Lil Dagover

A prominent German film actress born on 30 September 1887 at Madiven, Java, the daughter of a forest ranger in the service of the Dutch authorities. Sent at the age of ten to Baden-Baden to study, she later entered the cinema thanks to her marriage in 1917 to the actor Fritz Dagover who was 25 years her senior. They divorced in 1919 but not before he had introduced her to director Robert Wiene and other notables of German cinema. She made her screen debut in Fritz Lang's Harakiri (1919). Immediately after she appeared in Wiene's classic expressionist film, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (aka The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)). Apart from three trips -- one to Sweden in 1927, another to France in 1928-9 and one to Hollywood in 1931 -- most of Lil Dagover's career and fate was linked to that of the German cinema, where her role was usually that of the frail, menaced heroine. She continued to star in a great number of films during the Nazi era. Among her best performances were her roles in Congress Dances (1931), in Gerhard Lamprecht's The Higher Command (1935) and in Veit Harlan's The Kreutzer Sonata (1937). She also acted in the Deutsches Theatre Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, at forces shows and at war theaters. At one time, she was reported to have been a close friend of Adolf Hitler. In 1944, she received the War Merits Cross. Dagover continued her career in post-war Germany, playing many supporting parts until the late 1970s.

Lil Dagover, nascuda Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert (Madiun, Indonèsia, 30 de setembre de 1887 - Munich, Alemanya, 23 de gener de 1980), va ser una actriu alemanya la carrera cinematogràfica de la qual va abastar entre 1913 i 1979. Va ser una de les actrius de cinema més populars i reconegudes de la República de Weimar.

Née à Java et envoyée en Allemagne à 10 ans, Lil Dagover découvre le cinéma grâce à Robert Wiene et mène une carrière de soixante ans, de Caligari à Karl May, travaillant avec Wiene, Lang, Murnau, Liebeneiner, puis plus tard avec Maximilian Schell et Hans‑Jürgen Syberberg; elle tourne encore Légendes de la forêt viennoise quelques semaines avant sa mort.

Lil Dagover (Nascida Maria Antônia Siegelinde Martha Seubert; 30 de setembro de 1887 – 23 de janeiro de 1980) foi uma atriz alemã cuja carreira cinematográfica se estendeu entre 1913 e 1979. Ela foi uma das atrizes de cinema mais populares e reconhecidas da República de Weimar. No início da década de 1920, Dagover era uma das atrizes de cinema mais populares e reconhecidas da República de Weimar, aparecendo em filmes de diretores proeminentes como F. W. Murnau, Lothar Mendes e Carl Froelich. A carreira cinematográfica de Lil Dagover no cinema alemão até a década de 1920 foi prolífica, fazendo mais de quarenta filmes.