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- Birth nameMeta Reif
- Susi Lanner was born on August 27, 1911 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for Das Schönheitsfleckchen (1936), Artisten (1935) and The Last Waltz (1934). She died on March 16, 2006 in Dobbs Ferry, New York, USA.
- Fresh-faced, brunette Viennese singer, dancer and actress of 1930's operettas, musical comedies and romances. Appearing opposite major stars like Heinz Rühmann, Harry Piel and Hans Moser, she often played the 'other woman' or emancipated tomboyish secretaries and travel agents. Lanner eventually married an American industrialist, Roy Frazier Potts, and left Austria before the Anschluß to settle in the United States.
- Born Mechthilde Reif in Vienna, after schooling in drama, dance, and singing, Lanner appeared as a singer and dancer in operettas and revues in her native Vienna.
- She also played in musicals such as Der letzte Walzer (The Last Waltz Dancer) with Camilla Horn.
- After that she got married with an American industrialist and retired from the film business. She went to the USA in 1938 and hadn't to experience the horror of the wartime in Europe vividly.
- In her short film career she played lead roles opposite Harry Piel in the impressionistic Artisten (Artists), opposite Hans Söhnker in the drama Herbstmanöver (Autumn Maneuvers), and in Hans Deppe's comedy Meiseken as well as opposite Erik Ode in the comedy Der kühne Schwimmer (The Daring Swimmer), opposite the silent-film star Pola Negri in Paul Wegener's drama Der Weg nach Shanghai (The Road to Shanghai) and opposite Heinz Rühmann in Robert A. Stemmle's comedy Heinz im Mond (Heinz-in-the-Moon).
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