Tala Birell

Birell was born in Bucharest^[4] as Natalie Bierle on 10 September 1907,^[5] the daughter of Bavarian businessman Karl Bierle and Stefanie von Schaydakowska, who came from Austro-Hungarian Galicia.^{[citation needed]}

Birell had stage and screen experience in Vienna. She doubled for Marlene Dietrich in German films.

The Oakland Tribune reported that Birell "made her debut in a hit in a Berlin production of Madame Pompadour."^[6] She came to England in 1930 to appear in E. A. Dupont's Menschen im Käfig, the German language version of Cape Forlorn, and later went to America to play in the German version of The Boudoir Diplomat.^[7] Star of the stage in Europe, she became popular in American films, including a small role in Bringing Up Baby (1938).

In 1940 she appeared onstage in My Dear Children at the Belasco Theatre in New York City. She also appeared on Broadway in Order Please (1934).^[8] One of her final on-camera appearances was on the popular 1953 US anthology drama television series Orient Express in the episode titled The Red Sash.^[9]

Birell became an American citizein in Chicago on April 1, 1940.^[4]

Birell died, aged 50, on 17 February 1958, in Landstuhl, German Federal Republic.^[5] She is buried in the Bavarian village Marquartstein in a family tomb.