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Ingoushka Petrov / Ingrid Pitt dies (Polish-born actress)


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Joined: Nov 23, 06 ♂ 		 Nov 26, 10, 12:24    #1
Countess Dracula and Where Eagles Dare (and a minor role in Dr Zhivago). Collapsed on stage in London this week. Just shows you shouldn't push it.

German father, Jewish mother.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obi tuaries/8158061/Ingrid-Pitt.html

She was born Ingoushka Petrov on November 21 1937 in Poland, interrupting attempts by her father, a Prussian engineer, and Polish-Jewish mother to escape from Nazi Germany to Britain. Her parents were on a train to leave the country when Ingrid Pitt's mother went into labour, forcing them to get off and seek medical help. Unable to escape afterwards, they were eventually rounded up by the Germans in 1943, when Ingrid and her mother were separated from her father and interned at the Stutthof concentration camp.
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Joined: Nov 27, 07 ♂ 		 Nov 26, 10, 15:52    #3
A great actress, sadly missed. On the night of her debut at the Berliner Ensemble, she missed her curtain call to go on stage, and slipped out of the back door in full costume and make-up and swam across the river to West Berlin.

Her books are good too.
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Wroclaw:
separated from her father and interned at the Stutthof concentration camp.

Oh the agony they must've suffered.

My grand father's brother was taken ... he was not Jew but a Slav. Deceived by his friend (a German) ... and taken by those hounds of WW2.

God bless those brave Polish souls ... those brave souls of everyone in the world ... who stood against that dispicable being.
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Lodz_The_Boat:
God bless those brave Polish souls ... those brave souls of everyone in the world ... who stood against that dispicable being.

And God bless those ordinary souls who could do absolutely nothing about it.

What's not very well known about Ingrid Pitt, is that she wrote the song 'Kinky Boots'!!
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Joined: Jun 7, 07 ♂ 		 Nov 26, 10, 19:06    #6
A sad loss....lovely woman , i must confess to being a fan of the old hammer horror stuff , this lady was a star of it...
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Joined: Nov 27, 07 ♂ 		 Nov 26, 10, 21:47    #7
Just for fun. If you listen to the words and remember her history, well, wow.


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