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Renate Muller
"The Claudette Colbert of Germany," this bubbly actress starred in a number of comedies and musicals in the early days of Nazism. The Bavarian-born daughter of a painter and a newspaper editor, Muller was trained at Max Reinhardt's Academy of Dramatic Arts, and by 1925 was appearing on the Berlin stage. Perky and elfin, Muller was signed to a film contract in 1928, before talkies had become a reality in Germany.