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- Birth nameLotte Mosbacher
- Was an aspiring Jewish stage actress in Germany and had to flee in 1934 with her first husband, the cutter (film editor) Victor Palfi, after the Nazis came to power. She played only bit parts in Hollywood, many of them uncredited. Her most memorable roles were in Casablanca (1942), where she was "the woman who has to sell her diamonds" in order to escape the Nazis and in Marathon Man (1976), where she was "the woman on 47th street," chasing a Nazi who is trying to escape with robbed diamonds.
In 1943, she married the German-American actor Wolfgang Zilzer (stage name: Paul Andor), who had been the "man with expired papers" in Casablanca (1942). The couple divorced in old age when the American-born Zilzer wanted to die in Germany and his wife refused to return to her native country.
- IMDb mini biography by: k.hero
- SpousesWolfgang Zilzer(1943 - 1991) (divorced)Victor Palfi (divorced)
- Appearances in many WWII or films dealing with nazism.
- Appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Blossoms in the Dust (1941), Casablanca (1942) and All That Jazz (1979). Of those, Casablanca (1942) is a winner in the category.
- Lotte Mosbacher, who comes from a middle-class Jewish family, worked as an aspiring stage actress in Darmstadt , among other places . After the seizure of power of the Nazis , she fled in 1934 with her first husband, the film editor Viktor Palfi , through France and Spain to the United States .
- Wolfgang (Paul) and Lotte divorced after almost 50 years, close to both their deaths, when Zilzer's Parkinson's disease grew worse. Zilzer wanted to die in Germany and Lotte refused ever to go there again. Zilzer died on June 26, 1991 in Berlin, Germany at the age of 90. After a long illness, Palfi died two weeks later on July 8, 1991 in her apartment in New York City, just 20 days short of her 88th birthday.
- In 1976 John Schlesinger hired Lotte Palfi-Andor, who had not worked for the film since 1952, for a small but impressive role in his thriller The Marathon Man with Dustin Hoffman . As a victim of the Holocaust , she recognizes her tormentor, the concentration camp doctor Szell ( Laurence Olivier ), and chases him screaming through 47th Street in New York City.
- In 1943 Palfi married actor, and German refugee, Wolfgang Zilzer, who had just changed his name to Paul Andor. They had appeared in a number of movies together and had fallen in love during the filming of Casablanca. She appeared in movie credits now as Lotte Palfi-Andor.
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