- Her roles in simple, sentimental movies such as La fiancée de la Forêt-Noire (1950) and Grün ist die Heide (1951) made her one of the first stars of Germany's post war cinema.
- Good friends with Hildegard Knef, Pamela Wedekind and Charles Regnier. Three years after Wedekind's death, she married her husband Charles Regnier.
- Delicately lovely, dark-haired and innocent-looking German star of post-WWII romance films and musicals.
- Following the suicide of her second husband in 1969, she became the constant companion of Martinius Adolff. He perished in an airplane crash in 1974.
- Began to train in ballet at age 10 and later studied under Tatjana Gsovsky in Berlin.
- Lives in a house for assisted living in Munich because she did not want to live alone in her big house at the Tegernsee. (2009)
- Her father was a tax consultant.
- Lives at the Tegernsee (lake) in Bavaria and Davos, Switzerland.
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