Tala Birell

Tala Birell

Born: September 10, 1907
Died: February 17, 1958
in Bucharest, Romania
Tala Birell , born Natalie Bierle, was a Romanian/American stage and screen actress. She made her debut in a hit in a Berlin stage production of the operetta "Madame Pompadour" and doubled for Marlene Dietrich in the musical revue, "Es liegt in der luft" (1928).

Movies for Tala Birell...

Jungle Safari
Title: Jungle Safari
Character: Dr. Elise Bork
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Feature version of the 1945 Universal serial, JUNGLE QUEEN.
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Homicide for Three
Title: Homicide for Three
Character: Rita Brown
Released: December 8, 1948
Type: Movie
While on shore leave to celebrate his first anniversary, Lt. Peter Duluth (Warren Douglas) takes his wife, Iris (Audrey Long), to a Los Angeles hotel but is turned away. When mysterious Colette (Stephanie Bachelor) offers them her suite, the young couple becomes entangled in a murder plot. Aided by two PIs, Peter and Iris find two corpses and are desperate to locate Colette before she becomes the next victim, but the killers are one step ahead.
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Women in the Night
Title: Women in the Night
Character: Yvette Aubert
Released: January 2, 1948
Type: Movie
During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the Japanese.
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Song of Love
Title: Song of Love
Character: Princess Valerie Hohenfels
Released: October 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.
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Philo Vance's Secret Mission
Title: Philo Vance's Secret Mission
Character: Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips
Released: August 30, 1947
Type: Movie
Philo Vance is hired to write a true-crime mystery... but when the facts about an unsolved crime are about to be brought out into the open a murder takes place.
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Philo Vance's Gamble
Title: Philo Vance's Gamble
Character: Tina Cromwell
Released: April 12, 1947
Type: Movie
One of two Philo Vance mystery movies released by PRC.
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Dangerous Millions
Title: Dangerous Millions
Character: Sonia Bardos
Released: November 27, 1946
Type: Movie
Eight strangers meet in Shanghai to stake claims to the fortune of a late shipping magnate, then must evade a murderer in their midst.
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Girls of the Big House
Title: Girls of the Big House
Character: Alma Vlasek
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.
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The Frozen Ghost
Title: The Frozen Ghost
Character: Mme. Monet
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die because he was angry with the man. Riddled with guilt, the mentalist cancels further shows, breaks off his engagement to his female partner, who can read minds while in a hypnotic trance, and takes refuge in the eerie wax-museum-cum-home of another woman friend.
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The Power of the Whistler
Title: The Power of the Whistler
Character: Constantina Ivaneska
Released: April 19, 1945
Type: Movie
A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.
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Jungle Queen
Title: Jungle Queen
Character: Dr. Elise Bork
Released: January 22, 1945
Type: Movie
A young girl journeys to Africa to find her father, an explorer who vanished in the jungle.
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Mrs. Parkington
Title: Mrs. Parkington
Character: Lady Nora Ebbsworth
Released: October 12, 1944
Type: Movie
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
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Make Your Own Bed
Title: Make Your Own Bed
Character: Miss Marie Gruber
Released: June 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.
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The Monster Maker
Title: The Monster Maker
Character: Maxine
Released: April 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.
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The Purple Heart
Title: The Purple Heart
Character: Johanna Hartwig - Berlin News Correspondent
Released: February 25, 1944
Type: Movie
This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.
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The Song of Bernadette
Title: The Song of Bernadette
Character: Madame Leontine Bruat
Released: December 21, 1943
Type: Movie
In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the Virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.
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Women in Bondage
Title: Women in Bondage
Character: Ruth Bracken
Released: December 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Women in Bondage is a 1943 World War II film about conditions for women under Hitler's regime. The plot involves two women imprisoned for speaking out against the government. It was directed by Steve Sekely and starred Gail Patrick and Nancy Kelly.
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Isle of Forgotten Sins
Title: Isle of Forgotten Sins
Character: Christine
Released: August 15, 1943
Type: Movie
An evil sea captain and the forces of nature threaten two divers' search for a fortune in gold in the South Pacific.
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China
Title: China
Character: Blonde Russian
Released: April 21, 1943
Type: Movie
Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the sufferings of the Chinese, Jones meets compassionate teacher Carolyn Grant while travelling cross-country to Shanghai. Sparks fly between these strong-willed characters, neither budging an inch. But when Jones witnesses a Japanese atrocity, his feelings toward his customers (and Carolyn) begin to change...
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One Dangerous Night
Title: One Dangerous Night
Character: Sonia Budenny
Released: January 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Reformed jewel thief the Lone Wolf investigates the murder of a playboy who was blackmailing three socialites.
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Seven Miles from Alcatraz
Title: Seven Miles from Alcatraz
Character: Baroness
Released: November 18, 1942
Type: Movie
After Pearl Harbor, convicts at Alcatraz prison live in fear of bomb attacks, driving Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo to a desperate escape attempt which lands them on a tiny lighthouse island, where they take over. The five inhabitants are stymied in their efforts to summon aid. But the island also figures in the schemes of a big Nazi spy ring; which will win out, the gangsters' greed or their patriotism?
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Josette
Title: Josette
Character: Mlle. Josette
Released: June 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
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Invisible Enemy
Title: Invisible Enemy
Character: Sandra Kamarov
Released: April 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent unscrupulous industrialist Nikolai Kamarov from gaining control of their oil fields and turning them over to a foreign power.
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Bringing Up Baby
Title: Bringing Up Baby
Character: Mrs. Lehman
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
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As Good as Married
Title: As Good as Married
Character: Princess Cherry Bouladoff
Released: May 9, 1937
Type: Movie
When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.
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She's Dangerous
Title: She's Dangerous
Character: Stephanie Duval
Released: January 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.
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White Legion
Title: White Legion
Character: Dr. Sterne
Released: October 24, 1936
Type: Movie
In the early 1900s, as the Panama Canal is being built, a group of doctors try to discover a cure for yellow fever, a disease that is decimating the workers constructing the canal.
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The Lone Wolf Returns
Title: The Lone Wolf Returns
Character: Liane Mallison
Released: December 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanyard also known as the Lone Wolf once retired from the "trade" but relapses back into his old habits when he is tempted by the emerald pendant of beautiful socialite Marcia Stewart. The trouble (?) is that he falls for the belle and he soon gets more interested in getting the girl than the jewels that adorn her. What he wants now is to return the pendant but a rival gang interfere and force him to take part in a big-time caper.
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Crime and Punishment
Title: Crime and Punishment
Character: Antonya Raskolnikov
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A man is haunted by a murder he's committed.
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Spring Tonic
Title: Spring Tonic
Character: Lola
Released: June 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.
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Air Hawks
Title: Air Hawks
Character: Renee Dupont
Released: May 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.
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Let's Live Tonight
Title: Let's Live Tonight
Released: March 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Nick Kerry (Tullio Carminati) is a rich rounder who holds tremendous fascination over women......mainly because he is rich and has his own yacht. At Monte Carlo one evening he romances Kay Routledge (Lilian Harvey), a romantic young and gullible American girl. She takes the dilettante seriously and when he sails away on his yacht, she is heartbroken. But the memory of her haunts him, and brings him back from India and the arms of another woman,Countess Margot de Legere (Tala Birell),only to find Kay now engaged to his friend. Oh, what's a rich guy to do?
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The Captain Hates the Sea
Title: The Captain Hates the Sea
Character: Gerta Klangi
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.
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Let's Fall in Love
Title: Let's Fall in Love
Character: Hedwig Forsell
Released: December 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
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Nagana
Title: Nagana
Character: Countess Sandra Lubeska
Released: February 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.
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The Doomed Battalion
Title: The Doomed Battalion
Character: Maria Di Mai
Released: April 30, 1932
Type: Movie
During World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the Italian army.
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My Cousin From Warsaw
Title: My Cousin From Warsaw
Character: Lucienne
Released: August 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Meine Kusine aus Warschau (My Cousin From Warsaw) was based on a stage play by Louis Verneuil. It's a romantic farce, with the heroine posing as her own cousin to carry on two amours at once.
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The Boudoir Diplomat
Title: The Boudoir Diplomat
Character: Marie-Anne
Released: February 17, 1931
Type: Movie
The ambassador of the Kingdom of Luvaria orders Baron Belmar, his attaché, to win the interest of Mona, wife of the war minister, who opposes a treaty the ambassador very much wants signed. However, his mission is complicated by the fact that Helene, the ambassador's wife, is extremely jealous of every woman he meets, for she was responsible for getting him his appointment as attaché. Belmar, nevertheless, is in love with Greta, who will not marry him until he is proven worthy of her trust. After many narrow escapes from exposure of the personal intrigue, he manages to sway the attentions of Mona, who persuades the war minister to sign the treaty, thus gaining Belmar an appointment as ambassador to Peru and Greta as his wife.
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The Love Storm
Title: The Love Storm
Character: Eileen Kell
Released: November 21, 1930
Type: Movie
This is the German-language version of the British film The Love Storm (1931).
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The act of Andreas Harmer
Title: The act of Andreas Harmer
Character: Othmars Valentin's Gattin
Released: March 7, 1930
Type: Movie