33.00 USD
Autographed Card, Viennese Silent Film Star, Lilly Flohr, circa 1920s
Viennese actress Lilly Flohr (1902-?) was a very popular silent film star in the 1920s. Here we see this charming lady costumed in a traditional peasant costume. Published by Hermann Leiser of Berlin.
With the 1930s, came Herr Hitler and his thugs. Fraulein Flohr was Jewish, and when in the '30s she was forbidden the right to work in Germany and her position in Austria looked less and less workable, she emigrated, along with a large population of Jewish refugees, to Shanghai, China.
We can't find much regarding her history during that period in her life. Shanghai was a pretty tough old town at that time. Political upheaval, rival criminal gangs struggling for supremacy, and in 1937, when Japan made war on China, times got even tougher. Fraulein Flohr was admired for her courage and talent within the refugee community, and is remembered for performing in community theater and also as a singer at the "Elite Club," a nightspot in old Shanghai. There the trail ends, at least for now. We find no death notices, and she may have been one of the countless displaced and disappeared people that wars inevitably produce.
Very cute card in nice unposted condition. Please examine our high res scans for detail.
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