Lya Lys

Lya Lys

Born: May 18, 1908
Died: June 2, 1986
in Berlin, Germany
Lya Lys (born Nathalie Margoulis; May 18, 1908 – June 2, 1986) was a German actress.

Movies for Lya Lys...

Murder in the Air
Title: Murder in the Air
Character: Hilda Riker
Released: June 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with $50,000 and a tattoo of a circle and arrow. This is a tattoo for saboteurs for hire and Brass must impersonate the dead man to find out what his orders are. As Steve Coe, he meets with the band of enemy agents in California and everything goes well until the wife of the dead 'Hobo' shows up. Luckily, Gabby is able to save Brass and Brass learns what is his assignment. He is to board the USN airship 'Mason', which is testing the super secret Inertia Projector, and destroy the airship.
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The Return of Doctor X
Title: The Return of Doctor X
Character: Angela
Released: November 23, 1939
Type: Movie
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Title: Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Character: Erika Wolf
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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The Young in Heart
Title: The Young in Heart
Released: July 6, 1938
Type: Movie
A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.
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My Dear Miss Aldrich
Title: My Dear Miss Aldrich
Character: The Queen (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
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The Great Gambini
Title: The Great Gambini
Character: Luba
Released: June 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.
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Vagabond Lady
Title: Vagabond Lady
Character: Pat - Tony's Friend (uncredited)
Released: May 3, 1935
Type: Movie
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
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George White's 1935 Scandals
Title: George White's 1935 Scandals
Character: French Girl - Old Southern Custom (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer discovers new talent in a small Georgia town and brings them to New York for his new show.
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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Title: The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Character: Girl on Train (uncredited)
Released: January 11, 1935
Type: Movie
In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers leaded by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader Mohammed Khan. After two casualties, the experienced but insubordinate Lieutenant Alan McGregor receives as replacement, the arrogant Lieutenant Forsythe and the immature son of Colonel Stone, Lieutenant Donald Stone. With the intention to prove that he will not have any privilege in the troop, the reception of Colonel Stone to his son is absolutely cold, but he becomes the protégé of McGregor. When Lieutenant Stone is kidnapped by Mohammed Khan, McGregor and Forsythe disobey the direct order of their commander, disguise as Indian peddlers and go to Khan's fortress to attempt to rescue their friend.
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The Merry Widow
Title: The Merry Widow
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
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Jimmy and Sally
Title: Jimmy and Sally
Character: Pola Wenski
Released: November 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Jimmy is a wiseguy press agent whose efforts to promote a meat-packing firm come to naught. Our hero is fired from his job, whereupon his sweetheart Sally steps in, immediately succeeding where Jimmy had failed.
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The Big Brain
Title: The Big Brain
Released: August 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion. As his bank account grows, Stone's ethics diminish, and soon he's playing fast and loose with other people's money. Disgruntled investor Fay Wray is the one who finally blows the whistle on the prevaricating hair-snipper.
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Clear All Wires!
Title: Clear All Wires!
Character: Eugenie
Released: February 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.
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Casanova wider Willen
Title: Casanova wider Willen
Released: October 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Jeffrey wants to marry Virginia, who refuses to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica, gets married first.
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Let Us Be Gay
Title: Let Us Be Gay
Released: April 17, 1931
Type: Movie
This is the French-language version produced by MGM of Let Us Be Gay (1930))
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L'Âge d'or
Title: L'Âge d'or
Character: The Woman
Released: November 28, 1930
Type: Movie
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
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Morals at Midnight
Title: Morals at Midnight
Character: Nora
Released: June 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Berlin, the center of pleasures and kingdom of small virtues. From all over Germany, young night owls come to burn themselves cheerfully in its lights, to drown in its champagne and fill its boxes and restaurants until dawn.
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Mother Hummingbird
Title: Mother Hummingbird
Released: October 23, 1929
Type: Movie
A neglected Baroness falls in love with her oldest son's military officer friend, their adulterous romance leading the two to flee to Algeria.