Fern Andra
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Fern Andra (November 24, 1893 – February 8, 1974) was an American actress, film director, script writer and producer. Next to Henny Porten and Asta Nielsen she was one of the most popular and best-known actresses in German silent films. Born as Vernal Edna Andrews in Watseka, Illinois in 1893, the daughter of a circus performer and an opera singer, Andra was already appearing in public in a tightrope act by the age of four. She later trained in song and dance. As early as 1899, in New York, she made her first film, a version of Uncle Tom's Cabin. She remained however with the circus, with which she embarked on an extensive tour across the United States, Canada and Europe. In Berlin she met Max Reinhardt, who gave her acting lessons. In 1913, aged 19, she appeared in her first German film, Das Ave Maria. Still only moderately well-known, she made her only Austrian film in 1915: Zwei Freunde. From 1916-18 she appeared almost exclusively on camera with Alfred Abel. In 1920 she starred in Robert Wiene's expressionist horror film Genuine. In the mid-1920s she lost her public appeal in Germany. From 1928 she worked in the UK and the US, later expanding her range to include radio and television. Fern Andra died in Aiken, South Carolina, on February 8, 1974, aged 80.
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Driving Force
Since completing a portrait of Genuine, a high priestess, Percy becomes irritable and withdrawn. He loses interest in painting and refuses to see his friends, preferring to spend his time alone with the portrait in his study. After turning down a wealthy patron's offer to buy the picture, Percy falls asleep while reading stories of Genuine's life. Genuine comes to life from the painting and escapes.
Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire
Life is not easy for a young woman with no parents--her mother died and her alcoholic father abandoned her. Nevertheless, she climbs her way out of the underclass, going from prostitute to wife of a count.
Gesprengte Ketten
Part of the artificial-creature series encompassing Der Golem (1914 and 1920), Alraune (1918, 1928, 1930) and Metropolis (1926), 'Homunculus' was the most popular serial in Germany during World War I even influencing the dress of fashionable Berlin. Foenss, a Danish star, is the perfect creature manufactured in a laboratory by Kuehne. Having discovered his origins, that he has no 'soul' and is incapable of love, he revenges himself on mankind, instigating revolutions and becoming a monstrous but beautiful tyrant, relentlessly pursued by his creator-father who seeks to rectify his mistake.
The Artificial Man
After the death of her father, the young Comtesse von Hagen is taken in by her father's friend, who lives with his cousin and her son. The cousin is unhappy at this arrangement, and accuses the Comtesse of theft.
Frühlingsstürme im Herbste des Lebens
The Eyes of the World is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry King and written by Brewster Morse and Clarke Silvernail. The film stars Eulalie Jensen, Florence Roberts, Una Merkel, and Nance O'Neil.
The Eyes of the World
The film depicts the marriage between the mad Charles VI of France and his wife Queen Isabeau.
The Night of Queen Isabeau
The relationship between a painter and his lover fractures after the painter finds out she did not acquire a sum of money by selling his paintings, as she had claimed.
Ein Blatt im Sturm...doch das Schicksal hat es verweht
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Die nach Glück und Liebe suchen
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Frauen der Leidenschaft
Madame Récamier hosts fashionable and influential salons. Her beauty and intelligence attract many suitors, and her politics put her in conflict with the French government.
Madame Récamier
Fany, an up and coming dancer, is saved by a sculptor during a theatre fire. The two bond, distressing Fany's fiancee.
Ernst ist das Leben
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Des Lebens und der Liebe Wellen
An actor and his wife have a tumultuous relationship. It ends in separation and a child custody battle.
Zwei Menschen
In Belgium during the first World War , the Uhlans order the burgomaster to be shot by his son-in-law.
The Burgomaster of Stilemonde
A young dancer becomes a stunt rider through the patronage of a wealthy man.
Des Lebens ungemischte Freude
A middle class woman's marriage to a nobleman quickly becomes an unhappy one.
Der Seele Saiten schwingen nicht
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Radio Magic
A young woman becomes pregnant and is abandoned by her lover, just as her mother had been.
Wenn Menschen reif zur Liebe werden
Melodrama with the theme of class difference between a Count and the daughter of a ringmaster. They marry but their environment work against them in all kinds of fronts.