Betty Amann

Betty Amann was an actress whose early stage work at the May Palace Theater led to her screen debut in The Kick-Off (1926), billed as Bee Amann. Seven Mack Sennett short comedies followed, among them The Campus Vamp (1928). Her first leading part was a western, Trail of the Horse Thieves (1929). Having gone to Germany in 1928, she was cast by Erich Pommer and Joe May as the female star of Asphalt (1929), and Pommer gave her the name Betty. She stayed in Germany for The Convict from Istanbul (1929), The Great Longing (1930), her first talking picture, and Hans in Every Street (1930), and in 1931 she worked in England on Alfred Hitchcock's Rich and Strange (1931). Her last screen role was in Edgar G. Ulmer's Isle of Forgotten Sins (1943), and in 1987 she was honored with Germany's Filmband in Gold award. She died in 1990.