Emil Jannings
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Emil Jannings was a Swiss-born German actor who was popular in Hollywood films in the 1920s. He was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actor for starring in The Last Command and The Way
Jannings c. 1926
Jannings as Kreon in Hasenclever's Antigone, Großes Schauspielhaus, 1920
Jannings with Joseph Goebbels on Wolfgangsee, 1938
Emil Jannings' grave at St Wolfgang im Salzkammergut
Gussy Holl
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Auguste Marie Christine Holl was a German actress and singer. Holl was briefly a silent film star during the early Weimar Republic, appearing in productions such as F. W. Murnau's Desire. As of 2021,
Emil Jannings
…marriages ended in divorce, his last with his death. His last three marriages were to German stage and film actresses, Hanna Ralph, Lucie Höflich, and Gussy Holl. He had a daughter, Ruth-Maria (born 1920), from his first marriage to Lucy Höflich. Hilmar Eichhorn portrayed a fictionalized version of Jannings in…
Holl in Desire, 1921
Portrait of Gussy Holl by Paul Rieth, c. 1918