Charlotte Susa

Charlotte Susa
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Born	(1898-03-01)1 March 1898 Memel, East Prussia, Imperial Germany
Died	Basel, Switzerland
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1926–1941

Charlotte Susa (1 March 1898 – 28 July 1976) was a German actress.

Biography

Susa was born Charlotta Wegmüller near Memel, East Prussia and first appeared at a stage in 1915 at Tilsit. She chose her mothers maiden name "Susa" as her stage name and began a successful career as a singer and actress at different German Opera and Operetta stages, e.g. at Brandenburg, Essen, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Cologne and later on at the Admiralspalast in Berlin.

Susa gave her debut as a film actress in the German Silent movie Der Prinz und die Tänzerin in 1926 and became popular for her roles as a Femme fatale. In 1932 she signed a contract with MGM and moved to the United States to start an international career.

Elizabeth Yeaman wrote in her newspaper column on 15 August 1932:

Lilian Harvey, Henry Garat, Anna Sten, and now Charlotte Susa, comprise a quartet of important foreign talent that soon will be seen in Hollywood pictures. (...) Miss Susa has arrived in New York and soon will reach these shores with an MGM contract. She was born in Lithuania of German parents and has won great fame in Germany. She first went on the stage as a singer, then as a dramatic actress, and three years ago she took up screen work. Who knows, she may be the actress who will take Garbo's place, provided Garbo never returns.

However, Susa did not succeed in Hollywood, returned to Germany soon and canceled the MGM contract in 1934. Her last role in a movie was a minor one in the 1941 comedy Der Gasmann next to Heinz Rühmann and Anny Ondra. After that she returned to theater stages.

Susa was married to Paul Cablin, Fritz Malkowsky and after 1939 to Andrews Engelmann. Susa died at Basel in Switzerland in the age of 78.

Filmography

The Prince and the Dancer (1926) Herbstmanöver (1926) Love's Joys and Woes (1926) That Was Heidelberg on Summer Nights (1927) Der Sieg der Jugend (1927) Arme kleine Colombine (1927) Frühere Verhältnisse (1927) Zwei unterm Himmelszelt (1927) Almenrausch und Edelweiß (1927) The Duty to Remain Silent (1928) Du sollst nicht stehlen (1928) Sünde und Moral (1929) Erotikon (Czechoslovakia, Gustav Machatý) (1929) Father and Son (1929) Der Tiger (1930) Zapfenstreich am Rhein (1930) The Great Longing (1930) The Copper (1930)

Zwei Menschen (1930) Das gelbe Haus des King-Fu (1931) Walzerparadies (1931) Express 13 (1931) Ausflug ins Leben (1931) Die Pranke (1931) Ehe m. b. H. (1931) Unter falscher Flagge (1932) Abenteuer im Südexpress (1934) Das Erbe in Pretoria (1934) Sie und die Drei (1934) Alles um eine Frau (1935) Königstiger (1935) Henker, Frauen und Soldaten (1935) Das große Abenteuer (1937) Wasser für Canitoga (1939) A Woman Like You (1939) The Gasman (1941)

External links

• Charlotte Susa at the Internet Movie Database
• Charlotte Susa at Virtual History
• Charlotte Susa at Cyranos