Career
After successful leading roles in productions of the well-established German UFA-studios in Babelsberg as well as in France, she was invited to Hollywood. Producers saw her as a cheap alternative to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. She was contracted with Radio-Keith-Orpheum. In 1935 she returned to Germany, but left soon thereafter.
Back in Hollywood, she dated Gary Cooper for a while but married Lithuanian-born actor/writer Ivan Lebedeff.
After Lebedeff"s death in 1953 of angina pectoris, she moved back to Europe, where she stayed with several friends in London and Stockholm before she went back to Germany.