Fern Andra
Fern Andra (remote Edna Andrews (birth name); Vernal Andrews ( Additional name ); Baroness Fern Andra von Weichs ( another name ) * November 24, 1894 in Watseka, Illinois, † February 8, 1974 in Aiken, South Carolina) was a American actress, director, screenwriter and film producer. In addition to Henny Porten and Asta Nielsen was one of the most popular and famous actresses of the German silent film of the 1910s.
Life
As the daughter of an artist and an opera singer, she was already four years old the first time with a high-wire act on the stage. They received instruction in dance and song. Already in 1899 she turned in New York her first film: Uncle Tom 's Cabin. She remained at first but the artistry faithful and hoofed it with a circus troupe by the United States, Canada and Europe.
In Berlin Fern Andra met Max Reinhardt, in which she took acting lessons. In 1913 she played in her first German film titled " Ave Maria ". Even moderately known, they played in 1915 also the only time in an Austrian film, "Two Friends " from the year 1915 the taste of the contemporary audience aptly, she appeared mainly in sentimental entertainment films, but also impressed by artistic performances in circus films.. Between 1916 and 1918, it was almost exclusively with Alfred Abel front of the camera, in 1920 she starred in Robert Wiene's Genuine. Most of her films 1915-1925 she produced, together with her (since 1917) Georg bluen partner, with your own company Andra film or Fern Andra - Film Co. Georg bluen. Mid-1920s, their popularity waned with the German public, so that they in 1928 in the UK and the USA, and later worked there also in the broadcasting and television.
Attention it attracted in 1922 as the victims of a plane crash at Hamburg- Fuhlsbüttel, in which the pilot Lothar von Richthofen was killed. They even survived the attack.
Fern Andra was childless married four times. Her first husband, Baron Friedrich von and Weichs, was killed in 1917, closed in 1924 their second marriage with Kurt Prenzel was divorced, as their 1932 closed third marriage to actor Ian Keith. Her fourth husband Sam Edge Dockrell died 1973.