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Gisela Werbezirk (also spelled Werbisek, 8 April 1875 – 15 April 1956) was an Austrian-Hungarian actress. For most of her career, she performed across theaters in Europe, notably in Vienna and Berlin, and at one time was compared to stage actress Marie Dressler.
Gisela Werbezirk, auch Gisela Werbisek oder Giselle Werbisek (* 8. April 1875 in Pressburg, Österreich-Ungarn, heute Bratislava, Slowakei; † 10. April 1956 in Hollywood, Kalifornien, Vereinigte Staaten ), war eine österreichische Theater-, Stumm- und Tonfilm schauspielerin .
Gisela Werbezirk was born in Bratislava, Slovakia, then Pressburg or Pozsony in Hungarian. She began her stage carrier in Pressburg. From there she went to Vienna, Berlin and numerous other German cities,. Some of the plays in which she acted were directed by the famous Max Reinhardt.
Gisela Werbezirk, * 8. April 1875 Preßburg (Bratislava, Slowakei), † 10. April 1956 Hollywood, Schauspielerin. Biografie. Gisela Werbezirks Vater Ignaz war Sekretär am Stadttheater in Preßburg. 1902 stand sie zum ersten Mal auf der Bühne und zwar als Chorsängerin in Troppau. 1905 debütierte sie als Schauspielerin in ihrer Geburtsstadt.
A Viennese superstar of stage and screen for several decades before 1938, Gisela Werbezirk was an unattractive woman with an extraordinary stage presence and inborn sense of dramatic timing. Born in 1875 into a Jewish family in Bratislava (then called Pressburg or Pozsonyi), she moved to nearby Vienna to try her luck on the stage.
“Actress Gisela Werbezirk Arrives In America” announced the Forverts in a 1938 headline, with a photo of the cherubic face of the Viennese comic film and musical theater star.
Stage and screen actress. Born in the former Austro-Hungarian Pressburg, she began her career in 1902 as a singer; her first film was in 1912. She fled Germany in 1938 for Yugoslavia with her husband, afterwards moving to the United States. The last of some forty feature films she appeared in was Bride of the Gorilla...
