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Cornell Borchers
1925Mar, 16

Cornell Borchers

Cornell Borchers, Lithuanian-German actress and singer (d. 2014)
Gerlind Cornell Borchers (16 March 1925 – 12 May 2014) was a German actress and singer, active in the late 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for her roles opposite Montgomery Clift in The Big Lift (1950) and Errol Flynn and Nat King Cole in Istanbul (1957). She was said to resemble Ingrid Bergman in mid-1950s reviews.

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