Elfie Mayerhofer

Elfie Mayerhofer
Born	15 March 1917 Maribor, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	28 December 1992 (aged 75) Maria Enzersdorf, Austria
Occupation(s)	Actress singer
Years active	1938–1968 (film)

Elfie Mayerhofer (1917–1992) was an Austrian film actress and singer. A noted stage performer, she played lead roles in a series of musical and operetta films such as The Song of the Nightingale (1944)^[1] and The Heavenly Waltz (1949).^[2] She was known as the "Viennese Nightingale".

Selected filmography

• Women for Golden Hill (1938)
• The Curtain Falls (1939)
• Hotel Sacher (1939)
• My Wife Theresa (1942)
• A Man With Principles? (1943)
• Music in Salzburg (1944)
• The Song of the Nightingale (1944)
• Viennese Melodies (1947)
• Anni (1948)
• The Court Concert (1948)
• The Heavenly Waltz (1948)
• Beloved Liar (1950)
• Kissing Is No Sin (1950)
• Vanished Melody (1952)
• Madame Pompadour (1960)

References

1. Goble p.20
2. Fritsche p.179

External links

• Elfie Mayerhofer at IMDb

Bibliography

• Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.
• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.