Loni Nest

Eleonore "Loni" Arnault ( Nest, 4 August 1915 – 2 October 1990), known professionally by her maiden name of Loni Nest, was a German actress. Born in Berlin, she was a child star of German silent films in the 1920s. She was filmed for the first time at the age of four weeks.

Life and film career After more than 40 movies, she ended her movie career in 1928 at the age of 13. In 1933 she played in one last movie in France.

In 2014, the website Forever Missed published an obituary that ostensibly revealed that Nest had died in Hawaii in 2014 at the age of 98. It also described details of Nest's life after she left Germany and moved to America. Various websites including the Internet Movie Database quickly adopted this information. It was soon discovered, however, that both the time and location of her death as well as the details about her later life were a hoax. According to the German newspaper Die Welt, German film historian Toni Schieck had discovered years before that Nest's sister Ursula had moved to the United States and died in Florida in 2007. Through her family, Schieck discovered that Nest had married and taken the last name Arnault. She moved to France where she died at the age of 75 in Nice.

Filmography

1918: The Story of Dida Ibsen 1919: Die Ehe der Frau Mary 1919: Opium 1919: Harakiri 1920: Kämpfende Gewalten oder Welt ohne Krieg 1920: Der Reigen – Ein Werdegang 1920: Patience 1920: Johannes Goth 1920: Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam 1920: The Guilt of Lavinia Morland The Wandering Image (1920) 1921: Man Overboard 1921: Ein Erpressertrick 1921: Schloß Vogelöd 1921: Violet 1921: Die Minderjährige – Zu jung fürs Leben 1921: Parisian Women 1921: The Convict of Cayenne 1921: The Pearl of the Orient 1921: Sturmflut des Lebens 1922: Alone in the Jungle 1922: Sunken Worlds 1922: Tabitha, Stand Up 1922: A Dying Nation (2 parts) 1922: Aus den Erinnerungen eines Frauenarztes (2 parts) 1923: Quarantäne 1923: Tragedy of Love 1923: Fräulein Raffke 1923: The Little Napoleon 1923: Black Earth 1924: Two Children 1924: Mother and Child 1924: The Evangelist 1925: Fire of Love 1925: Die Prinzessin und der Geiger 1925: Die freudlose Gasse 1925: A Song from Days of Youth 1928: The Saint and Her Fool 1928: The Story of a Little Parisian 1933: L'Épervier