Hedda Vernon

Hedda Vernon on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Hedda Vernon (born as Hedwig Klara Kemp on October 27, 1888 in Rummelsburg , Pomerania , German Empire ; † after 1925) was a German actress of the silent film era. She was one of the first stars of early German cinema.

Life

Vernon was hired as an actress by the German Bioscop around 1912 . She made her screen debut in 1912 in the silent film The Paper Track , directed by Emil Albes . In the following year she already played with Vitascope under the direction of Harry Piel in the first and second part of the silent film People and Masks . Further films directed by Piel, but also collaborations with Max Obal , followed until 1914.

Vernon recognized the possibilities of the new medium film early on. Around 1914 she founded the production company Hedda Vernon Film in Berlin and produced her own films for her Hedda Vernon series, including 1914 Self-directed or The Yellow Face and 1916 Hedda Vernons Bühnensketch . In 1914 she was an actress in several films for Paul Davidson's PAGU, including in 1914 Richard Oswald's The Iron Cross .

Vernon married director and actor Hubert Moest in 1913 . She was signed by Eiko-Film and worked mainly under the direction of her husband until the end of the First World War , who founded his own production company Moest-Produktion in 1919. Vernon also wrote the script for the Moest films The Red Shoes (1917) and The Secret Of Death (1918). In 1920, her marriage to Moest was divorced.

Interest in Vernon waned in the 1920s. She worked from 1920 to 1921 with Harry Piel in the film series Der Reiter ohne Kopf , but was increasingly cast in supporting roles. Vernon's last known film, Between Two Women , was released in 1925. In total, Vernon acted in more than 60 silent films between 1912 and 1925.

Hedda Vernon was married to the actor and writer Ernst Hofmann for the third time. [1]

Filmography

1912: The paper trail 1912: The red Jule 1913: The struggle for inheritance 1913: The small residence 1913: The heir to the throne 1913: One night in the girls' boarding school 1913: The million dollar mine 1913: Old Heidelberg, you fine ... 1913: Frou-Frou. Memoirs of a prima ballerina 1913: people and masks 1914: I will avenge you 1914: The dead live 1914: Self-directed or The Yellow Face (also production) 1914: Marriage upon notice 1914: The brown beast 1914: The iron cross 1914: the pearl 1914: The lock 1915: The begging princess 1915: Maria Nobody and her twelve fathers 1915: But love found its way 1915: The marriage trap 1915: Zofia 1915: Maid pranks 1916: The miracle of the night 1916: The victim of the Wera Wogg 1916: Mask play of the night 1916: Hedda Vernon's stage sketch (also production) 1916: Hedda in the bath 1916: Hans in luck 1916: The picture of the ancestress 1916: The Road to Wealth 1916: His flirtatious wife 1916: Suzanne's virtue 1917: The rejected 1917: The scar on the knee 1917: The strange woman 1917: Noemi, the blond Jewess

1917: The Red Shoes (also screenplay) 1918: puppet 1918: The whip 1918: shackles 1918: ... but the greatest evil is guilt 1918: Mouchy 1918: The Secret of Death (also screenplay) 1918: Where there's a will, there's a way 1919: The death of the other 1919: The jumping jack 1919: tumult 1919: The big risk 1919: The witch from Norderoog 1919: Galeotto, the great matchmaker 1919: the heiress 1919: Everything was wrong 1919: childhood love 1919: Blond poison 1919: His confession 1919: Ut mine Stromtid 1920: Maita 1920: The Brescia women's refuge 1920: The pushover king 1920: Manolescu's memoirs 1920: The Despiser of Death 1920: Help! 1920: Lady Godiva 1921: The Room with the Seven Doors, Part 1: The Inca Treasure 1921: The chaste sinner 1921: Jim Corwey is dead 1921: The Headless Rider , three parts (The Death Trap, The Mysterious Power, Harry Piel's Hardest Victory) 1921: The Virgin of the Cynasty 1922: The Franconian song 1923: The sun in St. Moritz 1923: Lord Aldini's foolish bet 1923: The woman from the Orient 1925: Between two women

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Source: Marriage certificate No. 281 of September 10, 1917, Landesarchiv Berlin.

Web links

• Hedda Vernon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Hedda Vernon at filmportal.de