Ruth Eweler

German actress Ruth Eweler appeared in German movies from 1933 and took on several notable roles, including the female lead in the 1937 film The Daughter of the Samurai, a German-Japanese co-production. She was a blonde leading lady of German films during the NS period. Eweler won her first movie contract after winning a beauty contest organized by a shampoo manufacturer. Around 1932, she became Germany's first "Miss Blonde" in a contest held by the Natural Blonde laboratories in Berlin. Her brother Heinrich, a Sturmbannführer in the SS, connected her politically to the regime during that time.

Eweler was active as an actress from 1934 to 1942, a span of about eight years. She died on October 1, 1947, at the age of 34, in Berlin. At that time, Berlin was notoriously underserved, and the circumstances of her death remain unclear. Some sources say she died of pneumonia, others attribute her death to anorexia, and still others suspect suicide. She was straight and of Caucasian ethnicity. Much about her life remains unknown; she left behind a modest but notable film legacy from a short career that ended before the post-war era fully began.