13 Facts About Lien Deyers

Lien Deyers was a Dutch actress based in Germany.

Lien Deyers was born Nicolina Spanier in Amsterdam on 5 November 1909, the daughter of Nathan Spanier, a piano teacher, and Johanna Adriana Nicolina Liefjes, a seamstress.

Lien Deyers then traveled between The Hague, Vienna, and Lausanne, where she went to a private school and became fluent in French.

Lien Deyers was billed as Lien Deyers because Dijjers frequently was misspelled or mispronounced in German-speaking countries.

The contract soon turned out to be mere slavery, and Lien Deyers sought a court decision to end it.

Lien Deyers was featured in nine silent movies and 25 talkies over the following eight years, mostly comedies, some of them French productions.

Lien Deyers had met him when he directed the movie Sein Scheidungsgrund, in which she played the main character.

Lien Deyers got into conflict with the new politics of Nazi Germany: She had to take on German citizenship to remain assured of roles.

Lien Deyers mainly was typecast for typical "Aryan" characters like the exemplary girlish blonde in The Company's in Love and Gold.

Lien Deyers traveled between London and The Hague, and in 1937, she signed for a major role in the Dutch-Italian movie The Three Wishes.

Lien Deyers, who had a reputation of being "extremely mentally unstable", could not find work in Hollywood.

Lien Deyers developed an alcohol addiction and relied financially on old contacts like the German actor and director William Dieterle and in particular the Austrian-American film agent Paul Kohner and his European Film Fund that he had founded to aid German actors in exile.

Lien Deyers was arrested in Las Vegas in 1964 for loitering and disorderly conduct, and she sent a greeting card congratulating German actor and former co-star Heinz Ruhmann on his 80th birthday in 1982.