- During the war time she got involved in the troops care in France, but when the threat also grew in France, she went via Portugal to the USA where she worked for the Red Cross. She generally refused all film offers - most of them were small support roles. Instead of this she frequently appeared on stage. In 1946 she returned to Europe again.
- In her private life she became acquainted with the theater director Hartvig Valeur-Larsen. They got married but the marriage was only lasting for four years. Eventually her secretary Else-Pitty Wirth became her partner.
- The political turbulences of the 30's also left its mark on the great Lillian Harvey. She spoke for the choreographer Jens Keith and finally helped him to escape to Switzerland. As a result Lillian Harvey was interrogated by the Gestapo.
- Her later parts at the theater weren't very successful and Lillian Harvey retired from the film and theater business.
- Although she invested the main part of her fortune into real estates she decided - also because she was a British citizen - to emigrate to France in 1939. There she took financial part in her last two movies "Serenade" (1940) and "Miquette" (1940), but the movies weren't successful.During this time she became dispossessed in Germany and lost the bulk of her wealth.
- The actress Lillian Harvey was born as Lilian Helen Muriel Pape in London-Hornsey. Her family took up residence at Berlin in 1914, Lillian Harvey was sent to Switzerland during the war time where she lived with her aunt. After her return to Berlin she attended a ballet school at the Staatsoper Berlin in 1923 and was soon on the way with first tours through Europe.
- She was invited to Hollywood and made four movies for the Fox Film Corporation, but these were not as successful as her German films. She eventually abandoned George White's Scandals, leading executives to cast Alice Faye in the part, and Faye became an overnight sensation.
- In 1930 she became the muse of the composer Charles Koechlin who, in his sixties, wrote numerous pieces in her honour; initially flattered, she soon became disturbed by his apparent obsession with her.
- As she was still in touch with her Jewish colleagues, Harvey was placed under close observation by the Gestapo. Nevertheless she pushed the career of her protégé, director Paul Martin, performing in his screwball comedy Lucky Kids (1936) and further successful movies for the UFA until 1939, such as Seven Slaps, the biographical film Fanny Elssler (1937) together with Willy Birgel and Capriccio; as well as Frau am Steuer in 1939.
- Harvey received compensation in the form of a pension from the federal government for the assets confiscated during the Nazi era.
- Harvey retired to the resort town of Antibes on the French Riviera, where she operated a souvenir shop and raised edible snails.
- During a performance at the Ronacher theater she was spotted for the film business.
- Her brother was the cinematographer Walter J. Harvey.
- In spring 1939, Harvey left Germany and her real-estate fortune, which was confiscated; she was to be deprived of her German citizenship in 1943 because she had performed for French troops.
- Her first movie with Willy Fritsch was the operetta film Chaste Susanne in 1926. Harvey and Fritsch became the "dream couple" of German movies in the early 1930s with the romantic love story Waltz of Love; she was called the "sweetest girl in the world" by the press, after a song featured in the film. She and Fritsch starred in a total of 11 movies together, among them the criminal comedy Hokuspokus (1930) after a play by Curt Goetz, directed by Gustav Ucicky, which became a box office success. An English version (The Temporary Widow) was filmed simultaneously, starring Lilian Harvey and Laurence Olivier, who thereby made his film debut.
- In 1949, she returned to West Germany giving several concerts.
- After the war, Harvey moved to Paris. In the following years, she travelled as a singer through Scandinavia and Egypt.
- In 1931, Harvey played the leading part in the film Der Kongreß tanzt (The Congress Dances); her song Das gibt's nur einmal written by Werner R. Heymann became a most popular melody. Her subsequent movies were filmed in English and French versions, so Harvey became known outside of Germany.
- Because of her training as a singer, Harvey was able to pursue a successful acting career during the initial talkie era of the early 1930s.
- After an engagement as a revue dancer in Vienna in 1924, Harvey received her first movie role as the young Jewish girl "Ruth" in the Austrian film The Curse directed by Robert Land.
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