Charlott Daudert

Acting

Born December 27, 1913, Kaliningrad (Russia)

Whatever her limitations as an actress, Charlott Daudert made up for with wide-eyed effervescence and a cute, feisty personality. The bubbly blonde began working life as editor of the children's section of a newspaper (as 'Aunty Charlotte') in her home town of Königsberg, East Prussia. She also dabbled in drafting costume designs. The abandonment of her journalistic career seems to have come about all of a sudden and quite by accident: accompanying a friend to a theatrical audition as 'moral support' resulted in Charlotte, not the friend, being signed up for drama school. Her 'discovery' is generally credited to the renowned actor Max Pallenberg who took on the role of her mentor. Known by her peers as 'Charly', she made her debut in a minuscule part in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" and spent the next three years at Tilsit's Stadttheater under Pallenberg's direction. Following a brief stint in local radio, she then moved on to wider canvases in Berlin where she underwent further tuition by Leopold Jessner. By 1933, Charly had developed into an accomplished comedienne and come to the attention of Trude Hesterberg. She began performing comedy routines and singing in various popular cabarets, including "Musenschaukel" and "Die Katakombe". At the same time, she spiced up the screen as perpetually naive, sexy friends of the heroine. Her output was rather heavily weighted towards escapist entertainments, some of them not at all bad: April, April! (1935), Der Etappenhase (1937), Kitty und die Weltkonferenz (1939). Resuming in the same vein in the aftermath of World War II, the ever likeable, pert, dizzy Charlott warbled a popular hit song ("Ach du liebe Zeit, hat den kein Mensch mehr für die Liebe Zeit") in the ruins of Berlin in Nacht ohne Sünde (1950). There were diverse other supporting roles in box-office hits, including the caper comedies Klettermaxe (1952) and Der blaue Stern des Südens (1951). Sadly, despite her enduring popularity as a conveyor of uncomplicated happiness, genuine stardom was never to be on the cards. The decline of Charly's career was to be exacerbated by depression and alcoholism. On occasion, she would come on stage and forget or fumble her lines. By the autumn of 1960, she was making plans to retire from acting and run an artists B & B in Monaco. It never came to pass. Just four months later she was dead from a blood disorder at the age of 47. - IMDb mini biography by: I.S.Mowis

Filmography

• 1961Knock Out - Eine keineswegs unglaubliche Geschichte
• 1959For Love and Others — Mutter
• 1957Die Schönste — Frau Steiner
• 1956Uns gefällt die Welt — Dolly D'Or
• 1954Das Kreuz am Jägersteig — Pauline
• 1954Dein Mund verspricht mir Liebe — Rita
• 1954Sanatorium total verrückt — Lissy
• 1953Fräulein Casanova — Katja
• 1953Heute nacht passiert’s — Frau Lebedanz
• 1953Knall und Fall als Detektive — Lucie
• 1953Vergiß die Liebe nicht — Nora Pizzini
• 1952Father Needs a Wife — Lady with carnation  
• 1952Klettermaxe — Gerti
• 1952Oh, du lieber Fridolin — Gräfin Bleuforet
• 1951Drei Kavaliere — Fanny Holzmann
• 1950Der Theodor im Fußballtor — Charlotte
• 1950Die Nacht ohne Sünde — Charlotte
• 1950Geliebter Lügner — Modell
• 1950Hochzeit mit Erika — Emilie
• 1950Insolent and in Love — Isolde
• 1950Land der Sehnsucht
• 1945The Man in the Saddle — Ossi La Planta
• 1944I Have Dreamed of You — Röschen
• 1944Komm' zu mir zurück!
• 1943Der kleine Grenzverkehr — Doris
• 1943The Big Number — Mariettchen
• 1943The Crew of the Dora — Mathilde Kronschnabel
• 1943Zwei glückliche Menschen — Martelli
• 1942Der Hochtourist — Soubrette Fritzi Temary
• 1942Wenn du noch eine Heimat hast — Jule
• 1941The Sky-blue Evening Dress — Loni
• 1941Venus on Trial — Marianne
• 1940Liebesschule — Lola
• 1940Meine Tochter lebt in Wien — Ada de Niel
• 1940Seitensprünge — Lucy
• 1940The Last Round — Dolly
• 1939Das Gewehr über — Evelyne Thomson
• 1939Her First Experience — Josephine
• 1939Kitty and the World Conference — Mimi
• 1939Men Are That Way — Frieda, Ballettgirl, Beatrices Freundin
• 1939Midsummer Night's Fire — Elise
• 1939Modell Lu, der Lebensweg eines Hutes — Nelli Hasselbach
• 1939The Fourth Did Not Show Up — Anita
• 1939The Wise Mother in Law — Anni
• 1938Das Ehesanatorium — Rita Keller
• 1938Homeland — Freundin des Bankdirektors von Keller
• 1938Love Letters from the Engadine — Constance Farrington
• 1938The Man Who Can't Say No — Loletta
• 1937Brillanten — Fräulein Howard
• 1937Crooks in Tails
• 1937Der Etappenhase — Antje - ihre Freundin
• 1937Versprich mir nichts! — Vera Brenkow
• 1936Angels with Minor Faults — Inge Bauer / Ursula Bauer
• 1936Carnival in Flanders — Siska
• 1936Der schüchterne Casanova — Ada Zink
• 1935April, April! — Mirna Lampe
• 1934Da stimmt was nicht — Anny, Stubenmädchen
• 1934Frasquita — Dolly
• 1934Old Comrades — Maruschka
• 1934The Csardas Princess — Mädi vom Chantant