Cornell Borchers
Biography
Cornell Borchers was a Lithuanian-German actress and singer born on March 16, 1925, who gained international recognition for her roles in The Big Lift (1950) opposite Montgomery Clift and Istanbul (1957) alongside Errol Flynn and Nat King Cole. She won a BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Actress in 1955 for The Divided Heart. Borchers retired from acting at age 34 to raise her daughter, Julia, before passing away in Bavaria, Germany in 2014.