
Camilla Horn
The daughter of a railroad official, Camilla Horn was educated in Germany and Switzerland. She initially trained as a dressmaker and received her first job experience in a fashion salon in Erfurt. This was merely a stepping stone for a performing career which began with dance lessons in Berlin and subsequent acting studies under Lucie Höflich. The lithe, blond and strikingly beautiful Camilla soon appeared in cabaret revues staged by Rudolf Nelson. By 1926, she was employed as an extra at Ufa, where she was spotted by the director F.W. Murnau, who found in her the ideal representation of Gretchen for his seminal production of Fausto (1926) . The role catapulted Camilla to instant stardom. Within a year, she was signed by United Artists in Hollywood, befriending Charles Chaplin and, more importantly, studio chairman Joseph M. Schenck. The friendship with Schenck may, or may not, have led to an affair -- depending on which story one is to believe -- but it did result in two high profile starring roles opposite John Barrymore in the torrid melodramas Tempestad (1928) and Amor eterno (1929), both produced by Schenck. Neither film was a commercial success.
With the coming of sound, Camilla returned to Europe, briefly appearing on stage in London and Paris, before resuming her screen career in Germany. As the 1930's went on, she rarely turned down a role, playing anything from baronesses and fashion models, to vamps and 'fallen women'. The quality of her films was variable, but there were several noteworthy standouts, such as Hans in allen Gassen (1930) (opposite Hans Albers), Fiesta en palacio (1934) and Payasos (1938) (as a circus artiste, again with Albers).
During this tumultuous decade, Camilla conducted a lengthy affair with the singer Louis Graveure, fifteen years her senior. This came to an end in 1938, when Graveure was suspected of espionage by the Gestapo and fled to England, via the Cote d'Azure. After her luxury villa in Berlin was ransacked in search for non-existent clues, Camilla's outspoken criticism of the Nazi regime reached a point where it got her into serious trouble. She saw out the first half of her career with a trio of long forgotten films made in Italy. Having failed in an attempt to flee to Switzerland, she kept a low profile and even tried her hand at farming. After the war, she had a stint as an interpreter for the occupying U.S. forces in Germany. Camilla made a successful return to the stage in a 1948 Frankfurt production of Jean Cocteau's "L'Aigle a Deux Tetes" (aka 'The Eagle Has Two Heads'). She spent the latter half of her acting career playing grand dames, matriarchs and worldly ladies with colourful backgrounds, in both films and on television. In 1974, she was awarded the 'Filmband in Gold' (also known as 'Lola') for lifetime achievement in the German film industry. In her 1985 autobiography, "Verliebt in die Liebe" ('In Love with Love'), she happily recounted her marriages and liaisons.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.031 |
Birthday | 1903-04-25 |
Place of Birth | Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
Also Known As | Камилла Хорн, Camilla Martha Horn, |

1926

Faust
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God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.
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1940

Polterabend
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Rudi, who’s been quite the ladies’ man, finally wants to settle down and marry Hilde. So as to not get into a touchy situation with all his many women...
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1928

Tempest
6.4/14
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1929

Eternal Love
5.5/10
In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.
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1934

A Waltz for You
5/1
Ruritanian power struggle with opera singing.
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1952

Königin der Arena
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1934

Der Doppelgänger
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1938

Fahrendes Volk
4/3
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1941

Friedemann Bach
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Schloß Königswald
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1938

Rote Orchideen
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1968

Appointment in Beirut
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1934

If I Were King
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1932

The Cheeky Devil
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1940

Die keusche Geliebte
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1937

White Slaves
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1940

Die letzte Runde
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1992

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1970

Immer bei Vollmond
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1970

He's at It Again
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A comedy directed by Rudolf Lubowski.
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1942

Broken Love
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1930

Mein Herz gehört Dir...
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1931

Frivolous youth
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1944

Seine beste Rolle
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1930

Hans in Every Street
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1930

The Great Passion
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1940

Herz ohne Heimat
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1937

Sein letztes Modell
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1939

Roman eines Arztes
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1935

The Red Rider
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1949

Gesucht wird Majora
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1939

Zentrale Rio
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1953

Vati macht Dummheiten
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1948

Intimitäten
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1937

Crooks in Tails
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1933

Racoczy-Marsch
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1987

Der Unsichtbare
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1930

Fundvogel
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1989

Spiders
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1933

The Love Nest
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1926

Tartuffe
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1927

The Bordellos of Algiers
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1929

Three Around Edith
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1933

Matinee Idol
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1982

Frankies Braut
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1934

The Luck of a Sailor
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1938

In geheimer Mission
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Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau
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1934

Ich sehne mich nach dir
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1932

The Return of Raffles
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1927

Eva and the Grasshopper
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Mary and Eva are best friends, although they couldn't be more different. Armand, Mary's fiancee, falls in love with the seductive Eva, who is busy bec...
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1958

Die Erbin
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1934

Die große Chance
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1933

Moral und Liebe
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1929

Die Königsloge
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1927

Der fröhliche Weinberg
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1926

Madame Wants No Children
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1931

Sunday of Life
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1925

Ways to Strength and Beauty
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The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training...
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1933

Money Governs the World
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In this French set comedy, five million francs change hands one weekend between a man pretending to be a millionaire and a woman pretending to be a Ru...
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1931

I Go Out and You Stay Here
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Weimar era screwball comedy about a floor model who is required to go out evenings to escort VIPs while her boyfriend has to wait at home.
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1934

Der letzte Walzer
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Film by Jacoby.
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1931

The Song of the Nations
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1931

The Night Without Pause
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When Julius Seipold's wife Regine becomes suspicious that he is having an affair after discovering incriminating evidence, Julius manages to convince...
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1932

The Five Accursed Gentlemen
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European tourists on holiday in Morocco are threatened by a native sorcerer who predicts five of them will die, one by one, before the full moon.
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1930

Morals at Midnight
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Berlin, the center of pleasures and kingdom of small virtues. From all over Germany, young night owls come to burn themselves cheerfully in its lights...
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