Personal Info
Birth date
1902-05-15 (123 Years)
Day of death
1987-02-28
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Tarnów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Tarnów, Malopolskie, Poland]
Also known as
Anna Ondráková
Anny Ondráková
Ossia Valdová
Anna Schmeling
Анни Ондракова
Анни Ондра
Anna Sophie Ondráková
Anny Ondra
Biography
Anny Ondra (May 15 1903 – February 28 1987) was a Czech film actress. She was born Anna Sophie Ondráková in Tarnów, Galicia, Austria–Hungary, now Poland. She began her career in 1920 and appeared in Czech, German, Austrian, French and English films. In 1933, she married German boxing champion Max Schmeling. She died in Hollenstedt near Harburg, Germany. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anny Ondra, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Blackmail
6.549
Overview:
London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.The Manxman
6.094
Overview:
A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.Hitchcock/Truffaut
7.3
Overview:
Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.The Zurich Engagement
6.324
Overview:
Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner's closest friend and from then on things become very complicated...Polish Blood
4.5
Overview:
The daughter of a landowner helps save an aristocratic neighbor from ruin, in this operetta adaptation.Die vertauschte Braut
5.8
Overview:
Capricious Lady Virginia has an unexpected double in a girl who works at a fair and wishes for a beauty salon. When the first one's eccentricities lead to her arrest, the second is paid for going to prison. There she meets Charles, Virginia's suitor. When out of jail she will have to fight not only for him but for going through with the leading role in a skating show.The Great Passion
6.5
Overview:
This is a real curiosity; at best a reasonable film, but also a charming little gem. There is a story (in the line of "A Star is Born"), but this merely serves as an excuse, as it is more importantly a kind of moving encyclopedia of about 35 stars making their debut in a talkie (although some of them had already made one talkie), of the technical sound possibilities and of film making. Besides all that, it is entertaining and sometimes hilarious and it has fine one-liners that split my side. The film is also remarkable for making mock of typical German film genres (like the overly sweet romances involving the military), of too heavy acting and of film making in general. I have to mention this one: a short, hysterically funny parody of "Der blaue Engel". What this film in fact says is: do not take any film too seriously. (J. Steed)Baby
7
Overview:
The daughter of the Parisian countess Lafitte, named "Baby", is supposed to go to an English boarding school, but she's much more interested in variety shows. Nevertheless, she travels with her friend Susette to London, who also wants to make a career for herself as a showgirl. During the journey, Baby is mistakenly considered to be a showgirl and she does nothing to dissuade two young English lords from believing so. The girls continue to live under false pretenses even when they arrive in England, with Baby being a soloist with the group "Babies" and Suzette passing herself off as the Contessa Lafitte for school exams. At the end -- a double marriage.The Hound of the Baskervilles
6.1
Overview:
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson look into reports that a huge, vicious hound has killed Lord Charles Baskerville and that Lord Henry Baskerville is the next to be killed.Kiki
4
Overview:
Kiki who has a walk-on part in a show, is in love with her director, who doesn't notice her at all. She settles into his home and causes him to break up with his lover, the star of the show; and finally manages to make him love her.Fairground People
7
Overview:
Young Anny returns from school to her circus family, which runs a little venue at the town fair. When Anny suddenly has to fill in for one of the artists, her piano-playing not only enthrals the audience, but also theatre agent Horbes. He casts the whole family for the Apollo theatre in Berlin, where Anny quickly raises to stardom and is offered an engagement from the US.Sound Test for Blackmail
6.2
Overview:
The short sequence, photographed by Jack E Cox, has Hitchcock trying his best to embarrass the film's Czech lead Anny Ondra, who ends up giggling and turning her back to the camera...Chyťte ho!
NYR
Overview:
Painter Johnny Miller bets his friends he can find his house blindfolded. But he stumbles into a bandits' camp, and being mistaken for one of them, is sent to rob the villa of Frank Sellins, a banker, and his niece Lilly.Der Scheidungsgrund
NYR
Overview:
The lawyer, Dr. Werkmann, is seeking a legal separation for Mr. Bernhof, who claims his wife is an incorrigible gambler. In reality, it is he who is the weakling; and while he dearly loves his wife, he's going through her fortune like there's no tomorrow. His wife, however, loves him dearly, too, in spite of his faults and doesn't want the marriage to end. Dr. Werkmann proposes something at a family meeting, which just might save the marriage after all.Ein Mädel vom Ballett
NYR
Overview:
Henriette Lange lives only for the theater in Berlin around 1900. Her grandfather, however, has no understanding for this. He is a prompter and knows all about the hustle and bustle of the theater. Her friend, the chorus girl Liesbeth, is heartbroken because the revue star Vera Schreyvogel has his eye on her boyfriend Hans Reuter. But Liesbeth soon consoles herself with someone else, and Mrs. Schreyvogel is quickly forgotten. For Hans Reuter too, because he now loves Henriette. Liesbeth is dismissed without notice because she has fallen out with Mrs. Schreyvogel, and Henriette now has to sing her part. Her dream finally comes true. As she sings blissfully, she sees the Schreyvogel hugging her Hans in the background. She gets stuck in the middle of the song - her career is over! But not with love: she has conquered her Hans forever.White Paradise
6
Overview:
After a young man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, the daughter of the local tavern owners must spring to the rescue.Him and His Sister
5.6
Overview:
Postman Brabec is a welcome guest of the revue theatre for his sense of humor, and he brings his director Holt letters from female admirers every day. Holt's fans include Brabec's sister Anny. The girl would like to join the theatre, but for the time being works as a maid for the actress Velden. A new revue is being rehearsed, the name of the author is secret. Veldenová will return the role just before the premiere because she doesn't like it. The quick-witted Brabec introduces the director to his sister, who knows all the parts by heart.Should We Wed Them?
NYR
Overview:
Professor Bock is to inaugurate the museum, the construction of which was donated by a generous patron who remains anonymous. He learns that it is his brother's wife, a former dancer, and whom he hates. But her daughter falls in love with Jim, the son of the ex-dancer, and everything will work out.Acting
2015Hitchcock/Truffaut as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1957The Zurich Engagement as Herself
1951Schön muß man sein as Rode de Lila
1951Deutscher Filmpreis (1 Episode) as Self
1943Himmel, wir erben ein Schloß as Unknown
1941Der Gasmann as Erika Knittel
1938Narren im Schnee as Dorothee Heinemann
1938The Stars Shine as Gast
1937Der Unwiderstehliche as Claudette Renier
1937Důvod k rozvodu as Anny Plavcová
1937Der Scheidungsgrund as Anny Storm
1937Vor Liebe wird gewarnt as Anny Palme
1937Ein Mädel vom Ballett as Henriette Lange
1936Flitterwochen as Ingeborg
1936Donogoo Tonka as Josette
1935The Young Count as Billy
1935Großreinemachen as Bessie
1935Knockout – Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann as Marianne Plümke
1934Polská krev as Helena Zarembová
1934Polish Blood as Helena Zaremba
1934Klein-Dorrit as Amy
1934L'amour en cage as Unknown
1934Die vertauschte Braut as Virginia Vanderloo / Colly
1933Das verliebte Hotel as Hanne Boll
1933Fräulein Hoffmanns Erzählungen as Anita Limann
1933Die Tochter des Regiments as Mary Dreizehn
1933kiki as Unknown
1933Baby as Baby
1932Baby as Baby
1932Kiki as Kiki
1932The Ideal Schoolmaster as Věra Matysová
1932The Cruel Girlfriend as Welgunda Bock
1932Should We Wed Them? as Anny
1932Une nuit au paradis as Monique Béchue
1932The bat as Unknown
1932A Night in Paradise as Monika Böhnicke
1931The bat as Unknown
1931Mamsell Nitouche as Mamselle Nitouche
1931Him and His Sister as Anna Brabcová
1931Meet the Sister as Anny Spatz
1930Eine Freundin so goldig wie Du as Anny
1930The Great Passion as Herself
1930Fairground People as Anny Flock
1930The girl from USA as Anny
1929The Virgin of Paris as Annemarie
1929Das Mädel mit der Peitsche as Anny Nebenkrug
1929Blackmail as Alice White
1929Sündig und süß as Musette
1929The Manxman as Kate Cregeen
1929Sound Test for Blackmail as Self (uncredited)
1928Suzy Saxophone as Anni von Aspen
1928Der erste Kuß as Unknown
1928Glorious Youth as Unknown
1928Daughters of Eve as Anny de Lavais
1927The Lovers of an Old Criminal as Unknown
1927Květ ze Šumavy as Unknown
1927Aničko, vrať se! as Unknown
1927Seine Hoheit, der Eintänzer as Unknown
1927The Old Man Bezousek as Melanka
1926Velbloud uchem jehly as Zuzka Pestová / Lili Weberová
1926Die Pratermizzi as Pratermizzi
1926Hraběnka z Podskalí as Unknown
1925Do panského stavu as Unknown
1925Lucerna as Hanicka
1925Šest mušketýrů as Unknown
1925Karel Havlíček Borovský as Unknown
1925Vdavky Nanynky Kulichovy as Unknown
1925Ich liebe dich as Helen Adelström
1925Chyťte ho! as Unknown
1924Moderne Ehen as Unknown
1924White Paradise as Nina (as Anny Ondráková)
1923The Kidnapping of Fux the Banker as Daisy
1923Muž bez srdce as Mrs. Vandergold
1923Tu ten kámen as Unknown
1923Dr. Jenkins Miracle Cure as Annie Mosovsková
1922Hütet eure Töchter as Unknown
1921The Poisoned Light as Anny Grant
1921The Arrival from the Darkness as Dagmar / Alena
1921Setřelé písmo as Unknown
1921Zpěv zlata as Unknown
1920There in the Mountains as Jarmilla
1920Gilly poprvé v Praze as Unknown
1920Lady with the Small Foot as Unknown
1920Niky's Magnificent Adventure as Unknown
1920Dráteníček as Unknown
1919Palimpsest as Unknown
Production
1937Der Scheidungsgrund ... Producer
1937The Hound of the Baskervilles ... Producer
1934Im Schallplattenladen ... Producer
1932The Cruel Girlfriend ... Producer
1932Une nuit au paradis ... Co-Producer
1930Fairground People ... Producer