Liane Haid

She was the epitome of the Süßes Wiener Mädel (Sweet Viennese Girl), and from the mid 1910's on she made close to a hundred films.

Her debut was a propaganda film made during the First World War, Mit Herz und Hand fürs Vaterland/With Heart and Hand for the Fatherland (1915, Jacob Fleck, Luise Fleck).

In the 20's she rose to one of the most popular actresses. She acted together with all great actors of this time and made film history with the movies "Der Roman eines Dienstmädchens" (1921), "Lady Hamilton" (1921), "Lucrezia Borgia" (1922), "Die Brüder Schellenberg" (1926) and "Die Czardasfürstin" (1927).

She became a popular pin-up and appeared again opposite Conrad Veidt in Lucrezia Borgia/Bride of Vengeance (1922, Richard Oswald) and Die Brüder Schellenberg/The Brothers Schellenberg (1926, Karl Grune) with Lil Dagover. Also popular were the operettas Im weißen Rößl/The White Horse Inn (1926, Richard Oswald) with Max Hansen, and Die Csardasfürstin/The Csardas Princess (1927, Hanns Schwarz) opposite Hungarian star Imre Ráday. The later was an adaptation of the operetta by Emmerich Kálmán.

For Paramount she appeared in alternate language versions of their productions such as Die Männer um Lucie (1931, Alexander Korda), a German version of Laughter (1930, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast) with Nancy Carroll.

She played a part in the British production Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife (1936, Basil Dean).

Her sister Grit Haid was also a well-known actress, she died in a plane crash in 1938.

Having refused several offers from Hollywood, she escaped from Nazi Germany to Switzerland in 1942 "because of the regime, because everything was bombed, and because all the good directors had left".