline, but is important to the plot/protagonist, and appears or is mentioned in the story enough to be more than just a minor character or a cameo a ...

s. She was married three times, her husbands included the actor Erik Frey and composer Alexander Steinbrecher.

Selected filmography

* '' The Emperor's Candlesticks'' (1936) * '' Hannerl and Her Lovers'' (1936) * '' Flowers from Nice'' (1936) * '' The Blue Fox'' (1938) * '' Mirror of Life'' (1938) * '' Happiness is the Main Thing'' (1941) * ''

Two Happy People ''Two Happy People'' () is a 1943 comedy film directed by E. W. Emo and starring Magda Schneider, Wolf Albach-Retty, and Oskar Sima. The film was made by Wien-Film, a Vienna-based company set up after Austria had been incorporated into Greater Ge ...

'' (1943) * '' Cordula'' (1950) * '' Anna Louise and Anton'' (1953) * '' Emperor's Ball'' (1956) * '' The True Jacob'' (1960) * '' The Good Soldier Schweik'' (1960) * '' What Is Father Doing in Italy?'' (1961) * '' Romance in Venice'' (1962) * '' Johnny Colt'' (1966) * '' The Mad Aunts Strike Out'' (1971) * '' The Count of Luxemburg'' (1972) * ' (1976) * '' Tales from the Vienna Woods'' (1979) * ' (1981) * ' (1983, TV film)

References

Bibliography

* Waldman, Harry. ''Nazi Films In America, 1933-1942''. McFarland & Co, 2008.

External links

* 1910 births 2002 deaths Austrian stage actresses Austrian film actresses 20th-century Austrian actresses People from Ústí nad Labem Austrian people of German Bohemian descent {{Austria-film-actor-stub