She was born Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm in Berlin. Her second, and by far the most memorable role, was as Maria in the silent film Metropolis. After Metropolis, Helm made over 30 films, including talking pictures, before retiring in 1936. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Her other appearances include The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927), Gloria (1931), The Blue Danube (1932) and Gold (1934).
In 1935, angered by Nazi control of the German film industry, she moved to Switzerland where she later had 4 children with her second husband Dr. Hugo Kunheim, an industrialist. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Nazism. ...
BrigitteHelm, the German actress who defined the unobtainable, cool eye screen vamp as the haunting teen-age star of Fritz Lang's futuristic 1926 masterpiece, "Metropolis," died on Tuesday in Ascona, Switzerland, where she had lived in seclusion for more than 30 years.By her own account, she was 88.
Helm was regarded as such a perfect embodiment of the era's ideal of cool sophistication that when she turned Josef von Sternberg down for the starring role in "Blue Angel," he had to settle for Marlene Dietrich.
Helm who was 16 when she was tricked into taking a screen test, was suddenly on her way to stardom.
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