Hedda Vernon
Hedda Vernon, also Hedda Vernon Moest, (* October 20, 1886; † after 1925) was a German actress of the silent film era. She was one of the first stars of the early German cinema.
Life
Vernon was hired in 1912 by the German Bioscop as an actress. Your screen debut was in 1912 in the silent film The Paper Trail directed by Emil Alpes. The following year she played at the Vita Scope directed by Harry Piel in the first and second part of the silent film people and masks. Other films directed by Piel, but also collaborations with Max Obal, followed until 1914.
Vernon realized early on the potential of the new medium of film. In 1914, she founded the production company in Berlin Hedda Vernon film and produced his own films for their Hedda Vernon series, including 1914 self- directedness or the yellow grimace and 1916 Hedda Vernon's stage sketch. In 1914, she was an actress in some movies for Paul Davidson PAGU, including 1914 in Richard Oswald The iron cross.
In 1913, Vernon married the director and actor Hubert Moest. It was taken from the Eiko - film under contract and worked until the end of the First World War mainly under the direction of her husband, in 1919 his own production company founded Moest production. For Moest films The Red Shoes (1917 ) and The Dead Secret (1918 ) Vernon also wrote the screenplay. In 1920, her marriage was divorced with Moest.
In the 1920s, interest in Vernon subsided. She worked from 1920 to 1921 with Harry Piel in the film series The headless horseman together, but was increasingly busy in supporting roles. The last known film Vernons between two women came in 1925 in the cinemas. Overall Vernon participated in more than 60 silent films 1912-1925.