PAULA WESSELY – “WHY WOULD YOU LIKE ME?”
The first Austrian actress to win – in 1935 – the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival, after a successful theatre career, the previous year Paula Wessely – in the role of the shy and brave Leopoldine Dur in Willi Forst’s Maskerade – had also finally won over film audiences in Venice. Thanks to her innate talent for acting. Thanks, perhaps, also to that particular hairstyle with a side parting that was soon to become fashionable. But thanks also – probably – to that sentence – “Why would you like me?” – which seemed so pertinent to the situation.