Loni Nest

Loni Nest
Born	Eleonore Nest (1915-08-04)August 4, 1915 Berlin, Germany
Died	October 2, 1990(1990-10-02) (aged 75) Nice, France
Cause of death	advanced age
Years active	1918 – 1933

Loni Nest (born Eleonore Nest; August 4, 1915 - October 2, 1990^[1]) was a German actress.

Early life

She was born in Berlin to American parents. At the early age of four weeks, she was first featured in a movie.^[1] She used the name Loni Nest instead of Eleonore Nest. Between 1918 and 1933, she starred in 41 movies, opposite such actors as Charles Boyer, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Fritz Feld.

Disppearance

After more than 40 movies, she ended her movie career in 1928 at the early age of 13. In 1933 she played in one last movie in France.^[1]

Her whereabouts after 1933 remained unknown for several decades.^[1]

Death

She died at the age of 75 on October 2, 1990 in the French town Nice.^[1]

Hoax

In 2014, the website "Forever missed" published an obituary that ostensibly revealed that Nest had died on Hawaii in 2014 at the old age of 98. It also described details of Nest's life after she left Germany and moved to America. Various websites including the Internet Movie Database quickly adopted this information. However it was soon discovered, that both the time and location of her death as well as the details about her later life were completely made up.

According to the German newspaper Die Welt, German film historian Toni Schieck had discovered years before that Nest's sister Ursula had moved to the USA and died in Florida in 2007. Through her family, Schieck discovered that Nest had married and taken the last name Arnault. She moved to France where she died at the age of 75 in Nice.^[1]

Filmography

1918: Dida Ibsens Geschichte 1919: Die Ehe der Frau Mary 1919: Opium 1919: Harakiri 1920: Kämpfende Gewalten oder Welt ohne Krieg 1920: Der Reigen – Ein Werdegang 1920: Patience 1920: Johannes Goth 1920: Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam 1920: Die Schuld der Lavinia Morland 1920: Das wandernde Bild Man Overboard (1921) 1921: Ein Erpressertrick 1921: Schloß Vogelöd Violet (1921) 1921: Die Minderjährige – Zu jung fürs Leben 1921: Pariserinnen 1921: Der Sträfling von Cayenne 1921: The Pearl of the Orient 1921: Sturmflut des Lebens 1922: Versunkene Welten

1922: Tabea, stehe auf! 1922: Sterbende Völker (2 parts) 1922: Aus den Erinnerungen eines Frauenarztes (2 parts) 1923: Quarantäne 1923: Tragödie der Liebe 1923: Fräulein Raffke The Little Napoleon (1923) 1923: Schwarze Erde 1924: Zwei Kinder 1924: Mutter und Kind 1924: Der Evangelimann 1925: Liebesfeuer 1925: Die Prinzessin und der Geiger 1925: Die freudlose Gasse 1925: Aus der Jugendzeit klingt ein Lied The Saint and Her Fool (1928) 1928: Die Geschichte einer kleinen Pariserin (La storia di una piccola Parigina) 1933: L'Épervier

References

1. Hanns-Georg Rodek (11 April 2014). "Der gefälschte Tod eines echten Stummfilmstars". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 11 April 2014.

Other websites

• Loni Nest on IMDb