- Born
- Died
- Birth nameEleonora Hermina Gregor
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Nora Gregor was an operetta diva, stage and film actress. She made her debut in Graz, Austria, and from there went to the Volksbühne an das Raimund-Theater in Vienna. She also worked at the Reinhardt Bühne in Berlin. From 1930 to 1933 she lived in Hollywood and also in Berlin. She made her first silent movie in 1921 and her first talkie in 1930 (Olympia (1930)). In 1937 she worked at the Burgtheater in Vienna and emigrated to Switzerland, France and Chile, where she died in Vina del Mar.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Rudi Polt / rudipolt@aol.com
- SpousesPrince Ernst Ruediger von Starhemberg(December 2, 1937 - January 20, 1949) (her death, 1 child)Mitja Nikisch(192? - 193?) (divorced)
- Children
- Reportedly depressed since the beginning of her South American exile, Gregor committed suicide in Viña del Mar, Chile.
- She went back to Europe and worked in Germany and Austria before she had to flee from Europe in 1938 together with her husband Ernst Rüdiger Fürst Starhemberg.
- Nora Gregor found herself in the USA when sound films replaced the silent cinema and she appeared in MGM's German language versions of The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929), under the direction of Jacques Feyder in Olympia (1930), the German language version of His Glorious Night (1929), and with Buster Keaton in Wir schalten um auf Hollywood (1931). the German language version of Free and Easy (1930). With a difficult to understand Austrian accent, a few too many pounds that were impossible to hide, and no longer on the sunny side of 30, she failed to click in her singular English language feature at MGM, But the Flesh is Weak (1932) and returned to Europe.
- Her first husband was Mitja Nikisch, a pianist and son of celebrated orchestral conductor Arthur Nikisch. They divorced circa 1934.
- In the mid 1930s Gregor became the mistress of the married vice chancellor of Austria, the Austro-fascist, nationalist politician Prince Ernst Ruediger von Starhemberg, with whom she had a son, Heinrich (1934-1997). On 2 December 1937, five days after the prince's marriage to his first wife, the former Countess Marie-Elisabeth von Salm-Reifferscheidt-Raitz, was annulled, he and Gregor wed in Vienna.
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