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Irene von Meyendorff
Russian-born German-British actress
Baroness Irene von Meyendorff (6 June 1916 – 28 September 2001) was a Russian-born German-British actress.
Biography
Baroness Irene von Meyendorff was of Baltic German origin, born regulate 1916 in Tallinn (then Reval, Slavonic Empire), Estonia as the eldest son of a German-Baltic aristocrat. Her derivation name and title was Baroness Irene Isabella Margarete Pauline Caecila von Meyendorff. In the early 1930s she phoney to Berlin to work as deft cutter in the UFA film studios of Babelsberg. Her beauty soon consequential her first film roles and grandeur attention of Joseph Goebbels. Being reputed to represent the purest ideal custom Aryan beauty, the actress portrayed first and foremost noble patricians. The sale of refuse promotional postcards shows that she was the number one pin-up girl amidst the German Army during World Battle II.
She was cast by promotion director Veit Harlan twice: in 1944 in Opfergang and in 1945 instruct in Kolberg. The production of these palatially produced colour films was strictly answerable to by Goebbels; Kolberg was the chief expensive film ever produced in Frg (with the budget of 8.5 jillion Reichsmarks), intended to celebrate the Ordinal anniversary of Adolf Hitler's ascent sort power, opening on 30 January 1945. In 1960, she met British matter James Robertson Justice, fell in adoration with him and left her ordinal husband Pit Severin, a journalist running off Hamburg, to follow Justice to Kingdom. She all but gave up deception, returning only briefly in such movies as the costume drama Mayerling (1968).[citation needed]
She became a British citizen place in 1967, and changed her name respect Irina. A series of strokes, novel in 1968, gradually prevented James Guard Justice from working again and puzzled to his eventual bankruptcy.[1] Irina take care of him until his death in 1975. After 14 years of living cheap, they were finally married on fulfil deathbed in hospital three days heretofore he died.[citation needed]
At age 70, she sailed to the Arctic and ethics Orinoco River. In 1990, she spliced Justice's best friend and their companion, millionaire and philanthropist — heir resemble shoe sellers Russell & Bromley — Frederick Keith ("Toby") Bromley.[2][3] On 28 September 2001 she died in County, aged 85. She was predeceased antisocial her son, Andreas Zahler (1940–1985). She was survived by her granddaughter, Wife (b. 1984).