Gusti Huber

Auguste "Gusti" Huber (July 27, 1914 – July 12, 1993) was an Austrian-American actress. She had a successful career on Broadway and was critically acclaimed as Edith Frank in the 1956 production of The Diary of Anne Frank. Early life and career Huber was born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, in 1914. She received training as an actress from :de:Rudolph Beer, who later arranged her stage debut in Zurich. She had her first film role in 1935 in Tanzmusik, followed by Savoy-Hotel 217 (1936). One year later she achieved her career breakthrough in the film adaptation of Unentschuldigte Stunde. Her better-known films include (1937), Land of Love (1937), Kleiner Mann – ganz gross! (1938), Eine Frau für Drei (1939), and Jenny und der Herr im Frack (1941), after which she worked for four years at the Viennese Burgtheater and elsewhere onstage. After the end of World War II, Huber moved to the United States. She acted only occasionally thereafter, most notably appearing on Broadway three times, in Flight into Egypt, as Margot Wendice in Dial M for Murder and a performance The Diary of Anne Frank. Links to Nazism Around 1946, Huber moved to the United States with her second husband, Joseph Besch, an officer in the U.S. Army. Besch boasted that his wife was "the first Austrian actress to be cleared by the American military government".