Johanna Matz

Actress Johanna Matz was born in Vienna 1932. She took ballet training at the Vienna Academy. At the age of sixteen she had stage training under Helene Thimig and Alfred Neugebauer. After early success in cinema she returned to the stage. She acted in Austrian, German and American films, but only occasionally because she considered herself primarily a theatre actress. Otto Preminger called her to Hollywood to play in Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (1953), the German version of The Moon Is Blue (1953). In 1954 she also made They Were So Young (1954) with music by Michael Jary. The film was also made in English language with the same stars. The American title was "They Were so Young".