Valerie Boothby

Valerie Boothby
Born	Wally Drucker 18 October 1904 Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg, German Empire
Died	14 April 1982 (aged 77) Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg, Germany
Resting place	Neuer Friedhof Harburg, Harburg, Hamburg, Germany
Years active	1926-1931

Valerie Boothby (born Wally Drucker; 18 October 1904 - 14 April 1982) was a German actress and painter.

Biography

Valerie Boothby was born Wally Drucker on 18 October 1904 in Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg, in what was then the German Empire, although some sources list her birth year as 1906. Her father was Ernst Drucker (1855-1918), an actor and theater owner. She was the oldest of three daughters.

She made her film debut in 1926 in The Clever Fox, directed by Conrad Wiene, and went on to appear in 22 more films before retiring in 1931.

Boothby opposed the Nazis, and in 1933, left Berlin and settled in France. She also lived in Egypt before returning to Hamburg in 1970, where she died on 14 April 1982. She is buried at Neuer Friedhof Harburg in Harburg, Hamburg, Germany. She was married to an Italian lawyer.

Selected filmography

• The Clever Fox (1926)
• The Woman with the World Record (1927)
• Because I Love You (1928)
• Life's Circus (1928)
• Adam and Eve (1928)
• Angst (1928)
• Das letzte Souper (1928)
• The Monte Cristo of Prague (1929)
• Women on the Edge (1929)
• Crucified Girl (1929)
• Death Drive for the World Record (1929)
• Hunting You (1929)
• Inherited Passions (1929)
• The Man Without Love (1929)
• Namensheirat (1930)
• Him or Me (1930)
• Marriage in Name Only (1930)
• Der Herr Finanzdirektor (1931)
• Johann Strauss (1931)

External links

• Valerie Boothby at IMDb