Lída Baarová

Lída Baarová (September 14, 1914 - October 28, 2000) was a Czech actress. This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... September 14 is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years). ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... October 28 is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 64 days remaining. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

Born Ludmila Babková in Prague, former Czechoslovakia, she attended the actors conservatory in Prague and received her first starring role in Czech movie productions at the age of 17. She was privately engaged to actor Gustav Fröhlich and starred in several films with him. Prague (Praha in Czech) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ...

In 1935, following the success of her first appearance in the German film Barcarole as the innocent sexual pawn of squalid male intrigue, Baarová moved to the island of Schwanenwerder on the outskirts of Berlin with Fröhlich. She then proceeded to star in several Nazi German propaganda films. She met Joseph Goebbels while working for Ufa films, with whom she started a passionate affair which lasted for over a year and caused her breakup with Fröhlich. This affair displeased Goebbels' wife, Magda, who complained to Adolf Hitler. The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels (October 29, 1897 – May 1, 1945) was Adolf Hitlers Propaganda Minister (see Propagandaministerium) in Nazi Germany. ... Universum Film AG, better known as Ufa or UFA, was the principle film studio in German, home of the German film industry during the Weimar Republic and through World War II, and a major force in world cinema during its brief existence from 1917 through 1945. ... Magda Goebbels Johanna Maria Magdalena Goebbels (November 11, 1901 - May 1, 1945) was the wife of Joseph Goebbels and First Lady of the Third Reich. ... Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889–April 30, 1945) was the Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Imperial chancellor) of Germany from 1933 to his death. ...

Hitler was sympathetic towards Magda and gave a stern warning to Goebbels. Consequently, Goebbels reluctantly broke off all contact with Baarová, who was told to return to Czechoslovakia. Her flight to Prague in 1938 did not long afford security, for in March 1939 the city was invaded by Hitler's troops. Expelled in 1941, she went to Italy, where she made several films before the Gestapo returned her to Prague in 1945. After the end of World War II, she was arrested by American troops, tried as a Gestapo spy, and served 16 months in prison on account of her Nazi past. The Gestapo was the official secret police force of Nazi Germany. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air. ...

In 1949, Anton Walbrook loudly withdrew from a film when required to appear in a scene with her due to her past affiliation with the Nazi Party. This humiliation caused her to withdraw to Argentina but she was soon back and appearing in Italian films, including Fellini's I Vitelloni (1953). In 1958 she moved to Salzburg, where she found stage work. In 1970, Rainer Werner Fassbinder gave her a part in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. Anton Walbrook as Theo Kretschmar_Schuldorff, in the duel scene from The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. ... Fassbinder 1977 Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 - June 10, 1982), German movie director and actor, was one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema. ... Categories: 1972 films | LGBT-related films | Stub ...

Long assumed dead, she was suddenly rediscovered in the 1990s, and in 1995 made a documentary of her life, Lida Baarová's Bittersweet Memories. She rigorously suppressed the guilt of her past - "There's no doubt that Goebbels was an interesting character," she observed in 1997, "a charming and intelligent man and a very good storyteller. You could guarantee that he would keep a party going with his little asides and jokes."

Her involvement with the Nazi elite meant that she had turned down offers to go to Hollywood. "I could have been as famous as Marlene Dietrich," she believed. Lida Baarová married first, in 1949 (dissolved 1956) Jan Kopecky, and secondly, in 1970, Kurt Lundwall, a gynaecologist 20 years her senior. Marie Magdalene Marlene Dietrich (December 27, 1901 – May 6, 1992) was a German actress and singer. ...

Baarová suffered from Parkinson's disease for many years and died in 2000 in Salzburg, Austria. This page is for the city of Salzburg. ...

Her sister, Zorka Janů, is also a Czech actress.