Austrian actress, born in Drogobytsch (Drogobych), Galicia (now Russia). Moving to Berlin via Vienna and Munich, she married the director Paul Czinner in 1933 and with him moved to London. She specialized in expressive roles, which she played to great effect on stage and in films such as Fräulein Else (1929), Ariane (1931), Der träumende Mund (1932), and Wie es euch gefällt (1936).
Elisabeth Bergner was born Elisabeth Ettel on August 22, 1897, in Drohobycz, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Drogobych, Ukraine).
She began acting in Innsbruck at the age of 15.
In 1923 she made her film debut in Der Evangelimann.
She temporarily returned to Germany in 1954, where she acted in movies and on the stage;
All About Eve
Bergner is considered by several critics to be the inspiration for the character of Margo Channing in Joseph L.
Bergner had a true life incident about a real-life would-be Eve Harrington that she recounted to writer Mary Orr (1910 - 2006). Orr published a piece about the matter for Cosmopolitan and named it The Wisdom of Eve, in which Eve does not get a comeuppance (as was required by the Hollywood Production Code for the film), but gets away with everything and is last seen heading to Hollywood with a "thousand dollar a week contract in her pocketbook." Ein Script von ihm war schon ein Film - "A script by Carl Mayer was already a film".
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