Loo Hardy
{{Short description|German actress (1898–1938)}}
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{{Infobox person
| image = Loo Hardy by Mac Walten.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Hardy {{circa}} 1918
| name = Loo Hardy
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1898|01|11|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Berlin, German Empire
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1938|04|23|1898|01|11|df=yes}}
| death_place = London, United Kingdom
| birth_name = Charlotte Noa
| othername = Charlotte Hardy
| occupation = Film actress
| yearsactive = 1918 - 1931
| relatives = Manfred Noa (brother)
}}
Charlotte "Loo" Hardy (born Charlotte Noa; 11 January 1898 – 23 April 1938) was a German film actress of the silent era.Weniger p.232 She later emigrated to England, where she died by suicide from a narcotic overdose.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1260711/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm|title=Loo Hardy|website=IMDb}}
Death
Noa's body was found in her flat in Cleveland Square, Paddington. An inquest was held on 26 April 1938, during which she was referred to as Mrs. Charlotte Levi. The Coroner found that she was overdrawn at the bank, behind on payments of rent, had received a final demand for income tax, and that tradesmen were refusing to supply goods unless for cash; and that she had killed herself by narcotic poisoning.Daria Santini, The Exiles: Actors, Artists and Writers Who Fled the Nazis for London (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019), [https://books.google.com/books?id=fRAYEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA73 p. 73]
Selected filmography
- The Clan (1920)
- Catherine the Great (1920)
- Wibbel the Tailor (1920)
- Berlin W. (1920)
- The Voice (1920)
- Jim Cowrey is Dead (1921)
- Raid (1921)
- The Story of a Maid (1921)
- Miss Beryll (1921)
- Yellow Star (1922)
- The Enchantress (1924)
- The Old Ballroom (1925)
- The Eighteen Year Old (1927)
- Road to Rio (1931)
References
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Bibliography
- Weniger, Kay. 'Es wird im Leben dir mehr genommen als gegeben ...' Lexikon der aus Deutschland und Österreich emigrierten Filmschaffenden 1933 bis 1945. ACABUS Verlag, 2011.
External links
- {{IMDb name|1260711}}
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Category:German silent film actresses
Category:Actresses from Berlin
Category:German film actresses
Category:German emigrants to England
Category:20th-century German actresses
Category:Suicides in Westminster
Category:Drug-related suicides in England
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