Liane Haid

Liane Haid died in Bern, Switzerland, in 2000, aged 105. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1957. She made her last film appearance in 1953. Hull made one more film, The Lady from Texas (1951), and appeared in a TV version of Arsenic and Old Lace in 1949, before retiring. Her notable films include Lady Hamilton (1921; her breakthrough role); Lucrezia Borgia (1926); Die Csardasfürstin (1927, based on the operetta by Emmerich Kálmán); and the talkies Das Lied ist aus (The Song Is Ended) (1930) and Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn (1936). She brought her two best stage roles to film in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) playing a homicidal aunt, and in Harvey (1950) as the batty sister of a man whose friend is an invisible rabbit, for which she won the 1950 Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. She got married and also ended her film career. Hull made a total of five films.

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". Through the 1920s she continued working in the theater, and in the 1930s had three Broadway hits in You Can't Take It With You (1936), Arsenic and Old Lace (1941), and Harvey (1944). Her first motion picture was a propaganda film made during the First World War, Mit Herz und Hand fürs Vaterland (1916). She worked for UFA and, as a trained singer, easily made the transition to the sound era, appearing in comedy films alongside German stars such as Willi Forst, Georg Alexander, Theo Lingen, and Heinz Rühmann. Hull was a stage success in Craig's Wife (1926), and in Daisy Mayme (1926), a role which was written especially for her. Born in Vienna, Haid trained both as a dancer and singer and became the epitome of the Süßes Wiener Mädel ("Sweet Viennese Girl") and a popular pin-up throughout the 1920s and 30s. Her husband died in 1919, and in 1923 Hull returned to show business under the name Josephine Hull. Haid as Lucrezia Borgia and Conrad Veidt as Cesare Borgia (1926). She made her stage debut in stock in 1905, and spent five years as a chorus girl and touring stock before she married Shelley Hull in 1910.

Liane Haid (August 16, 1895 - November 28, 2000) was an Austrian actress who has often been referred to as Austria's first movie star. Hull was born Josephine Sherwood in Newtonville, Massachusetts, and attended Radcliffe College and The New England Conservatory of Music. List of centenarians. Josephine Hull (January 3, 1886 - March 12, 1957) was an American actress who had a successful 50-year career on Broadway before taking some of her best roles to film.