- Geboren am
- Verstorben23. Juni 1981 · Stockholm, Stockholms län, Schweden (natürliche Gründe)
- GeburtsnameSara Stina Hedberg
- Spitznamen
- The Nazi Garbo
- Replacement Dietrich
- The Empress of UFA
- Zarah Leander wurde am 15 März 1907 in Schweden geboren. Sie war Schauspielerin und Komponistin, bekannt für Das Herz der Königin (1940), Der Weg ins Freie (1941) und Premiere (1937). Sie war mit Arne Hülphers, Vidar Forsell und Nils Leander verheiratet. Sie starb am 23 Juni 1981 in Schweden.
- EhepartnerArne Hülphers(1956 - 24. Juli 1978) (er verstorben)Vidar Forsell(1932 - 1943) (geschieden)Nils Leander(1. September 1927 - 1932) (geschieden, 2 Kinder)
- Was known for portraying glamorously elegant martyrs in most of the films she made in Nazi Germany, such as: Queen Mary of Scots, a famous opera singer disowned by her father, a music hall star covering up for her lover's crimes, etc.
- At a party she met the Nazi minister of Propaganda, Josef Goebbels, who asked her ironically: "Zarah... Isn't this a Jewish name?" "Oh, maybe" the actress told "but what about Josef?" "Hmmm... yes, yes, a good answer" Goebbels replied.
- After the war she never seemed to understand why people couldn't accept that she was a non-political figure who only wanted to make happy musicals and happened to do so in Nazi Germany.
- Sometimes called "the Nazi Garbo" and, like Garbo, she was a Swede whose greatest film successes came while working in a foreign language (German)
- In 1939, using the proceeds of her record earnings, she bought a big mansion, Lönö, at the Swedish East coast close to Norrköping.
- According to a 2004 book by Anthony Beevor, ("The Mystery of Olga Chekhova"), she worked for Soviet intelligence during World War II, passing information about Nazi Germany to a Soviet contact during her visits home to Sweden.
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