She came to the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1916 and from 1917 received leading roles in films with Deutsche Bioscop, later also with other production companies.
After six years she ended her intensive film work and devoted herself entirely to the theatre.
As a freelance actress, she appeared at the Deutsches Künstlertheater and the Deutsches Theater in Berlin as well as at the Small House of the Municipal Theater in Frankfurt am Main.
During the Second World War she took on a few supporting roles in films.
In 1944 she was on the God-blessed list of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda .
After the end of the war she acted at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden and from 1951 at the Renaissance Theater in Berlin.
She was married to the actor Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur from 1919 to 1925 .
Her sister was actress Uschi Elleot .
This film tells the unusually sensitive story of two women who try to cope with men, one a pragmatic gold digger type, not unsympathetic though, the other a dreamer who falls in love with a man in a magic moment ... or so she thinks.
A man and a woman struggle to stifle their love for each other, even after he moves away to travel the world and she marries a suitor.
A couple, Hasia and Otto, are brought together by their loss of wealth and status as the imperial era ends, but torn apart by an unusual offer from a wealthy man. The man wishes Otto to marry his daughter, as Otto bares a striking resemblance to his daughter's fiancee who was killed in WWI. In exchange, Otto will want for nothing.