Liane Haid

Liane Haid died in Bern, Switzerland, in 2000, aged 105. She was made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1975 . She made her last film appearance in 1953. She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1958 for the film Separate Tables. 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 was nominated again in 1966 for A Man for All Seasons. She got married and also ended her film career. She was nominated for an Oscar in 1938 for her first major film role in Pygmalion.

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". Her performance in Love on the Dole attracted the attention of George Bernard Shaw, and he cast her in several of his plays, including Saint Joan, Pygmalion and Major Barbara. 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. She first found success in the stage version of Love on the Dole, and in 1936 married the author Ronald Gow. 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 professional debut as an actress was in repertory at Manchester. Haid as Lucrezia Borgia and Conrad Veidt as Cesare Borgia (1926). She was born Wendy Margaret Hiller in Cheshire in England, daughter of Frank Watkin Hiller and Marie Stone.

Liane Haid (August 16, 1895 - November 28, 2000) was an Austrian actress who has often been referred to as Austria's first movie star. Dame Wendy Hiller (August 15, 1912 - May 14, 2003) was an English film and stage actress. List of centenarians. The Countess Alice (1992). The Best Of Friends (1991). Ending Up (1989).

Anne Of Green Gables: The Sequel (1987). All Passion Spent (1986). The Importance of Being Earnest (1985). The Kingfisher (1982).

Miss Morison's Ghosts (1981). Country (1981). Clochemerle (1972). David Copperfield (1969).

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987). Attracta (1983). Making Love (1982). The Elephant Man (1980).

The Cat and The Canary (1978). Voyage of the Damned (1976). Murder on the Orient Express (1974). A Man for All Seasons (1966).

Toys in the Attic (1963). Sons and Lovers (1960). Separate Tables (1958). Something of Value (1957).

How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957). Single-Handed (USA: Sailor of the King) (1953). Outcast of the Islands (1952). I Know Where I'm Going! (1945).

Major Barbara (1941). Pygmalion (1938). Lancashire Luck (1937).