Lisa Golm
Lisa Golm (née Luise Schmertzler; 10 April 1891 – 6 January 1964) was a German actress who emigrated to America and appeared in a number of Hollywood films as a character actress.[1] [2] [3] Golm made her first screen appearance in the 1939 film Confessions of a Nazi Spy. She also featured on American television, appearing on shows such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Third Man and The Twilight Zone.
Biography
On 6 November 1918, she married Ernest Otto Ferdinand Golm in Berlin, Germany and later entered the United States at New York City on 3 December 1937.[4] She was naturalized as an American citizen on 24 September 1943, when a resident of Los Angeles.[5]
Death
Golm died on 6 January 1964, aged 72, in Tel Aviv, Israel from a neoplasm (or tumour).[clarification needed] She was buried in the Haifa Cemetery in Israel. She was survived by her sister, Jennie Schmerzler.[6]
Selected filmography
- Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
- Escape (1940)
- So Ends Our Night (1941)
- Journey for Margaret (1942)
- Woman of the Year (1942)
- Calling Dr. Death (1943)
- Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas (1943)
- Mission to Moscow (1943)
- Above Suspicion (1943)
- Madame Curie (1943)
- The Seventh Cross (1944)
- Shadow of a Woman (1946)
- Without Reservations (1946)
- High Wall (1947)
- Possessed (1947)
- Cry Wolf (1947)
- A Foreign Affair (1948)
- Homecoming (1948)
- Little Women (1949)
- Anna Lucasta (1949)
- The Great Sinner (1949)
- The Doctor and the Girl (1949)
- The Great Gatsby (1949)
- East Side, West Side (1949)
- The Happy Years (1950)
- The Hoodlum (1951)
- Payment on Demand (1951)
- A Place in the Sun (1951)
- The Blue Veil (1951)
- Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
- My Pal Gus (1952)
- Invitation (1952)
- The Merry Widow (1952)
- Bad for Each Other (1953)
- Ride the High Iron (1956)
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957) (Season 2 Episode 17: "My Brother, Richard") as Mrs. Kopeck
- Monkey on My Back (1957)
References
- ^ Keaney p.191
- ^ Capua p.157
- ^ Andreychuk p.61
- ^ "Lisa Golm in the California, U.S., Federal Naturalization Records". Federal Naturalization Records. 19 July 1938. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- ^ "Lisa Golm in the U.S., Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1992". Naturalization Record Indexes. 24 September 1943. Retrieved 17 November 2022 – via Ancestry.com.
- ^ "Lisa Golm in the U.S., Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad, 1835-1974". American Embassy. 27 January 1964. Retrieved 17 November 2022 – via Ancestry.com.
Bibliography
- Andreychuk, Ed. Burt Lancaster: A Filmography and Biography. McFarland, 2015.
- Capua, Michelangelo. Janet Leigh: A Biography. McFarland, 2013.
- Keaney, Michael F. Film Noir Guide: 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959. McFarland, 2003.
- McLaughlin, Robert. We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema during World War II. University Press of Kentucky, 2006.