 In the same year he began his film career starring in the romance "You and I" directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner, side by side with the popular German actress Brigitte Horney.While World War II began with the German Invasion of Poland in 1939, Gottschalk and Horney appeared as a "dream couple" in a string of successful movies.Gottschalk took his Jewish wife to a social function and introduced her to some of the prominent Nazis who were present.