Kaaren Verne

Kaaren Verne
File:Kaaren Verne 1942.jpg Verne in 1942
Born	Ingeborg Greta Katerina Marie-Rose Klinckerfuss (1918-04-06)6 April 1918 Berlin, German Empire
Died	Hollywood, California, U.S.
Cause of death	heart ailment
Resting place	Calvary Cemetery, St Paul, Minnesota
Other names	Karen Verne Catherine Young
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1940–1966
Spouse(s)	Arthur Young (1936-1945) (divorced) Peter Lorre (1945-1950) (divorced) James Powers (1951-1967) (her death)
Children	Alastair Young (b. 1937) Catharine Lorre Baker (1953-1985) (adopted)

Kaaren Verne (6 April 1918 – 23 December 1967), was a German-born actress. Sometimes billed as Karen Verne, she was originally a stage actress and member of the Berlin State Theatre.

Life and career

Verne was born in Berlin and christened Ingeborg Greta Katerina Marie-Rose Klinckerfuss, Related to the Bechstein family, her first marriage took place when she was 17.

She fled the Nazis in 1938 and made her English language film debut in the 1939 British film Ten Days in Paris. When British film production stopped during World War II, she emigrated to the United States.

At first, the studios tried to downplay her German heritage by briefly changing her professional name to Catherine Young, but after America's entry into World War II, the publicity value of a Teutonic actress who had turned her back on Nazism was too good to avoid.

Verne was married three times, to:

• Musician Arthur Young (30 August 1936 - May 1945; divorced); 1 son, Alastair, living in South West England (born 8 April 1937)
• Actor Peter Lorre (25 May 1945 - 1950; divorced)
• Film historian James Powers (1951 - 23 December 1967; her death)

Verne and James Powers adopted Peter Lorre's daughter Catharine following his death in 1964.

Verne remained in films until her death, appearing in such films as Ship of Fools (1965) and Torn Curtain (1966). She died at age 49 and was buried in Calvary Cemetery, St Paul, Minnesota.

Filmography

Films

• Ten Days in Paris (1940)
• Sky Murder (1940)
• The Wild Man of Borneo (1941)
• Underground (1941)
• All Through the Night (1941)
• Kings Row (1942)
• The Great Impersonation (1942)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)
• The Seventh Cross (1944)
• The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
• The Story of Three Loves (1953)
• The Juggler (1953)
• Fireside Theatre (1954)
• A Bullet for Joey (1955)
• Outside the Law (1956)
• Ship of Fools (1965)
• Madame X (1966)

Television

• Crusader (1 episode, 1956)
• The Gale Storm Show (1 episode, 1956)
• General Electric Theater (1 episode, 1958)
• Bronco (1 episode, 1959)
• Michael Shayne (1 episode, 1960)
• The Twilight Zone (1 episode, 1961)
• The Untouchables (1 episode, 1961)
• Kraft Suspense Theatre (1 episode, 1965)
• The Duel at Mont Saint Marie (1966) TV episode
• 12 O'Clock High (1 episode, 1966)

See also

• Biography portal

References

Notes

External links

• Kaaren Verne at the Internet Movie Database
• Kaaren Verne at Find a Grave