Austrian actress
Susi Lanner (August 27, 1911 – March 16, 2006) was an Austrian film actress who played major roles in German productions from 1932 to 1937.
Biography
Born Mechthilde Reif in Vienna , Austria , after schooling in drama, dance, and singing, Lanner appeared as a singer and dancer in operettas and revues in her native Vienna. She made her film debut in 1932 opposite Brigitte Helm and Oskar Karlweis in the comedy Three on a Honeymoon . Then she made a name for herself as a supporting actress, before she advanced to talented co-star at the side of Heinz Rühmann , Theo Lingen and Hans Moser . In her short film career she played lead roles opposite Harry Piel in Artisten , opposite Hans Söhnker in the drama Herbstmanöver (Autumn Maneuvers), and in Hans Deppe 's comedy Meiseken as well as opposite Erik Ode in the comedy The Daring Swimmer , opposite the silent-film star Pola Negri in Paul Wegener 's drama Moscow-Shanghai and opposite Heinz Rühmann in Robert A. Stemmle 's comedy Heinz in the Moon . She also played in musicals such as The Last Waltz with Camilla Horn .
Shortly before Germany annexed Austria in 1938, she moved with her husband Roy Frazier Potts, an American businessman (Vice President of the New-York Overseas Corp.), to the United States and did not transplant her film career.
She died in Dobbs Ferry, New York .
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