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Revision as of 06:58, 22 September 2010
Fern Andra | |
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| Born | Vernal Edna Andrews |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, writer, film director/producer |
| Years active | 1913–1930 |
| Spouse(s) | General Samuel Edge Dockrell (1938-1973; his death) Ian Keith (1932/1934-19??; divorce) Kurt Prenzel (divorced) Baron Friedrich von Weichs (19??-1917; his death) |
Fern Andra (November 24, ca. 1894[1]– 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 of the 1910s. [citation needed]
Biography
Born as Vernal Edna Andrews in Watseka, Illinois, 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 was 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. While in Berlin she met Max Reinhardt, who gave her acting lessons. [citation needed]
In 1913 she appeared in her first German film, entitled Das Ave Maria. Still only moderately well-known, she made her only Austrian film in 1915: Zwei Freunde. From 1916 to 1918 she appeared almost exclusively on camera with Alfred Abel. [citation needed] 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 USA, later expanding her range to include radio and television. On July 4, 1922, she was in a plane crash, in which the pilot, WWI flying ace Lothar von Richthofen, was killed. Andra survived but her companion, director Georg Bluen, died the following day from his injuries. [citation needed]
Marriages
Fern Andra was married four times; all of the unions were childless:
- Baron Friedrich von und zu Weichs (died in 1917)
- Kurt Prenzel (married 1923 or 1924; divorced)
- Ian Keith (married 1932[2]; divorced)
- Gen. Samuel Edge Dockrell (died in 1973)
Death
Fern Andra died in Aiken, South Carolina, on February 8, 1974; she was around 79 years old.
References
Links
- Fern Andra at IMDb
- Fern Andra's photos
- Note: Although Fern Andra is reputedly interred at Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Aiken, South Carolina, per Find-a-Grave, there is no photo of her gravesite and a phone call to the cemetery by this editor indicated that, although there had been numerous inquiries due to Internet curiosity, the cemetery had no record of any Fern Andrews or Vernal Andrews or Fern Dockrell interred there
- 1890s births
- 1974 deaths
- Actors from Illinois
- American expatriates in Germany
- American film actors
- American radio actors
- American silent film actors
- American television actors
- Cinema of Germany
- German film actors
- German silent film actors
- People from Iroquois County, Illinois
- People from Aiken County, South Carolina