1. Mischa Auer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1936 for his performance in the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey, which led to further zany comedy roles.
15 Facts About Mischa Auer
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Mischa Auer later moved into television and acted in films again in France and Italy well into the 1960s.
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Mischa Auer was born in St Petersburg, Russia to a Jewish family.
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Mischa Auer's name is usually seen as Mischa Ounskowsky, Mischa being the German transliteration of Misha, and Ounskowsky being the French transliteration of his surname.
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Mischa Auer's father was an Imperial Russian Navy officer Semyon Ivanovich Unkovsky and his mother was Zoya Lvovna Unkovskaya, the eldest daughter of the Hungarian-born violinist Leopold Mischa Auer.
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Contrary to the popular belief, his father did not die when Mischa Auer was three years old.
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Semyon Unkovsky left Zoya Auer and married her sister, Maria Lvovna Auer.
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Leopold Mischa Auer emigrated to the United States after the Russian Revolution.
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Mischa Auer was able to contact his grandfather, who brought him to the United States in August 1920.
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Mischa Auer began performing on the stage in the 1920s in Bertha Kalich's Thalia Yiddish Theater, then moved to Hollywood, where he first appeared in 1928 in Something Always Happens.
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In 1936, Mischa Auer was cast as Alice Brady's protege in the comedy My Man Godfrey, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Mischa Auer played the ballet instructor Kolenkov in the Best Picture-winning You Can't Take It with You and the prince-turned-fashion designer in Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938.
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Mischa Auer was one of the large cast of And Then There Were None, and appeared in a pair of vehicles for opera singer Lily Pons.
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Mischa Auer appeared in Orson Welles's Mr Arkadin, and in the 1960s, he made several films in France and Italy, including The Christmas That Almost Wasn't.
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Mischa Auer died of cardiovascular disease in Rome in 1967 and was interred at Prospect Hill Cemetery in Gloversville, New York.