Johanna Matz(1932-2025)
- Actress
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Actress Johanna Matz was born in Vienna 1932. She took ballet training
at the Vienna Academy. At the age of sixteen she had stage training
under Helene Thimig and
Alfred Neugebauer. After early
success in cinema she returned to the stage. She acted in Austrian,
German and American films, but only occasionally because she considered
herself primarily a theatre actress.
Otto Preminger called her to Hollywood to
play in
La Vierge sur le toit (1953),
the German version of
La lune était bleue (1953). In
1954 she also made
Esclaves pour Rio (1954) with
music by Michael Jary. The film was also
made in English language with the same stars. The American title was
"They Were so Young".
