John Gilbert, Eva von Berne in Victor Sjöström's The Masks of the Devil Eva von Berne, the Austrian actress brought to Hollywood as a potential Greta Garbo rival and who played the ingénue in the apparently lost John Gilbert-Alma Rubens silent drama The Masks of the Devil (1928) — her sole American movie — has died. Again. Von Berne, according to many sources including the IMDb, had already passed away in 1930, purportedly from "excessive dieting." (Other "reports" claim she died in a car crash.) Now, via the Everett Collection's Eve Golden — sourcing content originally posted at the online forum voy.com, also published in the German newspaper Die Welt — I learn that von Berne actually died "after a short illness" on Nov. 9, 2010, in the Hungarian town of Hedervar. Von Berne was 100 years old. Much as I tried in the last couple of hours, I couldn't find any [...]...
- 1/18/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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