- Born
- Died
- Birth namePaula Anna Maria Wessely
- Nickname
- The Wessely
- Paula Wessely was born on January 20, 1907 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress and producer, known for Episode (1935), Masquerade in Vienna (1934) and Maria Theresia (1951). She was married to Attila Hörbiger. She died on May 11, 2000 in Vienna, Austria.
- SpouseAttila Hörbiger(November 23, 1935 - April 27, 1987) (his death, 3 children)
- Children
- RelativesThomas Hörbiger(Niece or Nephew)
- Laurence Olivier considered Wessely one of the greatest actresses of the twentieth century.
- Bette Davis was known to have studied Wessely's film performances.
- Theatre actress at the famous Burgtheater in Vienna from 1953 to 1987. She retired from acting shortly after her husband's death.
- As she appeared on antisemitic propaganda movies, she was criticized later by Austrian intellectuals. Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek considered Heimkehr (1941) the worst Nazi propaganda movie of all and called Wessely "the prototype of an actress in the Third Reich".
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