Maria Orska was an important actress of the German theater and cinema in the 1920s.
10 Facts About Maria Orska
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Maria Orska was born as Rachel Blindermann in 1893, of a Jewish family, in a city of Mykolaiv, not far from Odesa, in what is Ukraine, at the time a part of Russian Empire.
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Just before World War I Maria Orska moved to Wien, Hamburg and Berlin in 1915.
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Maria Orska spoke fluently German, French, Italian, Russian and Polish.
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In Berlin, Maria Orska worked with Rudolf Bernauer in the Hebbel Theater, Max Reinhardt and was famous for her parts in theater plays by Strindberg, Wedekind and Pirandello.
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Maria Orska gained national popularity in Germany for her film parts, although theater was always more important to her.
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Maria Orska was sometimes credited in films and film publicity materials as Maria Daisy Orska.
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Maria Orska died in Quito in 1966 at the age of 71.
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Maria Orska enjoyed enormous popularity in Central Europe in the 1920s.
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Maria Orska's photographs appeared on covers of magazines, postcards with her portraits were distributed all over that part of the continent.