Anna Sten
Date of birth: 1908-12-03
Place of birth: Kiev, Russian Empire [now Kyiv, Ukraine]
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Anna Petrivna Fesak, Ганна Фесак
Biography
Anna Sten (Ukrainian: А́нна Стен; born Anna Petrivna Fesak) was a Ukrainian-born American actress. She began her career in stage plays and films in the Soviet Union before traveling to Germany, where she starred in several films. Her performances were noticed by film producer Samuel Goldwyn, who brought her to the United States with the aim of creating a new screen personality to rival Greta Garbo. After a few unsuccessful films, Goldwyn released her from her contract. She continued to act occasionally until her final film appearance in 1962.
Movie Credits
The Wedding Night
1935-03-08
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) be
The Girl with the Hat Box
1927-04-19
A Moscow hat shop girl chances upon a penniless young man who has arrived from the countryside for u
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
1931-08-31
The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from t
Nana
1934-02-01
Young Parisian Nana wards off of a boozed-up military officer at a local restaurant, and fellow dine
The White Eagle
1928-10-09
The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a
The Yellow Ticket
1928-02-07
Jacob, a farmer, returns from the war to his wife Marie and begs the landlord baron for a plot of la
The Man I Married
1940-08-09
An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
We Live Again
1934-11-01
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, i
So Ends Our Night
1941-02-27
An anti-Nazi refugee on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler
A Woman Alone
1936-05-19
An officer becomes entangled in a love affair with a woman who works as a maid.
Three Russian Girls
1943-12-30
Another of a wartime cycle of Hollywood films lauding the praises of America's Soviet allies, Three
Exile Express
1939-05-27
When her scientist-employer is murdered, a female legal immigrant suddenly finds herself being depor
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
1931-02-05
Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father; based on Dostoevsky's novel.
They Came to Blow Up America
1943-05-07
Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast
The Tempest
1932-01-22
Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s no
Let's Live a Little
1948-12-09
A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a s
My Son
1928-01-01
A man discovers that he's not the father of his wife's baby.
Glory Dealers
1929-01-01
The film is set in France during World War I. Bachelet's father and son are members of the French ar
The Nun and the Sergeant
1962-01-01
A weary sergeant in Korea commands military prisoners on a dangerous mission and is joined by a nun
Runaway Daughters
1956-01-20
Three teenagers with troubled families are unable to adjust at home and in high-school. Tempted with
The Eternal Jew
1940-11-28
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of
Chetniks!
1943-01-11
Subtitled The Fighting Guerillas, Chetniks tells the story of Serbian guerilla fighter General Drago
Bookkeeper Kremke
1930-09-14
In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payrol
Soldier of Fortune
1955-05-24
An American woman arrives in Hong Kong to unravel the mystery of her missing photographer husband. A
Golden Beak
1929-01-02
Directed by Yevgeni Chervyakov.
Trapeze
1931-08-14
Robby and Jim are two friends working in a circus. When Marina, a new acrobat, enters the show, both
The Traitor
1926-09-27
An agent working for the Tsar fools a group of Bolchevik sailors but is captured and punished after