Liane Haid Movies
One of Germany's greatest silent stars, Liane Haid appeared in more than 90 silent films, first in Austria then in Berlin where, along with her husband, Baron Fritz von Haymerle, she founded the production company Micco-Film. Haid, who received her greatest fame as Lady Hamilton (1921) and Lucrezia Borgia (1922), steadfastly refused offers from Hollywood and later made a successful transition to sound films. She continued to appear onscreen despite the ever threatening political climate in Germany, but finally fled to neutral Switzerland in 1942 because "everything was bombed and all the good directors had left." A screen comeback in 1953 proved rather anticlimactic and she retired from performing, dying at the ripe old age of 105 in her home in Bern, Switzerland, in November of 2000. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide- 1924
This romantic drama is taken from the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow entitled "The Spanish Student." Dolores (Betty Blythe) is the beguiling gypsy dancer who rejects the lecherous advances of Count de Silva (Randle Ayrton). Pedro (Herbert Langley) kills the count, but Dolores is jailed when she refuses to reveal the count's killer. Warwick Ward, Liane Haid, and Hal Martin co-star in this well-crafted melodrama filmed in Vienna by Irish director Herbert Wilcox. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
