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Actress, Henny Porten, was born Frieda Ulricke Porten on Jan 7, 1890 in Magdeburg, Germany. Porten died at the age of 70 on Oct 15, 1960 in Berlin, Germany .

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By Dawn Sample on Jul 7, 2013 From Noir and Chick Flicks

(7 January 1890 – 15 October 1960) was a German actress and film producer of the silent era. She performed in over 170 films between 1906 and 1955. Many of her earlier films were directed by her husband Kurt Stark, who died on the Western Front in 1916. In 1921, she remarried, to... Read full article


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Boycotted by the Nazis because she refused to divorce Wilhelm von Kaufmann, who was Jewish.

Although it is inaccurate to say she is actually a character in Peter Handke's "anti-play," "The Ride Across Lake Constance," her name is used as a designation of a character, as are the names of other celebrated actors of the German cinema, Elisabeth Bergner, Heinrich George, Erich von Stroheim, Emil Jannings and the twins Alice Kessler and Ellen Kessler.

Sister of Rosa Porten.

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