Elfie Mayerhofer

{{short description|Austrian actress and singer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Elfie Mayerhofer | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 15 March 1917 | birth_place = [[Maribor]], [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]] | death_date = 28 December 1992 (aged 75) | death_place = [[Maria Enzersdorf]], Austria | other_names = | occupation = Actress <br> singer | years_active = 1938–1968 (film) }} '''Elfie Mayerhofer''' (15 March 1917 – 28 December 1992) was an Austrian film actress and singer. A noted stage performer, she played lead roles in a series of musical and [[operetta films]] such as ''[[The Song of the Nightingale (1944 film)|The Song of the Nightingale]]'' (1944)<ref>Goble p.20</ref> and ''[[The Heavenly Waltz]]'' (1949).<ref>Fritsche p.179</ref> She was known as the "Viennese Nightingale".

==Selected filmography== * ''[[Women for Golden Hill]]'' (1938) * ''[[The Curtain Falls]]'' (1939) * ''[[Hotel Sacher (film)|Hotel Sacher]]'' (1939) * ''[[My Wife Theresa]]'' (1942) * ''[[A Man With Principles?]]'' (1943) * ''[[Music in Salzburg]]'' (1944) * ''[[The Song of the Nightingale (1944 film)|The Song of the Nightingale]]'' (1944) * ''[[Viennese Melodies]]'' (1947) * ''[[Anni (1948 film)|Anni]]'' (1948) * ''[[The Court Concert (1948 film)|The Court Concert]]'' (1948) * ''[[The Heavenly Waltz]]'' (1948) * ''[[Beloved Liar]]'' (1950) * ''[[Kissing Is No Sin (1950 film)|Kissing Is No Sin]]'' (1950) * ''[[Vanished Melody]]'' (1952) * ''[[Madame Pompadour (1960 film)|Madame Pompadour]]'' (1960)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0562547}}

==Bibliography== * Fritsche, Maria. ''Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity''. Berghahn Books, 2013. * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

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