Fern Andra
1894 - 1974Fern 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.
Der rote Reiter
Franz W. Koebner
Fern Andra, Albert Steinrück
A couple, Hasia and Otto, are brought together by their loss of wealth and status as the imperial era ends, but torn apart by an unusual offer from a wealthy man. The man wishes Otto to marry his daughter, as Otto bares a striking resemblance to his daughter's fiancee who was killed in WWI. In exchange, Otto will want for nothing.
Der rote Reiter
Frühlingsstürme im Herbste des Lebens
Fern Andra
Fern Andra, Josef Peterhans
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
Gesprengte Ketten
Fern Andra, Kurt Matull
Fern Andra
A young woman's life has very little going for her, her mother having died and her alcoholic father having abandoned her. Nevertheless, she climbs her way out of the underclass, going from prostitute to wife of a count.
Gesprengte Ketten
