11/29/2022 0 Comments Kartinki na rabochij stol prirodaShe had an uncredited bit in the Frenke-produced Heaven Knows, Mr. Most of Anna Sten's latter-day film appearances were, in fact, favours to her husband. She was married to film producer Eugene Frenke, who flourished in Hollywood after following his wife stateside in 1932. Happily, Sten did not have to rely on acting to support her comfortable lifestyle. Cahn, 1956), produced at American International Pictures. In the late 1950s she was seen in the cheap juvenile delinquent epic Runaway Daughters (Edward L. She continued making films in the USA and England, including secondary roles in The Man I Married (Irving Pichel, 1940), So Ends Our Night (John Cromwell, 1941) and a lead in the propaganda film They Came to Blow Up America (Edward Ludwig, 1943). Reluctantly, Goldwyn dissolved his contract with his ‘new Garbo. But the film was not successful at the box office, and nor were her two subsequent Goldwyn films, We Live Again (Rouben Mamoulian, 1934) and The Wedding Night (King Vidor, 1935) with Gary Cooper. Her first American film was Nana (Dorothy Arzner, George Fitzmaurice, 1934), a somewhat homogenised version of Emile Zola's scandalous novel. For two years he had his new star tutored in English and taught Hollywood screen acting methods. He was looking for a foreign-born actress that he could build up as the rival of, and possible successor to, Greta Garbo. Making a smooth transition to talking pictures, Anna appeared in such German films as Salto Mortale (Ewald André Dupont, 1931), Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff (Erich Engels, Fedor Ozep, 1931) and Stürme der Leidenschaft (Robert Siodmak, 1932).Īnna Sten came to the attention of American movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn. Then she traveled to Germany to appear in films co-produced by German and Russian studios, international productions common in the years prior to World War II. She studied at the Moscow Film Academy, and later acted in plays and such popular films as Devushka s korobkoy (Boris Barnet, 1927), Zemlya v plenu (Fyodor Otsep/Fedor Ozep, 1928) and Belyy oryol (Yakov Protazanov, 1928). Anna herself worked as a waitress until she was discovered at the age of 15 while acting in an amateur play in Kiev. Her father was a Ukrainian ballet master who died when she was 12, her mother was Swedish. Strikingly beautiful Anna Sten (1908-1993) was a Ukrainian-born actress, who became the most famous, or rather, the most notorious of the many ‘new Greta Garbos’ of the 1930s.Īnna Sten was born Anel (Anjuschka) Stenski Sudakevich in 1908, in Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine, Russian Empire (now Kiev, Ukraine). Publicity still for Nana (Dorothy Arzner, George Fitzmaurice, 1934). British postcard in the Filmshots series by Film Weekly.
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