Evi Kent

Brunette singer and actress, born Helene-Eva Kment in Brno (then Czechoslovakia), of Czech and German parentage. She was the daughter of football player and manager Wilhelm 'Willy' Kment (1914-2002). Evi attended drama classes in Berlin while simultaneously training as a singer and pianist. On screen from 1953, she made a tentative impact as Olly Saretzky in Rolf Thiele's Friederike von Barring (1956), co-starring alongside Martin Held and Nadja Tiller. Her later film roles tended to be naïve ingénues in lightweight teenage comedies and musicals. At her peak in the mid-60s, Evi played Irma La Douce on the stage and recorded several successful 'Schlagers' (pop songs), including 'M'agapas Cha-Cha', 'Ein kleines Engerl vom Himmel', 'Papa tanzt Mambo' (original hit 'Papa does Mambo' by Johnnie Ray) and 'Was kann schöner sein' (a German rendition of Doris Day's famous 'Que Sera, Sera'). After a few more sporadic TV appearances in the 1970s, Evi quietly faded from the scene.