Hedda Nova

Hedda Nova

Born: May 15, 1899
Died: January 16, 1981
in Odessa, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
Hedda Nova (1899–1981) was a Russian-born American film actress.

She was a silent film actress for 17 years with the "Universal Film Studios Company". She did not transfer to talking films most probably because of her thick Russian accent.

Movies for Hedda Nova...

My Own Pal
Title: My Own Pal
Character: Mrs. Jud McIntire
Released: February 28, 1926
Type: Movie
My Own Pal takes Tom Mix out of his customary western surroundings and plunks him in the middle of New York City.
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The Were-Tiger
Title: The Were-Tiger
Released: May 31, 1925
Type: Movie
A jungle drama about a woman who befriends a tiger.
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The Miracle Baby
Title: The Miracle Baby
Character: Violet
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Neil Allison is tricked into assaying some false samples from a young crook's mine. When Neil sees that he has been duped, a quarrel ensues, and Jim Starke, the youth, is stabbed by an unknown assassin. Neil runs away thinking he has committed murder and becomes the unwitting partner of the victim's father.
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Golden Silence
Title: Golden Silence
Released: March 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Sam Corwin, stage line owner and camp bully, makes unwelcome love to Polly, daughter of an old prospector. The old man drives him off the place at gunpoint and Sam conspires to have the old man sent to prison. He stages a fake hold-up, leaving the old man's hat on the scene. This is managed with the connivance of one of Sam's stage drivers.
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Shadows of the West
Title: Shadows of the West
Character: Mary
Released: August 1, 1921
Type: Movie
California cowpuncher Jim Kern and his pal enlist in the war against Germany and, shortly thereafter, meet Frank Akuri, who has pledged to colonize the United States for his homeland, Japan. While Jim and other white males are fighting in France, Akuri forces Jim's sweetheart Mary to sell her ranch, as she is not able to run it because the only men left, the Japanese, have pledged not to work for the whites. With the ranch, Akuri begins his colony. Mary counters by organizing her society women friends to appeal to Congress against the "yellow menace." When it seems that his plans will be thwarted, Akuri issues orders for the death of Mary and her friends, but Jim and his pal return and rescue them. Akuri then kidnaps Mary and takes her to his apartment, but with the help of Akuri's wronged Japanese lover, Jim learns her whereabouts. He organizes a posse of American Legion locals and rescues Mary just as Akuri is about to murder her. Akuri's group is routed out.
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The Mask
Title: The Mask
Character: Helen Traynor
Released: June 17, 1921
Type: Movie
The Mask 1921 film
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The Spitfire of Seville
Title: The Spitfire of Seville
Released: July 21, 1919
Type: Movie
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The Crimson Gardenia
Title: The Crimson Gardenia
Character: Madelon Dorette
Released: June 14, 1919
Type: Movie
Wastrel New York millionaire Roland Van Dam travels to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, looking for adventure and romance. Because the costume he is wearing includes a red gardenia, he is mistaken for escaped prisoner Emile Le Duc by a woman (who turns out to be a long-lost cousin) who was to meet Le Duc, who was to be wearing a red gardenia. It turns out that Le Duc is the head of a vicious gang of counterfeiters, and Roland winds up getting in more adventures than he had hoped for.
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Mary Regan
Title: Mary Regan
Character: Nina Cordova
Released: May 4, 1919
Type: Movie
Mary Regan is the daughter of a gentleman crook and an heiress. Although she has received a good upbringing, she refuses to marry Robert Clifford for fear of damaging his career as a city official. Some old associates of her father, Peter Loveman and Jim Bradley, want her to help them in their blackmailing schemes. She won't, and escapes from her trying situation by going to the mountains for a rest.
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Calibre 38
Title: Calibre 38
Character: Joan
Released: February 16, 1919
Type: Movie
Montana cattleman Austin Brandt is jilted by Rosemary, who elopes with stranger Royce Greer, but he is consoled by his twenty-year-old niece Joan. Rosemary later returns to Custer City to run a dance hall with her husband, who mistreats her.
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The Woman in the Web
Title: The Woman in the Web
Character: Princess Olga Muratoft
Released: April 8, 1918
Type: Movie
An adventure serial released in 1918
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The Show Down
Title: The Show Down
Released: August 6, 1917
Type: Movie
Inconsiderate millionaire John Benson, philanthropist Oliver North, courageous Langdon Crane, wealthy idler Robert Curtis and Lydia Benson are among the passengers on an ocean liner that is sunk by a German submarine. Carried away by the currents to a tropical island, the castaways endure hardships which bring out their true natures.