Jewish, evaded the Nazis by fleeing to Britain in 1933. The family permanently moved to the U.S. in July 1937, settling in Los Angeles, where Sonja died on 20 August 1974. She was interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Selected filmography The Other I (1918) The Venus (1922) Confessions of a Monk (1922) Ssanin (1924) Mary Stuart (1927) Forbidden Love (1927) Mata Hari (1927) Die Geliebte des Gouverneurs (1927) The Red Dance (1928) Hotel of Secrets (1929) Když struny lkají (1930) Haunted People (1932) The Robber Symphony (1936) Bibliography Brinson, Charmian & Dove, Richard Dove & Taylor, Jennifer. Immortal Austria?: Austrians in Exile in Britain. Rodopi, 2007. Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa story: a history of Germany's greatest film company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999. References External links 1886 births 1974 deaths 20th-century Austrian actresses Austrian film actresses Austrian silent film actresses Austrian stage actresses People from Prague-West District Austrian expatriates in the United States