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Anna Sten is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter Russe born on 3 december 1908 at Kiev (Ukraine)
Anna Sten (Russian: Анна Стен; December 3, 1908 – November 12, 1993) was a Ukrainian-born American actress. She began her career in stage plays and films in Russia before travelling to Germany, where she starred in several films. Her performances were noticed by film producer Samuel Goldwyn, who brought her to the United States with the aim of creating a new screen personality to rival the popular Greta Garbo. After a few unsuccessful films, Goldwyn released her from her contract. She continued to act occasionally until her final film appearance in 1962.
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Anna Sten
Birth name Anna Petrivna Fesak
Nationality Russie
Birth 3 december 1908 at Kiev (Ukraine)
Death 12 november 1993 (at 84 years) at New York City (USA)
Nationality Russie
Birth 3 december 1908 at Kiev (Ukraine)
Death 12 november 1993 (at 84 years) at New York City (USA)
Biography
Sten was married to film producer Eugene Frenke, who flourished in Hollywood after following his wife there in 1932.Usually with
Filmography of Anna Sten (24 films)
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The Nun and the Sergeant (1962)
, 1h14Directed by Franklin Adreon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about religion, Political films
Actors Anna Sten, Robert Webber, Leo Gordon, Hari Rhodes, King Moody, Robert Easton
Roles Sister Mary Joseph
Rating53%
In a forerunner of The Dirty Dozen, Marine Gunnery Sergeant McGrath (Robert Webber) takes 12 Marines from the brig and trains them to blow up a tunnel behind North Korean lines. McGrath's only friend on the patrol is his Korean guide Pak (Dale Ishimoto). Hating their sergeant, the Marines plan to return to their lines without him, seeing that he becomes "a casualty of war". However, en route to their target they find an injured nun (Anna Sten) and a group of Korean convent girls whose bus has been destroyed.
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
, 1h46Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about religion, Transport films, Films based on Robinson Crusoe, Political films, Children's films
Actors Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Anna Sten
Rating72%
In the South Pacific in 1944, U.S. Marine Corporal Allison (Robert Mitchum) and his reconnaissance party had been in the process of disembarking from a U.S. Navy submarine when they were discovered and fired upon by the Japanese. The submarine's captain was forced to dive and leave the scouting team behind. Allison got to a rubber raft and after days adrift, reaches an island. He finds an abandoned settlement and a chapel with one occupant: Sister Angela (Deborah Kerr), a novice nun who has not yet taken her final vows. She herself has been on the island for only four days; she came with an elderly priest to evacuate another clergyman, only to find the Japanese had arrived first. The frightened natives who had brought them to the island left the pair without warning, and the priest died soon after.
Runaway Daughters (1956)
, 1h31Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Marla English, John Litel, Gloria Castillo, Anna Sten, Mary Ellen Kay, Frank Gorshin
Roles Ruth Barton
Rating49%
Audrey Barton is the teen daughter of rich, irresponsible parents. When school classmate Tommy brings her home from a date, they spy Ruth Barton, her mother, passionately kissing a neighbor.
Soldier of Fortune (1955)
, 1h36Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Gene Barry, Tim Abell, Tom Tully
Roles Madame Dupree
Rating61%
Jane Hoyt (Susan Hayward) arrives in Hong Kong, looking for her husband, thrill-seeking photojournalist Louis Hoyt (Gene Barry). She attracts the eye of shady shipping magnate Hank Lee (Clark Gable). With his help, she learns that Louis entered Communist China and was imprisoned as a suspected spy.
Let's Live a Little (1948)
, 1h25Directed by Richard Wallace
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Hedy Lamarr, Robert Cummings, Anna Sten, Mary Treen, Robert Shayne, Harry Antrim
Roles Michele Bennett
Rating53%
At Montgomery Advertising in New York City, Duke Crawford (Robert Cummings) is having trouble handling the account of cosmetics manufacturer Michele Bennett (Anna Sten), one of the company's most important clients—and his former fiancée. Still determined to win him back, Michele refuses to sign a contract until Duke reciprocates her affection. When Duke threatens to quit Michele's account, his boss James Montgomery (Harry Antrim) assigns him to do the book promotion for a new client, a nerve psychologist named J.O. Loring.
Chetniks! (1943)
, 1h13Directed by Louis King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Philip Dorn, Anna Sten, Shepperd Strudwick, Virginia Gilmore, Martin Kosleck, Felix Basch
Roles Lubitca Mihailovitch
Rating64%
In the opening scene, German troops and tanks are shown invading the Kingdom of Yugoslavia while bombers attack the capital Belgrade. When the Germans, Italians, Hungarians, and Bulgarians invade Yugoslavia on 6 April 1941, Serbian army colonel Draža Mihailović forms a band of guerrillas known as the Chetniks, who launch a resistance movement against the Axis occupation. Mihailović's forces then engage in an attack on the German and Italian forces, forcing them to employ seven Axis divisions against them.
They Came to Blow Up America (1943)
, 1h13Directed by Edward Ludwig
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Robert Barrat, Charles McGraw, George Sanders, Anna Sten, Ralph Byrd, Ward Bond
Roles Frau Reiter
Rating63%
When only six of eight would-be German saboteurs are sentenced to death by an American court during World War II, an FBI agent complains to his boss, Craig (Ward Bond), about the other two. Craig tells him about one of the men sentenced to prison. A flashback ensues.
Three Russian Girls (1943)
, 1h21Directed by Fedor Ozep, Henry S. Kesler
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Anna Sten, Kent Smith, Kane Richmond, Alexander Granach, Paul Guilfoyle (acteur, 1902-1961), Feodor Chaliapin, Jr.
Roles Natasha
Rating66%
So Ends Our Night (1941)
, 1h57Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Glenn Ford, Frances Dee, Anna Sten, Erich von Stroheim
Roles Lilo
Rating67%
The story begins in 1937 Austria, before the German occupation which would arrive the following year. Josef Steiner (Fredric March) is a middle-aged German veteran who has been an ideological opponent to the Nazi regime from its inception and already escaped from two years in a concentration camp. He's in hiding in a dodgy Austrian boarding house with young Ludwig Kern (Glenn Ford in an early and outstanding performance), a bewildered 19-year-old German from a prosperous family that was found to have Jewish forebears when the Nazis came to power and now "half-Aryan," are abruptly deprived of their German citizenship and passports, rendered stateless and ordered to leave the country.
The Eternal Jew (1940)
, 1h2Directed by Fritz Hippler
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Politique, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Harry Giese, Curt Bois, Fritz Kortner, Peter Lorre, Ernst Lubitsch
Roles Gruschenka (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rating45%
Le Juif éternel est une contribution à l’idéologie nazie. Il dépeint l’idée d’un complot international ourdi par les Juifs de l’Est (de nombreuses scènes ont été tournées en Pologne) et les Juifs de l’Ouest, dans la tradition des Protocoles des Sages de Sion. Il met tout en œuvre pour dépeindre les Juifs comme des sous-hommes et a pour but de montrer qu’ils sont un peuple auquel il faut s’opposer, dénonçant leur façon de vivre, leur histoire, leurs coutumes… Ainsi, le documentaire prétend dévoiler les véritables traits du « Juif éternel », d’après les nazis.
The Man I Married (1940)
, 1h17Directed by Irving Pichel
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, Children's films
Actors Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, Lloyd Nolan, Anna Sten, Otto Kruger, Maria Ouspenskaïa
Roles Frieda
Rating69%
A successful American woman, Editor at The Smart World - Editorial, General Offices, Carol Cabbott (Joan Bennett) has just married a German, Eric Hoffman (Charles Lederer), a streamline marriage. They have a seven year old son, Ricky (Johnny Russell). They are to have a vacation to Germany to visit Erics father he didn't see for ten years, although everybody tells them to go to Germany is foolish. A friend, Dr. Hugo Gerhardt (Ludwig Stössel), originally german, asks them a favor: his brother, the famous philosopher Gerhardt has been arrested and put in a concentration camp, if they can bring him money and somehow help him.
Exile Express (1939)
, 1h11Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Anna Sten, Alan Marshal, Jerome Cowan, Walter Catlett, Jed Prouty, Stanley Fields
Roles Nadine Nikolas
Rating51%
After being wrongly implicated in the murder of her scientist boss by foreign agents, a young immigrant woman is placed on board an "exile express" from California to New York City where she is to be deported from Ellis Island. With the help of a journalist who has fallen in love with her, she jumps the train and sets out to prove her innocence.
A Woman Alone (1936)
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Anna Sten, Henry Wilcoxon, Viola Keats, John Garrick, Romilly Lunge, Esmé Percy
Roles Maria Krasnova aka Maria Novikova
Rating60%
The Wedding Night (1935)
, 1h23Directed by Ralph Bellamy, Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, Samuel Goldwyn, King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, Ralph Bellamy, Walter Brennan, Helen Vinson, Sig Ruman
Roles Manya Novak
Rating65%
New York novelist Tony Barrett (Gary Cooper) and his wife Dora (Helen Vinson) have accumulated serious debts as a result of their fast and affluent lifestyle in the big city. When he approaches his publisher expecting an advance on his newest novel, Tony is told that success has gone to his head and the novel is unpublishable. With few options available, Tony and Dora move to his family's run-down farm in Connecticut, where they meet his neighbors, a Polish farmer, Jan Novak (Sig Ruman), and his beautiful daughter, Manya (Anna Sten). Looking to expand his own property, Mr. Novak offers Tony $5,000 for a field bordering the Novak farm. With their finances replenished, Dora returns to New York, leaving Tony at the farm, where he intends to write a new novel inspired by the Novaks and their friends.
Nana (1934)
, 1h30Directed by Dorothy Arzner, George Fitzmaurice
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Anna Sten, Lionel Atwill, Richard Bennett, Mae Clarke, Reginald Owen, Phillips Holmes
Roles Nana
Rating59%
Nana est la coqueluche du théâtre de Paris de la Belle Époque. Elle attire beaucoup d'hommes, mais a un faible pour un officier.