Magda Sonja
Magda Sonja, actually Venceslava Vesely (* May 23, 1886 in Hradisko, Austria - Hungary, † August 15 1974 in Los Angeles, United States) was an Austrian actress that mattered in the 1920s to the divas of the Austrian silent film.
Life
Magda Sonja began her acting career at the age of almost 20 years at the Theater an der Wien. After that, she worked in various Viennese cabaret as Diseuse. For silent film they came in 1917 As early as 1918, it was built at the Vienna Sascha film the star of the distinguished Austrian silent film -. , As a counterpart to the movie star of the Viennese art film, Liane Haid. In those years, which were the most productive in the Austrian film history annually with over 100 movies, she was the actress most widely used of Sascha movie. She played among others in "The Other Me" (1918 ), " To a woman " (1918 ) and " Don Juan's last adventure " (1918). In the 20's she played the leading roles in " Venus " (1922 ), "The birth of the Antichrist" (1922 ), " Dracula halala " (1923 ) and " Sanin " (1924 ) and became thus the Austrian silent film diva. Then she turned to her husband, the director Friedrich Feher, some films in Germany. The highlight of her career, she reached in 1927 with " Mata Hari, the red dancer" and " Mary Stuart ". With the rise of sound film her career waned rapidly. In 1933, she emigrated with her husband to England, where, however, they also could not connect to their success of the silent film era.
From her marriage to Friedrich Fehér was a son, Hans Feher, forth with which they followed her in 1936 emigrated to the United States Man the following year.