Grit Hegesa (31 December 1891 – 17 January 1972) was a German dancer and silent film actress. She appeared in seventeen films. She was born Caroline Margaretha Schmidt.
Selected filmography Madness (1919) Whitechapel (1920) The White Peacock (1920) Man Overboard (1921) Night and No Morning (1921) Children of Darkness (1921) Fräulein Else (1929)
References
Bibliography Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. (Section "Grit Hegesa" online) Hans Joachim Bodenbach, "Grit Hegesa, Tänzerin und Stummfilmstar aus Niederlahnstein", In: Rhein-Lahn-Kreis Heimatjahrbuch 2002, Bad Ems, pp. 147–153
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