Greta Meyer
Born: 1883-08-06 in Dessau, Germany
Died: 1965-10-08
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Greta Meyer (August 7, 1883 – October 8, 1965) was a German actress in motion pictures beginning in the silent film era. She performed for almost seventy years. She belonged to the most famous theatrical family in Germany, comparable to the Barrymore family in America. Her early film efforts came in films like De jantjes (1922) and Die Königsloge (1929). Meyer came to America in 1923 from her native Germany. She subsequently became a U.S. citizen. She appeared in many Hollywood movies between 1933 and 1942, including The Great Waltz (1938) and Bitter Sweet (1940).
Filmography
1942
- Reunion in France as Customer (uncredited)
- Friendly Enemies as Gretchen
1941
- Come Live with Me as Frieda
- Million Dollar Baby
1940
- Bitter Sweet as Mama Luden
- Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet as Female Nurse
- The Man I Married as Hausfrau
1939
- The Women as Masseuse (uncredited)
- When Tomorrow Comes as Madeleine's Nurse (uncredited)
- No Place to Go as Hilda
- Twelve Crowded Hours as Mrs. Rovitch (uncredited)
1938
- Torchy Gets Her Man as Mrs. Schmidt (uncredited)
- The Patient in Room 18 as Hilda - Lethany Housekeeper
- Three Loves Has Nancy as Mrs. Swanson, a Masseuse (uncredited)
- The Great Waltz as Mrs. Vogelhuber
1937
- Fly Away Baby as Mama - Zeppelin Passenger (uncredited)
- When Love Is Young as Hannah Werner
- I'll Take Romance as Hans' Mother
- Bill Cracks Down as Hilda
- Damaged Goods as Bertha (the wet nurse)
- Night of Mystery
1936
- Wife vs. Secretary as Molly (uncredited)
- Libeled Lady as Connie Allenbury's Maid (uncredited)
- These Three as Viennese Waitress (uncredited)
- Suzy as Mrs. Schmidt
- Spendthrift as Hilda - the Maid
1935
- Naughty Marietta as Frau Schuman
- Biography of a Bachelor Girl as Minnie, Marion's Maid
- Diamond Jim as Masseuse
- Smart Girl as Mrs. Krausemeyer
- Public Hero Number 1 as Glass' Housekeeper (uncredited)
- Laddie as Candace
- The Return Of Peter Grimm as Marta
- Mister Dynamite as Jans
- Twin Triplets as Mrs. Borgerschmith
1934
- Forsaking All Others as Bella (Uncredited)
- Servants' Entrance as Anna, the Cook
- The Line-Up as Mrs. Peterson
- Strange Wives as Hilda
- Elmer Steps Out
1933
- Stage Mother as Dancing Girl's Mother (uncredited)
- Bombshell as Lola's Masseuse (uncredited)
- The Nuisance as Mrs. Mannheimer
- Pilgrimage
- The Chief as Little Heinie's Mother
- Whistling in the Dark as Mrs. Barfuss (uncredited)
- Meet the Baron as Aunt Sophie (uncredited)
- Let's Fall in Love as Lisa Bjorkman
1932
- Grand Hotel as Housekeeper in Room 174 (uncredited)
- The Man from Yesterday as Swiss Inn Proprietress
- Flesh as Mrs. Herman
- The Match King as Marta's Maid Trudi (uncredited)
1931
- Tonight or Never as Emma