Marion Michael

Marion Michael (17 October 1940 – 13 October 2007) was a German film actress and singer. She was best known for her role in the 1956 film Liane, Jungle Goddess.^[1] She was also the second German actress to appear nude on film, after Hildegard Knef who starred in the German film The Sinner in the 1950s.^[1]

Michael was born Marion Ilonka Michaela Delonge in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad).^[1] She was selected for the role of Liane in Liane, Jungle Goddess out of 12,000 prospective actresses.^[1] She was only 15 at the time of the filming, which took place on location in Africa, and she controversially appeared topless during the first half of the movie.^[1] The movie was a box office success. However, none of her following 10 films over the next six years were as successful.^[1]

Michael suffered injuries in a car accident during this time period.^[1] She returned to acting, but stopped again in 1965.^[1] She suffered a bout of depression and, unusually, moved from West Germany to Communist East Germany.^[1]

Michael occasionally returned to film and television acting later in her life, but only rarely. However, despite her lack of screen time after the 1960s, she remained a well known German film icon.^[1] Her last onscreen appearance was in a 1996 German television musical about her life, entitled Liane [de].^[1]

Michael died of heart failure in Gartz, Brandenburg, four days shy of her 67th birthday.^[1]

• Liane, Jungle Goddess (1956)
• Nature Girl and the Slaver [de] (1957)
• The Mad Bomberg (1957)
• Bombs on Monte Carlo (1960)
• Final Accord (1960)
• Davon träumen alle Mädchen [de] (1961)
• Jack and Jenny (1963)

• Marion Michael at IMDb

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