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Joachim Gottshalk

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Actor

The Resume

    (April 10, 1904-November 6, 1941)
    Died in Berlin, Germany
    Basis for the acclaimed 1947 film 'Marriage In the Shadows'
    Committed suicide at 37

Why he might be annoying:

    He was typecast as the romantic leading man in all his films.
    He was married to Jewish actress Meta Wolff, the couple avoided much of the anti-Semitic violence due to his star power.
    He ignored friends' advice to leave Germany.
    Joseph Goebbels demanded the couple divorce.
    When Joachim refused, he was ordered into the German army. His wife and son were to be deported to a concentration camp.
    Minutes before the couple were seized by the Gestapo, they sedated their young child and gassed themselves to death.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was compared to Cary Grant.
    Although he was a matinee idol, the Nazis refused to allow Joachim to promote his films unless he divorced Meta.
    When he found out his wife and son were headed to a concentration camp, he demanded to go with them. The Nazis refused, of course.
    Oddly, Goebbels and his wife took their own lives in a similar manner.
    Gottschalk chose death over a life without his family.

Credit: Black Chic


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 72.73% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 16 Votes: 43.75% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 17 Votes: 35.29% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 14 Votes: 35.71% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 29 Votes: 44.83% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 58 Votes: 36.21% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 37 Votes: 35.14% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 56 Votes: 51.79% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 115 Votes: 44.35% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 50 Votes: 24.00% Annoying