 (January 10, 1899 - November 27,
1931) was a Hungarian film actress of the silent era.
She began her stage career on the Hungarian Vaudeville circuit. She
soon progressed to Berlin, where after performing in the ballet, she
made her screen debut in 1918. She became the premiere danseuse at
the Berlin Winter Garden in 1924.
Around that time German film director Jol Mai noticed her and cast
her in her first important film, The Mistress of the World. She
followed this success with noteworthy performances in Manon Lescaut
and Variety. The latter, from 1925, featured her opposite Emil
Jannings. Both films are Ufa productions. While in Germany De Putti
starred with such actors as Conrad Veidt and was filmed by directors
F.W. Murnau and Fritz Lang.
The actress came to America in February 1926. At the time she told
reporters she was twenty-two years old. Her ocean liner's records
list her as having been twenty-six.
De Putti was generally cast as a vamp character, and often wore her
dark hair short, in a style similar to that of Louise Brooks or
Colleen Moore. |
