Daisy D'Ora

[spadeneal]

Have run into mention that Daisy D'Ora -- who played Fritz Kortner's spouse in Pandora's Box -- has lately died at about the age of 97. But I can't find confirmation of it, and the person who wrote this doesn't seem aware that Eva von Berne is shown in most sources as having died in 1930.

spadeneal

> On Jun 16, 7:10 am, jlp <jaypay> wrote:

> > Daisy Schlitter aka D’Ora, Miss Germany of 1931, and former film
> > actress of the late 20s and early talkies has died on Saturday
> > evening. The Potsdam-born Countess was 97 and lives in a retirement
> > home in Munich. Her best known credit was in G. W. Pabst Drama “Die
> > Büchse der Pandora” (The Box of Pandora), 1929 opposite Louise Brooks,
> > Fritz Kortner and Franz Lederer.

> > With the death of Daisy D’Ora is only one actress still alive from
> > german silent movie era; Eva von Berne, who turns 100 in three weeks
> > and living now in Hungary.

Posted at voy celebrity obit board.www.voy/221392/

[moviepas]

It seems that IMDB, who has a lengthy article about Eva van Berne, does list this lady as having died in 1930 from excessive dieting. They also list her being born in Sarajevo which is listed as being in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1910. Eva is a name that is common in Hungary but who is this person that is going to 100 soon living there?? Is this like the Anastasia story???

[spadeneal]

I agree; everything about this obit is totally confusing and makes no sense.

spadeneal

[PhilipS]

I don't know how reliable The secret life of Humphrey Bogart: the early years (1899-1931) By Darwin Porter is but it says that one newspaper reported that von Berne had been killed in a car crash in Europe. Other sites say "excessive dieting" but they all could be from the one source. I can't find any other reference to the Hungarian von Berne.

D'Ora does appear to be no more. Here's a German obit:

http://www.mittelbayerische.de/region/k ... _ist_.html

[spadeneal]

Thanks so much. That at least confirms one part of it.

spadeneal

[silentfilm]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... bered.html

Jun 12, aged 97. German silent screen star, fashion plate and favourite of European society photographers (her mother was an Estonian countess). Disconcerted her family when she announced, aged 18, that she wanted to be a "movie star". With limited training and questionable talent, she attracted the attention of the director GW Pabst, who cast her in Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box, 1928). Took a leading role in Das verschwundene Testamant (The Missing Testament, 1929), but her hopes of screen stardom were short-lived, and after retiring in 1930 she married a German diplomat, Oskar Schlitter. Her outspoken comments and uninhibited ways often got her husband into trouble. At the German embassy in Madrid she greeted the ex-Kaiser's grandson, Prince Louis Ferdinand, with a lusty "Hi there, Lulu!" Interviewed in 2009, she remembered Adolf Hitler, whom she met many times, as "the most terrible pianist".

[PhilipS]

Born in 1913, decides to become an movie star at 18 and her career is over by 1930? [scratches head]

[boblipton]

Some teen star just retired at 24, says that she doesn't have the passion anymore and thanks dad.

Bob

[thomas_gladysz]

Born in 1913, decides to become an movie star at 18 and her career is over by 1930? [scratches head]

If my math holds up, D'Ora was only 15 when Pandora's Box was made. It premiered in Berlin in Feb, 1929.

[thomas_gladysz]

I wrote a piece for examiner.com about Daisy D'Ora.

It can be found at http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-4857 ... -at-age-97#

She was an interesting personality, with an interesting life. Though no "dumb dora" - she was prone to faux pas which made headlines around the world in the 1950's.

This German newspaper obit has a contemporary image of Daisy next to a painted portrait of her from her youth.

http://www.mittelbayerische.de/region/k ... _ist_.html