Trivia

Daughter of a film pioneer, founder of the Decla-Bioscop production company.

Born Appolonia Heuser and educated at an English convent school in Wiesbaden.

On the stage from 1929, Heuser started out as a chorine and later soubrette on the operatic stages of Breslau and Hamburg. She made her name in early 1930's Berlin at the Scala and Wintergarten as a chansonnette, cabaret and revue artiste. Regularly cast in post-war German films as quirky, sharp-tongued comedy relief, often aunts, mothers-in-law or friends of the heroine.