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When Carmi became a supporter of the Guru Meher Baba, her marriage with Prince Matchabelli ended in divorce. She remained an active follower of the Guru until her death. She lived as a poor person in India until she had to return to the USA for cancer treatment.

After her divorce from Karl Gustav Vollmoeller in 1917, Carmi married a second time that same year to Prince George V. Matchabelli and became Princess Norina Matchabelli.

She began her stage career at Max Reinhardt's acting school and belonged to his company from 1907 to 1909. From 1911 she was also engaged on Italian stages.

During a guest performance in London, she got in contact with the Italian Cines company. She then varied her engagements between German and Italian productions.

Because of her charisma, Carmi was suited for the highbrow melodramas "Sperduti nel bulo" (1914) and "Teresa Raquin" (1914).

At the beginning of World War I, Carmi returned to Berlin and acted in movies that were mostly directed by Robert Reinert.

In Germany, she acted in two dramas of Karl Vollmöller, whom she married in 1904. When both stage plays of Vollmoeller were finally filmed, Carmi laid the foundation of her short career in the film business.

Carmi returned to Italy after World War I, where her former German movies were great successes. However, the affiliation with the Italian film industry wasn't granted to her. After only two movies, she decided to devote her career completely to the theater.

The movie "Das Mirakel" (1912) wasn't a film in the classic sense. It was more the filming of a theater production, while Vollmoeller's "Eine venezianische Nacht" (1913) was more in the style of a motion picture.

Carmi went to the USA in 1923 due to the intervention of Max Reinhardt. She acted in a New York production of "Das Mirakel" and after a tour through Detroit, Milwaukee and Dallas, she returned to New York and opened a drama school there.