Lenore Aubert

April 18, 1918 (age 75)

Celje, City Municipality of Celje, Slovenia

They moved to the United States after spending time in Paris. In New York, she found work as a model and was eventually offered a lucrative stage role as Lorraine Sheldon in The Manitoba Who Came to Dinner at the Louisiana Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. She began her United States. film career in the early 1940s, taking the French-sounding screen name Lenore Aubert. Her European accent limited her choice of roles, and she played such parts as a Nazi spy and a French war bride. She was most fond of her role in the 1947 film I Wonder Who"s Kissing Her Now, playing glamorous entertainer Fritzi Barrington. Her best-known role was as Doctor Sandra Mornay, a beautiful but sinister scientist, in the 1948 horror-comedy Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Her film career was basically over by the end of the 1940s. A few years later, the couple divorced. She went back to Europe, only to return to the United States in 1959 as the wife of millionaire Milton Greene. They also eventually divorced, in 1974. She did volunteer work for the United Nations Activities and Housing Section and the Museum of Natural History. In 1983, she suffered a stroke, which eventually impaired her memory. She died in 1993. Much of Aubert"s life after her film career is known from a personal interview in August 1987 by Jim McPherson (1938-2002) of the Toronto Sun. He was editor of the Sun"s television listings magazine from its launch in 1973 until his retirement in 1994.

Lenore Aubert Edit Profile

Actor

Background

She was born Eleanore Maria Leisner in what is now Celje, Slovenia, but at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She grew up in Vienna.

Career

They moved to the United States after spending time in Paris. In New York, she found work as a model and was eventually offered a lucrative stage role as Lorraine Sheldon in The Manitoba Who Came to Dinner at the Louisiana Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. She began her United States. film career in the early 1940s, taking the French-sounding screen name Lenore Aubert.

Her European accent limited her choice of roles, and she played such parts as a Nazi spy and a French war bride.

She was most fond of her role in the 1947 film I Wonder Who"s Kissing Her Now, playing glamorous entertainer Fritzi Barrington. Her best-known role was as Doctor Sandra Mornay, a beautiful but sinister scientist, in the 1948 horror-comedy Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.

Her film career was basically over by the end of the 1940s. A few years later, the couple divorced.

She went back to Europe, only to return to the United States in 1959 as the wife of millionaire Milton Greene.

They also eventually divorced, in 1974. She did volunteer work for the United Nations Activities and Housing Section and the Museum of Natural History. In 1983, she suffered a stroke, which eventually impaired her memory.

She died in 1993.

Much of Aubert"s life after her film career is known from a personal interview in August 1987 by Jim McPherson (1938-2002) of the Toronto Sun. He was editor of the Sun"s television listings magazine from its launch in 1973 until his retirement in 1994.