de Quatre in London, but she declined. In the same year, having amassed a fortune, she retired from the stage and settled near Hamburg. A few years later her sister Theresa contracted a morganatic marriage with Prince Adalbert of Prussia, and was ennobled under the title of Baroness von Barnim. Theresa was left a widow in 1873, and died on 19 November 1878. Fanny Elssler died in Vienna on 27 November 1884. She was played by Lilian Harvey in the 1937 German film Fanny Elssler. Lya Mara had previously played her in the 1920 silent film Fanny Elssler. See also List of dancers Women in dance References Notes Sources Au, Susan, Ballet and Modern Dance, Third Edition, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London (2012) Ivor Forbes Guest, Fanny Elssler (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut, 1970) Further reading Allison Delarue, Fanny Elssler in America: Comprising Seven Facsimilies of Rare Americana. New York: Dance Horizons, 1976. Ivor Guest, Fanny Elssler. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1970) Ann Hutchinson, Fanny Elssler's Cachucha, Dance Books (2008) External links Ladies of the Rose: Fanny Elssler, by Louisa Young 19th-century Austrian ballet dancers Austrian ballerinas Prima ballerinas People from Mariahilf 1810 births 1884 deaths Elssler Dancers from Vienna