Tala Birell
2 credits on HibingeTV
Austrian-American actress. She played Maxine, the jealous assistant to the mad scientist, in The Monster Maker (1944). She appeared in a number of Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s, often in exotic or supporting roles, before her career declined.
Acted In
Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist becomes obsessed with a concert pianist's daughter and, when she rejects him, injects the pianist with a serum that causes acromegaly, the glandular disease that hideously enlarges the face and extremities. He offers the cure only in exchange for the daughter's hand. J. Carrol Naish plays the villain with relish, and the film uses the real, disfiguring effects of the disease as its horror rather than a fictional monster. A cheap, brisk PRC production from the prolific director Sam Newfield, it is a solid example of 1940s Poverty Row horror. The film is in the public domain.
Horror · Sci-Fi
The Monster Maker
1944 - as Maxine
War, Drama
In the final days of the Second World War, six women — one from each of the Allied nations — are held captive in a Shanghai hotel by Axis officers developing a "cosmic ray" superweapon they claim could outmatch the atomic bomb. As the Allies close in, the prisoners plot to steal the weapon's plans and turn the tables on their captors. Tala Birell, William Henry, and Richard Loo star in this wartime thriller directed by William Rowland. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.
War · Drama · Thriller
Women in the Night
1948 - as Yvette Aubert