- Date de naissance
- Date de décès23 juin 1981 · Stockholm, Stockholms län, Suède (causes naturelles)
- Nom de naissanceSara Stina Hedberg
- Surnoms
- The Nazi Garbo
- Replacement Dietrich
- The Empress of UFA
- Zarah Leander est née le 15 mars 1907 à Karlstad, Comté de Värmland, Suède. Elle était actrice et compositrice. Elle est connue pour Marie Stuart (1940), Le chemin de la liberté (1941) et Première (1937). Elle était mariée à Arne Hülphers, Vidar Forsell et Nils Leander. Elle est morte le 23 juin 1981 à Stockholm, Comté de Stockholm, Suède.
- ConjointsArne Hülphers(1956 - 24 juillet 1978) (son décès)Vidar Forsell(1932 - 1943) (divorcé)Nils Leander(1 septembre 1927 - 1932) (divorcé, 2 enfants)
- 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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