Trivia

When her husband was arrested she was expelled from the country. What happened to Hilde Jennings afterwards is unknown.

N the last years of the silent movie era - before the sound film produced a technical and artistic revolution - she took part in "Moral" (1928).

The actress Hilde Jennings got ballet lesson as a young girl and in later years she joined a Russian ballet group. It followed tours through Europe and North Africa. Finally she was engaged at the Staatsoper Berlin.

With her only German sound film "Sei gegrüsst, du mein schönes Sorrent" (30) she left Germany and went to the Sovjet Union together with her husband and director Mikhail Dubson. There she took part in two more movies - "Vesenniye dni" (1934) und "Bolshie krylya" (1937).

According to a Russian wikipedia entry, Hilde Jenniungs was arrested by the NKVD on 25 June 1941 on charges of espionage. She was subsequently deported to Kazakhstan. Following her release in 1955,, she spent her remaining years in Karakol (Kyrgyzstan) where she died in the late 1970's.