Elfriede Borodin

Biography

Born in Berlin, she began her artistic career at the age of 18 at the Deutsches Künstlertheater. Later Borodin also appeared at the Schillertheater and the Preußische Staatstheatern. Even in silent film times, the actress appeared in front of the camera and played supporting roles in productions of Fred Sauer and Louis Ralph. After a series of early sound films, including E. A. Dupont's Atlantik, an early, ambitious disaster film, the seizure of power by the National Socialists abruptly ended her career in Berlin. Elfriede Borodin then moved to the Sudetenland and continued her stage work at the Stadttheater of Aussig. When this region was annexed by the Nazis in 1938, Elfriede Borodin fled to the United States.There, in the early stages of World War II, Elfriede Borodin was entrusted with tiny supporting roles in several Hollywood films in which she could be seen alongside stars such as Boris Karloff , Bela Lugosi, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford and John Wayne . Soon after, she married The American citizen Realestate Baron Jack T. Silver and retired with him as Elfriede Silver to Arizona in private life.