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La Jana was the stage name of the brunette Viennese-born actress and exotic dancer Henriette 'Henny' Hiebel. She was trained as a ballerina for ten years and first performed at the Frankfurt Kinderoper at the age of eight. Of boyishly slim build, she appeared on stage in cabaret in 1921. Soon after, she was reputedly discovered for the screen by the director Géza von Cziffra at the Chat Noir cabaret in Paris. She received good publicity from a successful tour of Britain, during which the press alternately touted her as being Spanish or Hungarian. The build-up continued with glamour photographs for Vogue magazine. Movies followed and La Jana hit the big time with Truxa (1937) (dancing on a giant tambourine) and The Stars Shine (1938). Propelled to instant stardom, she came to represent oriental or Latin mystery and allure as the scantily-clad heroines of The Tiger of Eschnapur (1938), Das indische Grabmal (1938) (as the high priestess of a cult) and Stern von Rio (1940).
Her life ended tragically young at the very peak of her popularity. She died of pneumonia at the age of 35, a fact which rather cemented her cult status. Since she left few personal notes, little of La Jana's life is known. This has given life to unverified rumours and scuttlebutt. One fanciful story has it that she aided in the escape from Nazi Germany of Jewish acting colleagues and was consequently murdered by the SS.
La Jana was married to the opera star Michael Bohnen and was said to have previously been romantically involved with Wilhelm, the last Crown Prince of the former German Empire.- Actress
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Edith Hancke was born on 14 October 1928 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Holiday in St. Tropez (1964), Paradies der flotten Sünder, Das (1968) and Schwarzwälder Kirsch (1958). She was married to Klaus Sonnenschein and Lutz Moik. She died on 4 June 2015 in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany.- Rotraut Richter was born on 15 May 1915 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Our Flags Lead Us Forward (1933), Violet of Potsdam Square (1936) and Trouble Backstairs (1935). She died on 1 October 1947 in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany.
- Gertrud de Lalsky was born on 27 January 1878 in Danzig, West Prussia, Germany [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Kaiserliebchen (1931), The Love Waltz (1930) and The Dream of Butterfly (1939). She died on 16 September 1958 in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany.
- Ernst Dumcke was born on 13 November 1887 in Mannheim, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Last Waltz (1934), Mädchen in Weiß (1936) and Das Schicksal der Gabriele Stark (1915). He died on 21 June 1940 in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany.
- Ernst Karchow was born on 23 September 1892 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Lady Windermeres Fächer (1935), Patriots (1937) and Gold (1934). He died on 7 October 1953 in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany.
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Otz Tollen was born on 9 April 1882 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter (1920), Die Schreckensnacht im Irrenhaus Ivoy (1920) and Wenn Menschen irren. Frauen auf Irrwegen (1926). He died on 19 July 1965 in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany.- Luise Morland was born on 17 February 1899 in Germany. She was an actress, known for Kongo-Express (1939), Adventures of a Ten Mark Note (1926) and Ein Mädchen geht an Land (1938). She died on 15 October 1966 in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany.
- Elisabeth Ried was born on 23 October 1915 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden [now Baden-Württemberg], Germany. She was an actress, known for My Friend Barbara (1937). She died on 5 August 2001 in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany.
- Thomas Dörflein was born on 13 October 1963 in Wedding, Berlin, Germany. He died on 22 September 2008 in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany.
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Max Obal was born on 4 September 1881 in Brieg, Silesia, Germany [now Brzeg, Opolskie, Poland]. He was a director and writer, known for Das Rattenloch (1921), Sein Rekordflug (1914) and Der größte Gauner des Jahrhunderts (1928). He died on 18 May 1949 in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany.- Ernst Benzinger was born on 1 March 1867 in Hannover, Germany. He was an actor, known for Eugen Onegin (1919), Suchomlinow (1918) and Die Rose von Dschiandur (1918). He died on 29 January 1946 in Berlin, Wilmersdorf, Germany.
- Wolfram von Raven was born on 11 April 1924 in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany. He died in 2003 in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany.