Lotte Palfi Andor

Lotte Palif Andor passed away on July 8, 1991, less than three weeks away from what would have been her 88th birthday on July 28.

Mid-1980s, she published her memoirs under the title "Memoirs of an unknown actress," was published in an anthology under the title "The strange year" (in the United States Years of Estrangement ) and went with it at a reading in Berlin on .

In 1976 John Schlesinger hired Lotte Palfi-Andor, who had not worked for the film since 1952, for a small but impressive role in his thriller The Marathon Man with Dustin Hoffman . As a victim of the Holocaust , she recognizes her Tormentor, the concentration camp doctor Szell ( Laurence Olivier ), and chases him screaming through 47th Street in New York City.

In 1943 Palfi married actor, and German refugee, Wolfgang Zilzer, who had just changed his name to Paul Andor. They had appeared in a number of movies together and had fallen in love during the filming of Casablanca. She appeared in movie credits now as Lotte Palfi-Andor.

Her most memorable roles were in Casablanca (1942), where she was "the woman who has to sell her diamonds" in order to escape the Nazis and in Marathon Man (1976), where she was "the woman on 47th street," chasing a Nazi who is trying to escape with robbed diamonds.

Appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Blossoms in the Dust (1941), Casablanca (1942) and All That Jazz (1979). Of those, Casablanca (1942) is a winner in the category.

Palfi received small, usually uncredited roles, in a number of movies in 1940 and 41.

Under the stage name "Jean Brooks", the actress made her Hollywood debut in 1939 in a small role in Anatole Litvak's anti-Nazi film I Was a Nazi Spy .

Was an aspiring Jewish stage actress in Germany and had to flee in 1934 with her first husband, the cutter (film editor) Victor Palfi, after the Nazis came to power. She played only bit parts in Hollywood, many of them uncredited.