Some More Lily Flohr

The previous post on Lily Flohr’s cabaret in Shanghai in 1941 and how she had been a theatre and silent movie star in Germany before apparently coming to Shanghai interested me. IMDB has a complete list of her movies but not many details on any of them. Even if you can read German (and I can’t much) there doesn’t seem to be a great deal around about her though she pops up on a recording of old Jewish songs from the 1920s to 1950s (here). Seems she was born in 1903 and after her film career suffered from the Nazis and got out of Europe in 1935 to Shanghai. I can’t find any record of her after 1941 when she was singing at the Elite Bar in Shanghai.

If anyone knows anything else do please let me know.

A few more photos of her popped up after a casual Google image search – a couple of official studio portraits that were signed collectors cars (above and immediately below) and a still featuring Lilly in the German film Das Mädchen aus der Ackerstraße from 1921 where Lilly played the Mädchen