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Jester Naefe Profile
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(Jester Helen Nefe) |
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12 September 24 / 25 | is born in Vienna, Austria; her father is Herbert Naefe, a truck driver |
c. 40 | at age 16, she is off to Berlin to attend Ackermanns Theater School |
? | is on stage at the Breslauer Schauspielhaus in Breslau |
? | is on stage at the Intime Theater in Hamburg |
48 | director Rolf Meyer discovers her for the movies |
? | gets married and divorced |
? | marries import businessman Alfred Tauszky, the son of a Hungarian and a cleaning woman, and makes her home in Hamburg, Germany |
21 July 50 / 51 | her daughter, Vivian, is born. She will become a renowned director. |
? | Tauszky slaps her in public during a reception in Bad Oldesloe |
June 51 | when prosecuted for tax evasion, Tauszky flees from Hamburg to Italy. Jester and her little daughter go with him. |
c. 51-53 | the Tauszkys make their home in Rome, where her second daughter, Silvia, is born. Finally, Tauszky deserts his family and flees to Caracas, Venezuela. |
? | returns to Germany |
50s | her address is Hamburg 20, Heilwigstrasse 40 |
54 | is on the back cover of Film Revue, #1 |
c. 56 | divorces Tauszky |
? | the press calls her the German Marilyn Monroe |
56 | lives in Munich |
57 | while filming La Ragazza della salina in Portoroz, Yugoslavia, she has a fighting scene with fellow actress Isabella Corey. During the scene, she falls and hits the back of her head on a rock. She soon starts getting bad headaches. |
the headaches are followed by temporary paralysis |
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Easter 58 | her illness vanishes, and she is off to the States for a TV show |
? | actor Gregory Peck calls her one of the most attractive and beautiful women in the world |
January 59 | is treated at a Munich hospital |
is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis |
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? | when she becomes ill, her friends desert her |
60s | when the medical bills consume all of her earnings, she retires to live with her mother, in her modest home in Wolfratshausen |
64 | is totally paralyzed and temporarily blind |
6 July 67 | dies at age 42 in Geretsried, near Wolfratshausen, Upper Bavaria, Germany, of multiple sclerosis. Her mother and daughter Vivian are at her side. The obituaries give her age as 37. |
Sources: Bild, www.IMDb.com, Starpress | |
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