Background
Huber was born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria in 1914.
Huber was born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria in 1914.
She received training as an actress from Doctor Beer who later arranged her stage debut in Zurich. She had her first film role in 1935 in Tanzmusik, followed by Savoy-Hotel 217 (1936). Among her better-known films were Der Mann, von dem man spricht (1937), Land der Liebe (1937), Kleiner Mann - ganz gross! (1938), Marguerite (1939), and Jenny und der Herr im Frack (1941), after which she worked for four years at the Viennese Burgtheater and elsewhere onstage.
She acted only occasionally thereafter, most notably appearing on Broadway three times (Flight into Egypt, Dial M for Murder as Margot Wendice, and The Diary of Anne Frank).
Her last film role was Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank (The Diary of Anne Frank. 1959), in which she reprised the role of Anne Frank"s mother, Edith, which caused controversy in some circles as Huber was rumoured to have been too close to the National Socialists, but Garson Kanin reportedly stood by the casting.
American Heritage wrote of Huber"s attempts to distance herself from her wartime past: In Vienna before the war she had refused to work with a Jewish actor and director, and in Germany during the war she had continued to make movies under the Third Reich.. At the very same time Anne was murdered in Bergen-Belsen, Gusti was busy shooting a screen comedy.
.. But Huber was a Broadway star and never.. gained traction.