Lya Lys
Acting
Biography
Lya Lys (born Nathalie Margoulis; May 18, 1908 – June 2, 1986) was a German actress.
Born: May 18, 1908
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Known For
Vagabond Lady
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
The Merry Widow
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
L'Âge d'or
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers led by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader Mohammed Khan. Surly McGregor and wry, blue-blooded Forsythe are officers in charge of newcomer Lieutenant Stone, the commanding officer’s inexperienced son. Motivated by a grudge toward his father, Lt. Stone allows himself to be captured by the enemy.
The Young in Heart
A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.
Clear All Wires!
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.
My Dear Miss Aldrich
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
The Great Gambini
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.
The Return of Doctor X
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
Filmography
as Hilda Riker
as Angela
as Erika Wolf
as The Queen (uncredited)
as Luba
as Pat, Tony's Friend (uncredited)
as French Girl - Old Southern Custom (uncredited)
as Girl on Train (uncredited)
as Pola Wenski
as (uncredited)
as Eugenie
as Leila Crofton
as The Woman
as Nora