Two years later she would play the love interest of famous actor Hans Albers’s character in the film Savoy Hotel 217.

Horney was a good friend of the actor Joachim Gottschalk and appeared in four films with him.

After the Second World War she became an American citizen, but continued to visit Germany frequently, where she had a house in Bavaria.

She married the eminent Jewish art historian Hanns Swarzenski, a leading authority on German Romanesque manuscripts.

She continued to work in films and television (i.e. Oliver Twist) until her death in Hamburg in 1988.