Lilian Harvey

Lilian Harvey was an Englishborn GermanBritish actress and singer, long based in Germany, where she is best known for her role as Christel Weinzinger in Erik Charells 1931 film Der Kongre tanzt.

Helene Lilian Muriel Pape was born in 1906, in Hornsey, North London. Her mother, Ethel Marion , was English, and her father, Walter Bruno Pape, was a German businessman. At the beginning of World War I the family found itself in Magdeburg, and as they were unwilling and unable to return to England, Harvey was sent to live with an aunt at Solothurn in Switzerland. After the war, the Papes lived in Berlin, where Lilian took her highschool diploma in 1923. She began her career by attending the dance and voice school of the Berlin State Opera and assumed her grandmothers maiden name as her professional surname.

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