Trivia

In the early time of the talkies she appeared in her last movies.

Upon the rise of the Nazis in 1933, Boothby left Berlin and settled in France.

As a young adult writer, Valerie Boothby published stories like The Cat Captain: A Fantastic Tale and Growl and His Gang, or: Dogs Take Over a Town in the 1950s.

She lived in Cairo, Egypt for 15 years before returning to Hamburg in 1970, where she died on 14 April 1982.

She was the oldest of three daughters and was of German-Jewish ancestry.

She was a German actress, painter, and author.

At the beginning of her career she also used the pseudonym Vala de Lys.

She made her film debut in 1926 in The Clever Fox, directed by Conrad Wiene, and went on to appear in 22 more films, mainly typecast as a vamp, before retiring in 1931.

Valerie Boothby was born Wally Drucker on 18 October 1904 in Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg, in what was then the German Empire, although some sources list her birth year as 1906.

Her father was Ernst Drucker (1856-1918), an actor and theater owner.

In "Die Film-Illustrierte" (issue 38, Berlin September 21, 1928) it is stated that Valerie Boothby got married at the age of 16 and has recently (about 1928) been divorced again.

She made a name as a portrait painter - in addition to pictures of personalities from Egyptian society - , she painted also the "sea devil" Count Luckner, Albert Schweitzer and Theodor Heuss.

She was married to a noble Italian lawyer. Her name was then Contessa Valerie Boothby-Colonna.