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Hildegard Knef
  • Has smoked "in real life" (IRL) = Probably, unconfirmed
  • Quit = Probably has
  • Profession = actress
  • Her entry in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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  • Proof she has smoked (or quit) "in real life"
              •  quit - "smoked 40 to 60 cigarettes a day until recently...promised her doctor not to smoke any more", Berliner Zeitung (Germany), Jan. 11, '96
              •  smoked during live "NDR Talk Show" (North German Television) in 1980, repeated on "NDR Classic Talk Show", Aug. 7, '99
              •  quit - "I gave up smoking a year ago. I'm still suffering from it", Deutsches Allgemeines Sonntagsblatt (Germany), Aug. 20, '99
              •  quit - "Didn't you smoke heavily 3 years ago? 'I smoked all my life. But then I got inflammation of the lungs' ", Super Illu online (Germany), '00
              •  "I smoked heavily", German TV interview, Jan. 1, '02
              •  "suffered from lung disease which she herself attributed to decades of chain-smoking", Die Welt (Germany), Feb. 2, '02
              •  "she smoked like a chimney for as long as she could", Der Spiegel (Germany), Feb. 4, '02
              •  "in 1954, she played the lead in Cole Porter's Silk Stockings, a musical version of Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka. Her famously raunchy and erotically smoky timbre, kept in character by up to 60 cigarettes a day, led Ella Fitzgerald to call her 'the world's greatest singer without a voice' ", The Independent (UK), Feb. 4, '02
              •  "German doctors were among the first to spot a link between smoking and cancer, their findings stretching back to the Hitler period. 'I smoked all my life,' Miss Knef said. Sometimes 50 or perhaps 60 a day: she never counted. Her health-minded fans counted at least five films in which she was seductively smoking. She tried to appease them by giving up smoking, frequently, and, as she said with a wan smile, 'suffering for it'. In a second book about her life, 'The Verdict', she wrote of her fears about cancer. Probably smoking contributed to her death. She put up a long struggle against a lung infection", The Economist (UK), Feb. 7, '02
              •  "was a chain-smoker at times, maybe less tobacco would have extended her life", Westdeutsche Zeitung (Germany), Mar. 3, '02
              •  "[Diane Kruger:] I was really inspired by an actress called Hildegard Knef. I took a lot from her, but mostly her voice. She was very cool; she smoked two packs of cigarettes a day", The Guardian (UK), Aug. 15, '09
              •  "smoked 40 to 60 cigarettes a day", website, when?
              •  "Hildegard Knef enjoyed what life offered. She greatly enjoyed cigarettes and stopped smoking, which she always considered a struggle, only just before her death. And if the lung-problem had not existed, she would have continued smoking for ever. She smoked for enjoyment. Whether her seedy-smoky voice derived from her cigarette and whisky consumption is not recorded", website review, when?
  • Pictures from the net
             
  • Sünderin, Die (1951)
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  • dangling, record sleeve, 19k
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  • holding, record sleeve, 19k
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  • holding, 87k
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  • about to drag, 39k
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  • small, holding, 7k
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  • holding, '70s, 37k
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  • holding as she checks her make-up, Jun. 29, '57, 25k
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  • holder, London, Aug. 18, '53, 26k
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  • receiving a light, 81k
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  • holding, Jun. 12, '49, 28k
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  • holding, '67
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  • holding, London, '54, 31k
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  • holding, 15k
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  • holding, 73k
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  • posed, holding, '67
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  • holding, 17k
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  • holding, 46k
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  • holding, 21k
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  • dragging, Nov. 6, '62, 28k
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  • dragging, Berlin, '65, 26k
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  • posed, holder, 26k
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  • holding, 26k
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  • holding, smoke drifting, 13k
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  • holding, Hamburg, '60s
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  • holding, Hamburg, '60s
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  • holding, Hamburg, '60s
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  • holder
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  • posed, holder
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  • posed, holding
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  • lighting, Madeleine und der Legionär (1958)
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  • candid, holding, German Film Ball, Munich, '90
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  • holding, 46k
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  • holding, record cover, '50s, 24k
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  • holding, 523k

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