Emmy Wehlen
actress
- Birth name:
- Emily Wehlen
- Born:
- 1887, Mannheim, Germany
- Died:
- 1977
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
Mannheim, 1887: a future bright spot of silent cinema enters the world as Emmy Wehlen. Within a few whirlwind seasons she slips into the skin of schemers and dreamers, lighting up the screen in 1916’s The Pretenders, then twice more in 1917—first as the tantalizing Duchess of Doubt, next as the hunted heroine of The Trail of the Shadow. Audiences surrender; the camera adores her; the titles roll on. Ninety years after her birth, the curtain finally falls—1977—leaving only the flicker of nitrate memories where Wehlen once danced.
