La Jana

La Jana

Birth : 1905-02-24, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Death : 1940-03-13

Profile

La Jana

Movies

Leckerbissen
"Gems" - Embedded in a frame story, the film shows excerpts from 18 entertainment films of the time, among others, "The Gypsy Baron", "The Three Codonas", "La Habanera", "Viennese Blood", "Sophienlund", and "Mask in Blue".
The Star of Rio
Concha
Menschen vom Varieté
Silvia Castellani
In a cosmopolitan city vaudeville theatre, meeting place of the most successful artistes, the art shooter gets in suspicion to have committed a murderous poster on his jealous partner. - Not particularly successful mixture of vaudeville theatre numbers, artiste's destiny and crime film tension, on an average produced and played. A production rotated in Budapest with the popular dancer La Jana.
The Stars Shine
Tänzerin
German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.
The Indian Tomb
Sitha / Indira
After the events of Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Maharadscha Chandra is ready to execute his well-planned vengeance, in which German architect Peter Fürbringer, his fiancée Irene and his assistant will have to fight for their lives amidst a revolt fueled by traitor Prinz Ramigani.
The Tiger of Eschnapur
Maharani von Eschnapur
Truxa
Tänzerin Yester
The famous tightrope artist Truxa is drinking at the Artisan bar in New York. He meets a young man, Husen, and gives him his stage name Truxa. He is to take the real Truxa's place at a circus show in Wintergarten, Berlin.
The Schlemihl
Hartwig gets by a strange coincidence confused by a prince with a certain Josef Döllinger in a luxurious restaurant. Hartwig is overjoyed, as he gets to know the dancer Garda Maro.
The Warsaw Citadel
In the 19th century, Polish patriots rise up in Warsaw against domination by the Czar of Russia.
Der Herzensphotograph
Dodo
Thérèse Raquin
Susanne Michaud
A silent adaptation of the novel by French writer Émile Zola.
Ritter der Nacht
Marie-Louise
Gaunerliebchen
Marie
Der Ladenprinz
Prinzessin Tatjana
Der Biberpelz
Leontine
Casanova
Dancer
Seven episodes tell the story of the exciting life of legendary charmer Casanova.
A Perfect Gentleman
Marquise Hortense
Social comedy-drama. Aristocrat's boredom in marriage of convenience and sacrif ice of self on behalf of wife's lover.
His English Wife
London socialite Cathleen Paget's adventures in love and misfortune a year after the death of her husband. Ivor Willington and Lionel Jesop play cards for who will be given the shot at flirting with Paget, as to claim her wealth. But when her brother Bruce has lost the family fortune in bad business, Cathleen is suggested to court Nordic giant Birger Holm. The two marry and the families financial problems seem to be at bay, although the life in the northern Sweden is wearing Cathleen down as she misses parties, friends and dancing at the Savoy Hotel.
Ways to Strength and Beauty
The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training and shows in stylized documentary scenes aspects of physical hygiene, gymnastics, sports and dancing as well as scenes in which supposed sportsmen of antiquity pose naked.