La Jana

About La Jana

Who is it?: Actress
Birth Day: February 24, 1905
Birth Place: Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Birth Name: Henriette Margarethe Hiebel

La Jana

La Jana was the stage name of the brunette Viennese-born actress and exotic dancer Henriette 'Henny' Hiebel. She was...
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Does La Jana Dead or Alive?

As per our current Database, La Jana has been died on 13 March, 1940 at Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany.

🎂 La Jana - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

When La Jana die, La Jana was 35 years old.

Popular As La Jana
Occupation Actress
Age 35 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born February 24, 1905 (Vienna, Austria-Hungary)
Birthday February 24
Town/City Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Nationality Austria-Hungary

🌙 Zodiac

La Jana’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

La Jana was born in the Year of the Snake. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Snake are seductive, gregarious, introverted, generous, charming, good with money, analytical, insecure, jealous, slightly dangerous, smart, they rely on gut feelings, are hard-working and intelligent. Compatible with Rooster or Ox.

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La Jana was the stage name of the brunette Viennese-born actress and exotic dancer Henriette 'Henny' Hiebel. She was trained as a ballerina for ten years and first performed at the Frankfurt Kinderoper at the age of eight.

Of boyishly slim build, she appeared on stage in cabaret in 1921. Soon after, she was reputedly discovered for the screen by the director Géza von Cziffra at the Chat Noir cabaret in Paris. She received good publicity from a successful tour of Britain, during which the press alternately touted her as being Spanish or Hungarian.

The build-up continued with glamour photographs for Vogue magazine. Movies followed and La Jana hit the big time with Truxa (1937) (dancing on a giant tambourine) and The Stars Shine (1938). Propelled to instant stardom, she came to represent oriental or Latin mystery and allure as the scantily-clad heroines of The Tiger of Eschnapur (1938), Das indische Grabmal (1938) (as the high priestess of a cult) and Stern von Rio (1940).

Her life ended tragically young at the very peak of her popularity. She died of pneumonia at the age of 35, a fact which rather cemented her cult status. Since she left few personal notes, little of La Jana's life is known.

This has given life to unverified rumours and scuttlebutt. One fanciful story has it that she aided in the escape from Nazi Germany of Jewish acting colleagues and was consequently murdered by the SS.

La Jana was married to the opera star Michael Bohnen and was said to have previously been romantically involved with Wilhelm, the last Crown Prince of the former German Empire.

La Jana Movies

  • Der Biberpelz (1928) as Leontine
  • The Tiger of Eschnapur (1938) as Maharani von Eschnapur
  • The Stars Shine (1938) as Tänzerin
  • Truxa (1937) as Yester, Tänzerin

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