Anna Sten

Anna Sten

Born: December 3, 1908
Died: November 12, 1993
in Kiev, Russian Empire [now Kyiv, Ukraine]
Anna Sten (Ukrainian: А́нна Стен; born Anna Petrivna Fesak) was a Ukrainian-born American actress. She began her career in stage plays and films in the Soviet Union before traveling 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 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.

Movies for Anna Sten...

Title: Arrest and Trial
Released: September 15, 1963
Type: TV
Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m. Eastern.
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The Nun and the Sergeant
Title: The Nun and the Sergeant
Character: Sister Mary Joseph
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A weary sergeant in Korea commands military prisoners on a dangerous mission and is joined by a nun and a group of schoolgirls in enemy territory.
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Title: Adventures in Paradise
Character: Antonia Kohlermann
Released: October 5, 1959
Type: TV
Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.
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Title: The Walter Winchell File
Released: October 2, 1957
Type: TV
The Walter Winchell File is the title of a television crime drama series that initially aired from 1957 to 1958, dramatizing cases from the New York City Police Department that were covered in the New York Daily Mirror. The series featured columnist and announcer Walter Winchell, John Larch, George Cisar, Robert Anderson, Robert Brubaker, Dolores Donlon, and Gene Barry, a year before he was cast in the lead of NBC's Bat Masterson. Thirty-nine episodes were produced; the first twenty-six aired on ABC during the 1957-1958 season, and the final thirteen were seen in syndication in 1959. Among the guest stars was the child actor Dennis Holmes, who played 7-year-old Allie Marisch in the 1957 episode "Thou Shalt Not Kill."
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Runaway Daughters
Title: Runaway Daughters
Character: Ruth Barton
Released: January 20, 1956
Type: Movie
Three teenagers with troubled families are unable to adjust at home and in high-school. Tempted with an easy, carefree life they soon pass from misdemeanors into serious crime - and will suffer for it. Sometimes, repentance comes too late.
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Soldier of Fortune
Title: Soldier of Fortune
Character: Madame Dupree
Released: May 24, 1955
Type: Movie
An American woman arrives in Hong Kong to unravel the mystery of her missing photographer husband. After getting nowhere with the authorities, she is led by some underground characters to an American soldier of fortune working in the area against the Communists. He promises to help find her husband.
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Let's Live a Little
Title: Let's Live a Little
Character: Michele Bennett
Released: December 9, 1948
Type: Movie
A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former fiancée. The latest client of the agency is a psychiatrist and author of a new book. When the executive goes over to discuss the ad campaign, the psychiatrist turns out to be a woman. But what does he really need? Romance? Or analysis?
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Three Russian Girls
Title: Three Russian Girls
Character: Natasha
Released: December 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Another of a wartime cycle of Hollywood films lauding the praises of America's Soviet allies, Three Russian Girls is a remake of Russia's The Girl From Stalingrad. Set just after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the film stars Anna Sten as Natasha, a Red Cross volunteer who is dispatched to a field hospital located in an old pre-revolution mansion. American test pilot John Hill (Kent Smith), who'd been in Russia on a goodwill mission, is wounded in battle and brought to the hospital. As he slowly recovers from his wounds, Hill falls in love with Natasha. A last-act crisis develops when the hospital personnel are forced to move immediately to Leningrad as the Nazis advance.
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They Came to Blow Up America
Title: They Came to Blow Up America
Character: Frau Reiter
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with orders to blow up various defense installations.
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Chetniks!
Title: Chetniks!
Character: Lubitca Mihailovitch
Released: January 11, 1943
Type: Movie
Subtitled The Fighting Guerillas, Chetniks tells the story of Yugoslavian guerilla fighter General Draja Mihailovitch. Based on the General's own memoirs, the film depicts Mihailovitch (played here by Philip Dorn) as a selfless idealist, leading his resistance troops, known as the Chetniks, on one raid after another against the Germans during WW II.
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So Ends Our Night
Title: So Ends Our Night
Character: Lilo
Released: February 27, 1941
Type: Movie
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
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The Eternal Jew
Title: The Eternal Jew
Character: Gruschenka (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.
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The Man I Married
Title: The Man I Married
Character: Frieda
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
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Exile Express
Title: Exile Express
Character: Nadine Nikolas
Released: May 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
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A Woman Alone
Title: A Woman Alone
Character: Maria Krasnova aka Maria Novikova
Released: May 19, 1936
Type: Movie
An officer becomes entangled in a love affair with a woman who works as a maid.
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The Wedding Night
Title: The Wedding Night
Character: Manya Novak
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik (Bellamy). Due to a snowstorm, Tony and Manya are trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
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We Live Again
Title: We Live Again
Character: Katusha Maslova
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
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Nana
Title: Nana
Character: Nana
Released: February 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Young Parisian Nana wards off of a boozed-up military officer at a local restaurant, and fellow diner Gaston Greiner is so impressed with her pluck that he decides to make her a performer at his musical theater. Soon, Nana is a star, and the girlfriend of Greiner and two other men. But when he learns that she's been getting around, Greiner fires her. As she tries to reclaim her singing job while dodging yet another suitor, her treachery might get the better of her.
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The Tempest
Title: The Tempest
Character: Russen-Annya
Released: January 22, 1932
Type: Movie
Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).
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Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Title: Bombs Over Monte Carlo
Character: Königin von Pontenero Yola I
Released: August 31, 1931
Type: Movie
The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.
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Trapeze
Title: Trapeze
Character: Marina
Released: August 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Robby and Jim are two friends working in a circus. When Marina, a new acrobat, enters the show, both men will compete for her love. She needs a partner for a flying number, and one of them will be elected. Then accidents will happen.
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The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
Title: The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov
Character: Gruschenka
Released: February 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father; based on Dostoevsky's novel.
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Bookkeeper Kremke
Title: Bookkeeper Kremke
Character: Lene, Kremkes ältere Tochter
Released: September 14, 1930
Type: Movie
In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payroll clerk loses his job due to technological advances and, unable to find another, descends into despair. The film’s director, Marie Harder, was one of only a few women directors of the time and was also the head of the German Social Democratic Film Office. She made only two known films before her accidental death in exile in Mexico in 1936.
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Golden Beak
Title: Golden Beak
Released: January 2, 1929
Type: Movie
Directed by Yevgeni Chervyakov.
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Glory Dealers
Title: Glory Dealers
Released: January 1, 1929
Type: Movie
The film is set in France during World War I. Bachelet's father and son are members of the French army . After the death of Bachelet Jr., he is called a national hero, actively using the fact of his death in the election campaign to fight communism. At the time of the opening of the monument in his honor, the hero himself appears, having returned to his homeland. It turns out that Bashlet Jr. was actually only shell-shocked, not killed. He uses the current situation to call on the audience to stop the imperialist war. This is followed by his arrest and charges of imposture.
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The White Eagle
Title: The White Eagle
Released: October 9, 1928
Type: Movie
The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a small Russian province who tries to treat the people under his authority with kindness and equanimity. But when a local factory goes on strike, the governor buckles under to pressure from the Tzar and orders the wholesale slaughter of the strikers. He pays for this betrayal of his trust with his life -- at the hands of a courageous Bolshevik spy.
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My Son
Title: My Son
Released: August 21, 1928
Type: Movie
A man discovers that he's not the father of his wife's baby.
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The Yellow Ticket
Title: The Yellow Ticket
Character: Maria, young farmer's wife
Released: February 7, 1928
Type: Movie
Jacob, a farmer, returns from the war to his wife Marie and begs the landlord baron for a plot of land to rent. The Baron grants the request, but only for a barren, rocky, useless acreage. The pair struggle to make do on this land, but then the Baron demands that Maria leave her husband to serve as wet nurse to his married daughter Anya's new baby, on threat of eviction. While nursing the daughter's baby, Maria receives unwelcome attentions from the daughter's husband, and a scandal erupts, ruining Maria in her husband's eyes. When she escapes from her employers and seeks to return home, the police give her the yellow passport signifying a prostitute, further degrading her. She approaches home, unsure of the reception that awaits her.
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The Girl with the Hat Box
Title: The Girl with the Hat Box
Character: Natasha
Released: April 19, 1927
Type: Movie
A Moscow hat shop girl chances upon a penniless young man who has arrived from the countryside for university and takes pity on him.