Ida Wüst

In1946 her application for denazification was rejected because they testified that Ida Wüst denounced other people during the Nazi time, only in 1949 she was classed as "exanorated".

During the war time followed only few movies like "Sieben Jahre Pech" (1940), "Hauptsache glücklich" (1941) and "Schuss um Mitternacht" (1945).

She continued her successful career in the sound film era with "Bomben auf Monte Carlo" (1931), "Mein Leopold" (1931), "Peter Voss, der Millionendieb" (1932), "Charleys Tante" (1934), "Der Biberpelz" (1937) and "Zwei Welten" (1939).

She was an actress and writer, known for Madame Lu, die Frau für diskrete Beratung (1929), Die lustigen Weiber (1936) and Once a Great Lady (1934). She was married to Bruno Kastner.

In the movie "Tragödie der Liebe" (1923) Ida Wüst played her first bigger part in a film and subsequently she became established as a player of emancipated women.

She got married with the famous actor Bruno Kastner and they wrote together some scripts for the movies "Nur ein Diener" (1919) and "Der König von Paris" (1920).

Her first movie was probably "Im Rampenlicht" (1912) with Max Laurence, Ernst Pittschau and Tilly Waldegg.

The actress Ida Wüst began her theater career at the Stadttheater Bromberg at the beginning of the 20th century, from 1904 she had an engagement in Leipzig.

German character actress and occasional screenwriter. Began her career as an extra in opera. Stage debut in 1902, films from 1921. Under contract to Ufa, she was often cast in operettas or military comedies, specialising in robust, crusty old harridans: dominating mothers-in-law, henpecking wives, resolute aunts, grandmothers, and the like. Also appeared in several propaganda films during the Nazi period and consequently received a post-war acting ban, 1946-49.

Ida Wüst was born on October 10, 1884 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.