Elfie Mayerhofer
| Elfie Mayerhofer | |
|---|---|
| Born |
15 March 1917 Marburg an der Drau, Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Died |
28 December 1992 (aged 75) Maria Enzersdorf, Austria |
| Occupation |
Actress Singer |
| Years active | 1938–1968 (film) |
Elfie Mayerhofer (1917–1992) was an Austrian film actress and singer. A noted stage performer, she played lead roles in a series of musical and operetta films such as The Song of the Nightingale (1944)[1] and The Heavenly Waltz (1949).[2] She was known as the "Viennese Nightingale".
Selected filmography
- Women for Golden Hill (1938)
- The Curtain Falls (1939)
- Hotel Sacher (1939)
- My Wife Theresa (1942)
- A Man With Principles? (1943)
- Music in Salzburg (1944)
- The Song of the Nightingale (1944)
- Viennese Melodies (1947)
- Anni (1948)
- The Heavenly Waltz (1949)
- Vanished Melody (1952)
- Madame Pompadour (1960)
References
External links
Bibliography
- Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men In Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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