Her Laughter was a balm for the audience of the post-war period. And it almost would have brought Liselotte Pulver even made it to Hollywood. But she became well-known especially with films of the economic miracle years.
Barefoot Liselotte Pulver stormed a round dining table, to the Soviet officials sitting. A Band is playing the “sabre dance” of Aram Chatschaturian, Lilo and dances wildly with torches in Hand and brings the dining room to the quake – a picture of Khrushchev from the frame to fall and brings behind it a portrait of Stalin to the fore.
In 1961, in many ways, unheard-of movie scene. “One, two, three” is a biting Comedy of Billy Wilder, on which the divided Berlin in the Cold war. The filming of the history of the world overrun: the construction of the wall. A challenge for the film crew, is finally, the now blocked Brandenburg gate, one of the motives. So the rotation needs to moved to Munich and Berlin are true recreated characters in the Studio.
However, the Film flops at the box office: Over a divided Berlin first of all, no one wants to laugh. “Not in the sense of Humor is evil. The topic is brutal. The topic requires such a sense of Humor,” said Liselotte powder in retrospect, in an Interview with the Berliner Morgenpost, 2011. “Behind the breakneck word battles the dangerous truth of the Situation is. ‘One, two, three’ is not a fancy game, but a dangerous Film.” Today, the Film is a cult because of it – and Lilo powder a figure of international film history.
Irresistible Laugh
As Billy filled Wilder for the role of the blond Fräulein Ingeborg, is Liselotte Pulver at the peak of their career. It is your authentic, happy Laugh and her irresistible Temperament, which makes them one of the most sought-after Actresses in Germany. At the end of the 1950s, it has been already with all of the then-acting sizes in front of the camera: Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, Horst Buchholz and Hanns Lothar.
Cinema classics of the post-war period: Lilo powder plays the Hungarian Piroschka
Born Lilo powder at 11. October 1929 in Bern. With 20 years she is used to the stage. And, soon, in front of the camera. Their first Film, “hair-dryer” (1950), a mountain drama film with Hans Albers, she turns just in the beginning of 20. Prior to that, the Swiss native has played in Bern and Zurich theatre. “The best memories I Interview actually the very first movie,” said powder in an ARD. An exciting time, especially because the premiere tour continues, the young Swiss rider, who has missed the Second world war only from afar, through a destroyed post-war Germany.
Bambi for lifetime achievement: Liselotte Pulver 2018
Powder turns a conveyor belt of up to four films a year, many of which are included in the collective film memory, such as the love film “I often think of Piroschka” (1955), or the Comedy “Wirtshaus im Spessart” (1958). The movie critics are not always thrilled the audience, however, loves powder with lightness and cheerfulness. Although it does not match with your almost stick figure, then the female ideal of beauty, it is the European movie star.
Missed Hollywood Career
In 1958, Hollywood knocking on the door: Douglas Sirk asks you for a serious role in “a time to live and time to die”. Liselotte powder, turns easily in the English language. She has a talent for languages, she had already proven in “I often think of Piroschka”, where she played with a Hungarian accent. But the Film is not a success. At the same time European requests and contracts to prevent further Hollywood spins. So you must have the main role in “Ben Hur” for reasons of timing, cancellations, as well as in “El Gid” – instead, Sophia Loren took on this Part. If it were, the chances of your life? At the time, she was very upset, recalls Liselotte powder in the ARD Interview. “Then it would be gone probably all quite different. Maybe not well, you don’t know everything. I don’t know if I would have been a type for America.”
Love of your life: actor Helmut Schmid
On the painful kink in the US-career an unexpected, happiness follows. During the filming of “Page” learns Liselotte Pulver know your future husband Helmut Schmid. During a Fechtszene she meets for the first Time on their “dream man” and falls in love with “immortal”.
Powder is supposed to have regularly fallen in love with her movie partner, however, so far, without the Happy ending. With Helmut Schmid, is different: The two married in 1961, moving into a house on lake Geneva and are the parents of a son and a daughter. Several times, the dream couple together in front of the camera. “We all knew each other so well, it was just natural, as with a foreign actor. Of course, being the Biggest, to play with him,” she recalls.
The Star of all generations
As in Germany, the mood of the cocky, cheerful post-war period rolls over to the critical 1968 Generation, is game the icon of the powder is not more in demand. Movie quotes from stay, instead, it plays more often in TV productions. The French author’s film “The nun” (1966) is an exception. Here she is playing on the side of Anna Karina in a lesbian Abbess. The two Actresses will be celebrated at the Cannes film festival, the Film, however, then prohibited.
Lilo powder with your new “colleagues” Samson (r.), and Tiffy and actor Henning Venske
For the post-war generation she is a movie Star, for the Generation of the 1980s, a Star of the children. In the pre-school series, “sesame street” is from 1978 to 1985, as “Lilo” in addition to the dolls, Tiffy, Finchen and Samson.
Private powder blows with a heavy fate to fight. In a short time, you will lose your then 21-year-old daughter, then your 67-year-old husband. With the 50-episode TV series “body and soul” ends Lilo of powder, at that time around 70 years old, your career. Today, the iconic spectacle lives as a recluse in her native town of Bern.