Margot Landa

Margot Landa was born on October 4, 1907 in Berlin, Germany.

Born in Potsdam near Berlin Walter/Landa became a regular member of the cast at the Hamburg Stadttheater in 1923. After a season at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg she moved to Berlin in 1925 after being contracted by the Deutsches Künstlertheater Berlin (German Artist Theatre Berlin), one of the several Berlin theaters run by successful Jewish theatrical producer Heinz Saltenburg.

In 1926 her film career started when she was discovered by Reinhold Schünzel. She played mainly happy-go-lucky teenage girls in comedies, romantic comedies and farces which were constantly on an insignificant artistic level. Those were topics popular with the audience during the period of radical change from silent to sound movies.

As Margot Landa the young widow settled down in England, where she had worked already in 1928.

She was an actress, known for The Gala Performance (1932), Flitterwochen (1928) and Kennst du das kleine Haus am Michigansee? (1929). She was married to Max Landa.

Married to Jewish silent movie star Max Landa, 30 years her elder, her career came to a sudden end in Januar 1933 when the Nazi Party took over the government in Germany. The couple went into exile where her husband committed suicide the same year.

Her last film appearance was in the British production Night Alone in 1938. Warwick Ward, the producer of Night Alone, knew her from Berlin where he had worked as an actor.