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- Birth nameHermine Pfleger
- Mia May was a minor film actress in Germany who was born in 1884 with the birth name of Maria Pfleger. Her film career didn't start until she was 34 years old when she appeared in the production of HILDE WARREN UND DER TOD in 1917.- IMDb mini biography by: Denny Jackson
- SpouseJoe May(1902 - April 29, 1954) (his death, 1 child)
- Upon the rise of the Nazis in 1933, Mia May and Joe May emigrated to America via France.
- Mother of actress Eva May.
- Trained for acting and ballet while still at school. First on stage as a child actress at the Vienna Prater Theater under the name 'Herma Angelot'. On screen from 1912, promoted by her husband, the director Joe May. Usually acted in waif-like roles in melodramas on the silent screen.
- May's final screen appearance was in The Love Letters of Baroness S (1924).
- She continued her stage career as a teenager, taking on the stage name Herma Angelot, and appearing at the Apollo Theater as an actress and singer.
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