Grete Mosheim

In 1984, she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Germany's highest civilian award.

Mosheim appeared in Germany for the first time after the war in 1952, making guest performances on television and visiting many cities playing leading roles in pieces by modern American dramatists such as Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, and John Van Druten.

In 1941 she came back to the American stage and belonged to the founders of the German-language ensemble "The Players from Abroad".

She was an actress, known for Car of Dreams (1935), The Dreyfus Case (1930) and Arm wie eine Kirchenmaus (1931). She was married to Robert Cooper, Howard Gould and Oskar Homolka.

Until 1933, when she went to London to escape Adolf Hitler's rise to power, she was pre-eminent in the Berlin theatre scene. She performed in a wide variety of roles, being equally at home in drama and comedy. After overcoming the language barrier with intensive study of English, she found roles onstage in London in 1934-35 in "Two Share a Dwelling" and in the 1935 film "Car of Dreams". In London, she met American railroad tycoon Howard Gould; he became her second husband in 1937. They moved to New York in 1938.

Mosheim was married three times: to actor Oskar Homolka in Berlin (1928-1933), to industrialist Howard Gould in London (1937-1948), and to journalist Robert Cooper, who was a correspondent for The Times. She had no children by any of her marriages.

She was trained at the Max Reinhardt School of Drama and made her reputation as an ensemble member with the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, 1922-31. In 1925, he gave her the chance to substitute in the play Der sprechende Affe by René Fauchois when the female lead became ill. She learned the difficult role in one day and became a star almost overnight. She left Germany due to her Jewish ancestry in 1933 and subsequently performed on stage in London and New York. She wed industrialist Howard Gould in 1937; they went to New York a year later. At his request she retired from the entertainment.Returned to Germany in 1952, but eventually settled in New York after marrying an American journalist.

Grete Mosheim was born on January 8, 1905 in Berlin, Germany as Margarete Emma Dorothea Mohsheim.