Elisabeth Bergner

Elisabeth Bergner was a German language film and stage actress who acted in Germany until moving to England to escape the Nazi threat to the Jews. Joseph L. Mankiewiczs classic film All About Eve was reportedly based on her own experience of employing a young female admirer who then tries to upstage her.

She was born Elisabeth Ettel in Drohobych, AustroHungarian Empire to Anna Rosa and Emil Ettel, a merchant. She grew up in a secular Jewish home. The Hebrew she heard in her childhood was associated with Yom Kippur and Pesach, and on her visits to Israel she apologized for not knowing the language.

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