1. 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.
13 Facts About Lilian Harvey
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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 without 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 France.
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Lilian Harvey spent most of the time in Los Angeles working as a volunteer nurse, but went on tour performing in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit.
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On May 19th 1947, Lilian Harvey flew to Paris to star in the hit revue Paris Qui S'Amuse by Jean Valmy and Jules Borkon; she took the opportunity to recover her requisitioned French villa.
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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 died in her own hotel in Juan-les-Pins of liver failure on 27 July 1968, aged 62.
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Lilian Harvey was buried at the Robiac Cemetery in Antibes.