Elfie Mayerhofer

Austrian actress and singer

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

^ Goble p.20
^ 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.