Lot 200 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE ACTRESS EMMY WEHLEN (1887-1977)

AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY GOLD FRAME, BY TIFFANY & CO.

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AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY GOLD FRAME, BY TIFFANY & CO.
The polished gold frame of rectangular outline, the reverse as a panel of wood with gold easel, 1920s, 143x107x10 mm
Signed Tiffany & Co., no. 18725 4787

Emily “Emmy” Wehlen, was born and raised in Mannheim, Germany. She was a keen singer and dancer and attended the Mannheimer Conservatory. Her talent was soon internationally recognized and, from 1909 onwards, she became a celebrated operetta star in London, after her roles in "The Merry Widow" and "The Dollar Princess". In the following years her success took her across the Atlantic, where she began performing on Broadway.
A 1911 article in Everybody’s Magazine, an American glossy published from 1899 to 1929, commented that Wehlen was “very pretty, very graceful, extraordinarily clever as an actress, and she has learned how to use a naturally fine voice. Moreover, she has the indescribable charm of personality, of making audiences like her and want to have her on the stage all the time”
Besides theater Emmy got more and more involved with cinema. In 1915 she signed with the motion picture company Metro Pictures Cooperation, a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She mainly performed as a silent movie actress, often in leading roles, until the early 1920s. She featured in many films, including When a Woman Loves (1915), Miss Robinson Crusoe (1917) and Fools and Their Money (1919). Her last movie was Lifting Shadows (1920) after which Emmy decided that she wished to focused on her career as an opera singer. Unfortauntely, very little is known about the subsequent part of her life, she retired from the public eye in the 1930s. Emmy never had children and bequeathed her estate and jewels to members of her family and close friends.

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