Irene von Meyendorff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Irene von Meyendorff

actress

Date of Birth: 06-Jun-1916

Place of Birth: Tallinn, Estonia

Date of Death: 28-Sep-2001

Profession: film actor

Nationality: United Kingdom, German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Irene von Meyendorff (6 June 1916 – 28 September 2001) was a German-British Russian born actress. Irene von Meyendorff was of Baltic German origin, born in 1916 in Tallinn (then Reval, Russia), Estonia as the eldest child of a German-Baltic aristocrat.
Her birth name and title was Baroness Irene Isabella Margarete Pauline Caecila von Meyendorff.
In the early 1930s she came to Berlin to work as a cutter in the UFA film studios of Babelsberg.
Her beauty soon landed her first film roles and the attention of Joseph Goebbels.
Representing the purest ideal of Aryan beauty, the actress portrayed mostly noble patricians.
The sale of her promotional post cards shows that she was the number one pin-up girl among the German Army during World War II. She was cast by propaganda director Veit Harlan twice: in 1944 in Opfergang and in 1945 in Kolberg.
The production of these elaborately produced color films was strictly supervised by Goebbels; Kolberg was the most expensive film ever produced in Germany (with the budget of 8.5 million Reichsmarks), produced to celebrate the 12th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's ascent to power, opening on 30 January 1945.
In 1960 she met British actor James Robertson Justice, fell in love with him and left her third husband Pit Severin, a journalist from Hamburg, to follow Justice to England.
She all but gave up acting, returning only briefly in such films as the costume drama Mayerling (1968).