A brilliant young actress in pre-WW II Vienna, Hanni Melvyn (her European stage name,in honor of her hero, Melvyn Douglas) was rehearsing the role of "Titania" in Shakespeare's "A Mid-Summer Night's Dream", directed by the internationally acclaimed Max Reinhardt, when Hitler annexed Austria. In the early hours of that fateful day, Johanna and her family escaped to Hungary and, later, to the United States. In New York City, at acting school trying to lose her accent, Johanna met a young handsome actor in Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne's famous theater company. His name was Cameron Mitchell. They married, Cam starred on Broadway in the original production of "Death of A Salesman", they moved to Hollywood where Cameron's career took off, and had four children. During this time, Johanna made one film entitled Three Stripes in the Sun (1955) with Dick York and Aldo Ray under the stage name of "Camille Janclaire" (the name she and Cameron later gave to their daughter). After their divorce twenty years later, Johanna went on to become one of the top businesswomen in North America, a pioneer woman entrepreneur in the Canadian meat-packing industry, inheriting the roles of president and chairwoman of the board from her father, Fred Mendel, who founded Intercontinental Packers after his arrival in Canada in 1940. Later, Cameron and Johanna reconciled and were together until his death in 1994.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: milliemitch1
She was the daughter of Fred S. Mendel and Claire Kaufman Mendel
- IMDb Mini Biography By: milliemitch1
She was the daughter of Fred S. Mendel and Claire Kaufman Mendel
A brilliant young actress in pre-WW II Vienna, Hanni Melvyn (her European stage name,in honor of her hero, Melvyn Douglas) was rehearsing the role of "Titania" in Shakespeare's "A Mid-Summer Night's Dream", directed by the internationally acclaimed Max Reinhardt, when Hitler annexed Austria. In the early hours of that fateful day, Johanna and her family escaped to Hungary and, later, to the United States. In New York City, at acting school trying to lose her accent, Johanna met a young handsome actor in Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne's famous theater company. His name was Cameron Mitchell. They married, Cam starred on Broadway in the original production of "Death of A Salesman", they moved to Hollywood where Cameron's career took off, and had four children. During this time, Johanna made one film entitled Three Stripes in the Sun (1955) with Dick York and Aldo Ray under the stage name of "Camille Janclaire" (the name she and Cameron later gave to their daughter). After their divorce twenty years later, Johanna went on to become one of the top businesswomen in North America, a pioneer woman entrepreneur in the Canadian meat-packing industry, inheriting the roles of president and chairwoman of the board from her father, Fred Mendel, who founded Intercontinental Packers after his arrival in Canada in 1940. Later, Cameron and Johanna reconciled and were together until his death in 1994.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: milliemitch1
She was the daughter of Fred S. Mendel and Claire Kaufman Mendel
- IMDb Mini Biography By: milliemitch1
She was the daughter of Fred S. Mendel and Claire Kaufman Mendel
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