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Jenny Jugo(1904-2001)

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Jenny Jugo
A lively brunette, dimple-cheeked actress with a tom-boyish, unaffected manner who briefly flirted with stardom in a string of romantic comedies during the mid-1930's. The daughter of a factory owner, Jenny was educated at a convent school in Austria. A short-lived marriage to the Italian actor Emo Jugo brought her to Berlin where she was spotted by the distinguished film producer Erich Pommer and subsequently signed to a contract with Ufa. Her comedic talents were not fully recognised until the first of her eleven films (Wer nimmt die Liebe ernst...? (1931)) under the direction of Erich Engel, who henceforth became her mentor. Jenny's forte was playing feisty, determined characters who tended to excel at oneupmanship. Her performance as Eliza Doolittle in Engel's adaptation of Pygmalion (1935) so enthused the author George Bernard Shaw that he offered her the opportunity to act in all of his plays on the stage in England.

Jenny remained in Germany, nonetheless, and made several more hugely popular films with Engel, including Mädchenjahre einer Königin (1936), as a young Queen Victoria; Die Nacht mit dem Kaiser (1936) (several years later marrying her co-star, the actor Friedrich Benfer) and the musical comedy Nanette (1940). Though flourishing briefly as one of Ufa's top box office attractions, her star declined as the Third Reich began to favour Germanic-looking blondes. Jenny made only a couple of films after the war before retiring to her farm in Schönrain in Upper Bavaria. She was eventually honoured by the prestigious Filmband in Gold in 1971 for her contributions to German cinema. Confined to a wheelchair for the last two decades of her life, Jenny Jugo died in September 2001 at the respectable age of 97.
BornJune 14, 1904
DiedSeptember 30, 2001(97)
BornJune 14, 1904
DiedSeptember 30, 2001(97)
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Jenny Jugo in Pikku vaimoni (1943)
Jenny Jugo in Der Bund der Drei (1929)
Jenny Jugo and Viktor Staal in Pikku vaimoni (1943)
Jenny Jugo in Wer nimmt die Liebe ernst...? (1931)
Friedrich Benfer and Jenny Jugo
Jenny Jugo
Jenny Jugo and Werner Krauss in Kuoleman silmukka (1928)
Jenny Jugo and Werner Krauss in Kuoleman silmukka (1928)

Known for:

Nanette (1940)
Nanette
5.6
  • Nanette Dürwaldt
  • 1940
Jenny Jugo in Pygmalion (1935)
Pygmalion
6.5
  • Elisa Doolittle
  • 1935
Jenny Jugo and Werner Krauss in Kuoleman silmukka (1928)
Kuoleman silmukka
7.2
  • Blanche Valette
  • 1928
Fünf von der Jazzband (1932)
Fünf von der Jazzband
7.1
  • Jessie
  • 1932

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  • Land der Sehnsucht
    • Reisebürosekretärin
    • 1950
  • Friedrich Schoenfelder and Peter van Eyck in Königskinder (1950)
    Königskinder
    7.0
    • Prinzessin Ulrike von Brandenburg
    • 1950
  • Älä uneksi, Annette (1949)
    Älä uneksi, Annette
    • Annette
    • 1949
  • Pikku vaimoni (1943)
    Pikku vaimoni
    7.0
    • Puck Niklas
    • 1943
  • Viel Lärm um Nixi (1942)
    Viel Lärm um Nixi
    8.0
    • Nixi Barkas
    • 1942
  • Non mi sposo più
    • Nixi
    • 1942
  • Der Trichter Nr. 12
    Short
    • 1941
  • Rakkauden oppitunti (1940)
    Rakkauden oppitunti
    7.5
    • Dr. Elisabeth Hansen
    • 1940
  • Nanette (1940)
    Nanette
    5.6
    • Nanette Dürwaldt
    • 1940
  • Toivoton tapaus (1939)
    Toivoton tapaus
    7.2
    • Jenny
    • 1939
  • Die kleine und die große Liebe (1938)
    Die kleine und die große Liebe
    7.2
    • Erika Berghoff, Stewardeß
    • 1938
  • Gefährliches Spiel (1937)
    Gefährliches Spiel
    • Rosy von Wenden
    • 1937
  • Die Nacht mit dem Kaiser (1936)
    Die Nacht mit dem Kaiser
    • Lisa Grossinger
    • 1936
  • Heinz Rühmann, Jenny Jugo, Renate Müller, and Anton Walbrook in Allotria (1936)
    Allotria
    7.0
    • Gaby
    • 1936
  • Mädchenjahre einer Königin (1936)
    Mädchenjahre einer Königin
    7.8
    • Victoria
    • 1936

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  • Born
    • June 14, 1904
    • Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
  • Died
    • September 30, 2001
    • Schwaighofen, Bavaria, Germany(natural causes)
  • Spouses
      Friedrich Benfer1950 - 1957 (divorced)
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    • 1 Print Biography
    • 1 Pictorial
    • 3 Magazine Cover Photos

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    Jenny Jugo got a three-year contract from the Ufa in1924.

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