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German actress
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Female
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Birth:
1 November 1901(Dortmund, Arnsberg Government Region, Province of Westphalia, Germany)
Death:
26 October 1967(Munich, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany)
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Biography
Introduction
Fita Benkhoff (1 November 1901 – 26 October 1967) was a German actress.
Life
Benkhoff was born in 1901. In the 1920s the actress Louise Dumont separated from her husband. Dumont was attached to a number of young actresses including Benkhoff, Hanni Hoessrich and Luise Rainer. It has been presumed that Dumont was bisexual. Benkhoff appeared in more than 100 films between 1933 and 1967.
Selected filmography
- Charley's Aunt (1934)
- Heinz in the Moon (1934)
- The Two Seals (1934)
- Trouble with Jolanthe (1934)
- Mother and Child (1934)
- The Legacy of Pretoria (1934)
- What Am I Without You (1934)
- Amphitryon (1935)
- Street Music (1936)
- Boccaccio (1936)
- When Women Keep Silent (1937)
- The Marriage Swindler (1938)
- All Lies (1938)
- Opera Ball (1939)
- Wibbel the Tailor (1939)
- The Girl from Barnhelm (1940)
- What Does Brigitte Want? (1941)
- I Need You (1944)
- Everything Will Be Better in the Morning (1948)
- The Time with You (1948)
- Trouble Backstairs (1949)
- The Beaver Coat (1949)
- Friday the Thirteenth (1949)
- Taxi-Kitty (1950)
- Melody of Fate (1950)
- The Midnight Venus (1951)
- Pension Schöller (1952)
- When the Heath Dreams at Night (1952)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1952)
- Fanfare of Marriage (1953)
- The Singing Hotel (1953)
- We'll Talk About Love Later (1953)
- Must We Get Divorced? (1953)
- Maxie (1954)
- The Abduction of the Sabine Women (1956)
- The Telephone Operator (1954)
- On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight (1954)
- Wenn der Vater mit dem Sohne (1955)
- If We All Were Angels (1956)
- The Beggar Student (1956)
- The First Day of Spring (1956)
- Opera Ball (1956)
- A Summer You Will Never Forget (1959)