Lya Mara, born Aleksandra Gudowicz to a Polish family in Riga, Livonia (now Latvia), was a silent film star in Germany 1916 - 1931.
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Frauen, die man oft nicht grüßt (1925)
Character: Nina
Jazz-Age gender comedy about a Berlin party girl with a big heart - a heart sought after by many admirers. Only for her to become a boring stay-at-home-mom.
Anna Karenina (1920)
Character: Anna Karenina
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
Mary Lou (1928)
Character: Mary-Lou
Mary Lou falls into poverty and has no more remedy than joining a circus, where she has much success with her act. But a dirty guy arrives who wants to leave the circus, and who hopes for a future as a countess.
Halkas Gelöbnis (1918)
Character: Halka
The Count Symon Barinowsky returns home after a long absence, and falls for his now grown foster sister. Though the two wish to marry, the count's mother greatly disapproves.
Lyda Ssanin (1923)
Character: Lyda Ssanin
A beautiful and popular young woman enters a relationship with a wealthy womanizing cavalry captain.
Auferstehung. Katjuscha Maslowa (1923)
Character: Katjuscha Maslowa
A nobleman wishes to help the woman he had seduced and abandoned years earlier when he learns that she is now on trial for murder.
Studenci (1916)
Character: Stasia Majewska
A lost film starring Pola Negri
Manon. Das hohe Lied der Liebe (1919)
Character: Manon Lescaut
Adaptation of 18th century French novel "Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut."
Auf Befehl der Pompadour (1924)
Character: Lucienne
The film takes place on two time levels: first in contemporary France and then in the time of Louis XV. in the 18th century. Lucienne is a young, dynamic woman who, although she loves the chief engineer of her uncle Abel Fernay’s car factory, is forced to marry an unloved man, a noble businessman.
Die Rothenburger (1918)
Character: Lene
A medical officer decides to become a doctor, change his name and devote his life to research after the woman he loves marries his best friend.
Das tanzende Wien (1927)
Character: Komtesse Frizzi Zirsky
A cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving father that she is worthy of his son.
Der rote Kreis (1929)
Character: Thalia Drummond
Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
Bestia (1917)
Character: N/A
A wild young girl runs away from her parents' house to support herself and attracts the attentions of a married man, who is prepared to abandon his wife and child for her.
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