- In the early time of the talkies she appeared in her last movies.
- Upon the rise of the Nazis in 1933, Boothby left Berlin and settled in France.
- As a young adult writer, Valerie Boothby published stories like The Cat Captain: A Fantastic Tale and Growl and His Gang, or: Dogs Take Over a Town in the 1950s.
- She lived in Cairo, Egypt for 15 years before returning to Hamburg in 1970, where she died on 14 April 1982.
- She was the oldest of three daughters and was of German-Jewish ancestry.
- She was a German actress, painter, and author.
- At the beginning of her career she also used the pseudonym Vala de Lys.
- She made her film debut in 1926 in The Clever Fox, directed by Conrad Wiene, and went on to appear in 22 more films, mainly typecast as a vamp, before retiring in 1931.
- Valerie Boothby was born Wally Drucker on 18 October 1904 in Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg, in what was then the German Empire, although some sources list her birth year as 1906.
- Her father was Ernst Drucker (1856-1918), an actor and theater owner.
- In "Die Film-Illustrierte" (issue 38, Berlin September 21, 1928) it is stated that Valerie Boothby got married at the age of 16 and has recently (about 1928) been divorced again.
- She made a name as a portrait painter - in addition to pictures of personalities from Egyptian society - , she painted also the "sea devil" Count Luckner, Albert Schweitzer and Theodor Heuss.
- She was married to a noble Italian lawyer. Her name was then Contessa Valerie Boothby-Colonna.
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