Lady-like Leny Marenbach was Germany's answer to Irene Dunne. She seemed to have little artifice about her and was therefore ideally suited to play gentle, impeccably well-mannered model wives or brave battlers against the forces of adversity. In more emancipated mode, she added a much-needed sparkle to assorted mainstream melodramas and could ...
The actress Leny Marenbach began her stage career at the age of 16 at the Schauspielhaus Essen. Other engagements in Zurich, Vienna and Munich followed.
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She made her film debut in 1935 with the movie "Jana, das Mädchen aus dem Böhmerwald" and alredy with her second movie "Wenn wir alle Engel wären" (1936) she caught her breakthrough. In this movie she played at Heinz Rühmann's side and they formed a German dream couple for a short time.
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Leny Marenbach continued acting successfully in front of the camera till the end of war.
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From the theater she withdrew from the 60's, only seldom she acted on German stages later.
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After the war she played at the theater before she could appear in movies again. But she wasn't able to go on from her earlier successes .
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