Рут Ландшорфф

Ruth Landshoff-Yorck was a German-American actress and writer. She was born in 1909 in Berlin as Ruth Levy, later Ruth Landshoff, to engineer Edward Levy and opera singer Else Landshoff. She came from a middle class Jewish family and grew up in Berlin. Her uncle was the publisher Samuel Fischer. She was given the name Ruth Yorck von Wartenburg after marrying Count David Yorck von Wartenburg in 1930. They divorced in 1937.