Hildegard Knef
…named Kurt Hirsch, encouraged her to try again for success in the U.S. She changed her name from Knef to Neff, but was offered only a supporting role in The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), an adaptation of an Ernest Hemingway short story. Her reputation in the U.S. was hurt because of her nude scenes in the German film Die Sünderin…