She was one of the few women to portray a scientist, and the only one to play a "mad" scientist, in what has been called "The Golden Age of Cinema", although at the tail end of it, when she played Dr. Sandra Mornay, who worked with the evil Count Dracula, in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).
Forced to leave Austria when the Nazis took over because her husband was Jewish, she fled to Paris, where for a time she was a model.
Her father was a general in the Austro-Hungarian army.
Although her name and somewhat unidentifiable accent has led many to believe that she's French, "Lenore Aubert" is actually a stage name; her real name is Eleanore Leisner, and she was born in what is now Slovenia.
Was discovered by a talent scout while performing in a Los Angeles
community theatre production
In the 1960s was active in the United Nations Activity and Housing
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