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). If you come across any problems or wish to ask a question, please do not hesitate to contact our Support service using the.British postcard in the Filmshots series by Film Weekly. It might be worth checking your computer for viruses with an antivirus utility such as from «Dr.Web». Itʼs also possible that your computer has been infected with a Spambot virus thatʼs using your computer to gather information. If this is the case, we recommend disabling these add-ons. Your browser may also contain add-ons that send automated requests to our search engine. Weʼve developed a service called that has been specially designed to handle such requests. You could be submitting a large number of automated requests to our search engine. Then you shouldnʼt be bothered by this page for a long time. If this is the case, youʼll just need to enter the CAPTCHA code once, and weʼll be able to distinguish between you and the other users on your IP address. Why did this happen? Itʼs possible that these automated requests were sent from another user on your network.
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