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German actress Marieluise Claudius leans back in a chair in the Chancellery during an artists reception in Berlin, 1940. A prolific film actress during the 1930s, she died of heart failure in 1941, at age 29.

In this photo: Marieluise Claudius

Photo: Hugo Jaeger./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Jan 01, 1940
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