Trivia

With the talkies she ended her film career.

The actress Helga Molander was already a successful actress on German stages when she entered the silent movie business at the end of the 10's.

Helga Molander is the mother of psychologist Hans Eysenck.

With the advent of the Nazi times in Germany, Helga Molander left for France, then to Brazil and then to the United States.

She began her artistic career in 1918 at the Trianon Theater in Berlin.

She played major roles in the productions of the Berlin film producer and director Max Glass in films such as Der Mann mit der Eisernen Maske (Man with the Iron Mask) and Bob und Mary.

In 1957, she married screenwriter, film director, and producer Max Glass.

A few months before the outbreak of World War II, she emigrated from Le Havre to the USA, where she arrived in New York on 23 May 1939. In France she had also met Max Glass again, who also left for America in May 1939. Molander and Glass spent the war years in Brazil and the USA, returning to Europe only at the end of 1945.

In 1928, just before the introduction of sound film, Helga Molander's film career stopped. The reason for this is unclear.

Molander played major roles for Berlin film producer and director Max Glass. Glass was the head of Terra Film, for which Molander often worked. According to German journalist Georg Fuchs, Terra Film owed its rise to international recognition to Glass. He was sometimes nicknamed 'the dictator of cinema' because of his iron will.

She played with Conrad Veidt in the groundbreaking drama Anders als die Anderen/Different from the Others (1919, Richard Oswald), based on a script by Oswald and physician and sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld. The movie was banned after a short run in Germany where theater goers were harassed at showings. It seems very brave of Conrad Veidt and the makers of the film to make a sympathetic, sexually charged film about homosexuals in 1919.

Helga Molander began her artistic career in 1918 at the Trianon Theater in Berlin. She was a success, and also made her film debut that year.

Glass went to Paris and according to some sources, Max Glass 'spent a fortune' buying his longtime friend Molander's freedom after - like most refugees from Germany - she had been rounded up by the French police and locked up in a French internment camp. From then on Glass and Molander were a couple.

At 20, she fell in love with a nightclub entertainer - Eduard Anton Eysenck - who was once voted 'handsomest man on the Baltic coast'.

In 1957, Helga Molander and Max Glass finally married, after Glass had divorced his first wife Helene Münz.

Her father was an opera singer and her mother a doctor.

With the advent of the Nazi times in Germany, Helga Molander and Max Glass got in trouble and both had to flee. Not only were they both Jews, but several of the actors that appeared in Glass' films were too, like for example Szöke Szakall and Grete Mosheim.