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Betty Amann

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1905 - 1990

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The actress Betty Amann began her film career with small roles at different theaters in the USA before she started her film career in the US silent movie era - at this time under her stage name Bee Amann. To her first movies belong "The Kick-Off" (26), "The Beach Club" (28) and "The Best Man" (28).
One year later followed her first German silent movies like "Der Sträfling aus Stambul" (29) and "Asphalt" (29) directed by Joe May.

She was able to continue her career in the sound film era and took part in German as well as English spoken productions.
To these movies belong "Der weisse Teufel" (30), "Hans in allen Gassen" (30), "The Perfect Lady" (31), "Strictly Business" (31), "Rich and Strange" (31) by Alfred Hitchcock, "Schleppzug M 17" (33) and after her return to the USA "In Old Mexico" (38).
Her last cinematical work followed in 1943 with "Isle of Forgotten Sins" (43).

Betty Amann got the Filmband in Gold in 1987 for her activity for the German film.
 

Other movies with Betty Amann:
A Simple Sap (28) The Campus Vamp (28) Motorboat Mamas (28) La tentation (29) Trail of the Horse Thieves (29) O alte Burschenherrlichkeit (30) Niebezpieczny romans (30) Die grosse Sehnsucht (30) Das Lied der Nationen (31) Pyjamas Preferred (32) Daughters of Today (33) Der grosse Bluff (33) Die kleine Schwindlerin (33) Strictly in Confidence (33) Nancy Drew…Reporter (39)

 
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