Lilian Harvey's mother, Ethel Marion, was English, and her father, Walter Bruno Pape, was a German businessman.
13 Facts About Lilian Harvey
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At the beginning of the First World War the family found itself in Magdeburg, and as they were unwilling and unable to return to England, Lilian Harvey was sent to live with an aunt at Solothurn in Switzerland.
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Lilian Harvey began her career by attending the dance and voice school of the Berlin State Opera and assumed her grandmother's maiden name as her professional surname.
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Lilian Harvey appeared in the musical film The Three from the Filling Station of the same year, which became a major success and gave the young actor Heinz Ruhmann his break.
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Lilian Harvey was invited to Hollywood and made four movies for the Fox Film Corporation, but these were not as successful as her German films.
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Lilian Harvey eventually abandoned George White's Scandals, leading executives to cast Alice Faye in the part, and Faye became an overnight sensation.
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In June 1937 Lilian Harvey had helped the choreographer Jens Keith, prosecuted under the homosexual acts Paragraph 175, by posting a bail for him.
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In spring 1939, Lilian Harvey left Germany and her real-estate fortune, which was confiscated; she was to be deprived of her German citizenship in 1943 because she had performed for French troops.
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Lilian Harvey went to live at her residence in Juan-les-Pins in Vichy France.
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Lilian Harvey retired to the resort town of Antibes on the French Riviera, where she operated a souvenir shop and raised edible snails.
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Lilian Harvey received compensation in the form of a pension from the federal government for the assets confiscated during the Nazi era.
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On 7 February 1953 Lilian Harvey married the Danish concert manager Hartvig Valeur-Larsen in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Lilian Harvey was buried at the Robiac Cemetery in Antibes.