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| name = Baroness Fern Andra von Weichs | image = Fern Andra.png | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = Vernal Edna Andrews | birth_date = {{birth date|1893|11|24}} | birth_place = Watseka, Illinois, U.S. | death_date = {{dda|1974|2|8|1893|11|24}} | death_place = Aiken, South Carolina, U.S. | occupation = Actress, writer, film director/producer | years_active = 1913–1930 | spouse = Baron Friedrich von Weichs (19??; d. 1917) Kurt Prenzel (1923/24–div. 19??) {{marriage|Ian Keith|1932|1934|end=div}} {{marriage|General Samuel Edge Dockrell|1938|1973|end=d.}} }} Fern Andra, Dowager Baroness von Weichs (November 24, 1893[1] – February 8, 1974) was an American actress, film director, script writer and producer. Next to Henny Porten and Asta Nielsen she was one of the most popular and best-known actresses in German silent film. BiographyBorn as Vernal Edna Andrews in Watseka, Illinois in 1893, the daughter of a William P. Andrews and Sarah Emily Evett, also known as Sadie. When her father died in 1898, Sadie remarried Frank St. Clair, a vaudeville actor, circus performer and tight-rope walker. Andra was already appearing in public in a tightrope act by the age of four. She later trained in song and dance. As early as 1899, in New York, she made her first film, a version of Uncle Tom's Cabin. However, she remained with the circus, with which she embarked on an extensive tour across the United States, Canada and Europe. For a time, she was a member of Bird Millman's acclaimed troupe of wire artists.[2] In Berlin she met Max Reinhardt, who gave her acting lessons. In 1913, aged 19, she appeared in her first German film, Das Ave Maria. Still only moderately well-known, she made her only Austrian film in 1915: Zwei Freunde. From 1916-18 she appeared almost exclusively on camera with Alfred Abel. In 1920 she starred in Robert Wiene's expressionist horror film Genuine. In the mid-1920s she lost her public appeal in Germany. {{Citation needed|date=November 2011}} On July 4, 1922, she was involved in the Hamburg-Berlin mail plane accident. The pilot, Lothar von Richthofen, younger brother of World War I flying ace Manfred von Richthofen (the "Red Baron"), was killed. Andra was initially misreported as dead,[3] but survived. Her companion, director Georg Bluen, also survived and continued working with her until 1925.[4] From 1928 she worked in the UK and the US, later expanding her range to include radio and television. {{Citation needed|date=November 2011}} MarriagesFern Andra was married four times; all of the unions were childless:
DeathFern Andra died in Aiken, South Carolina, on February 8, 1974, aged 80. Selected filmography
References1. ^Born in 1893 per the 1900 United States Census, June 1, 1900, which gives her age as of her last birthday as six years old 2. ^"Marriages: Millman-[O’Day]; Fern Andra," Billboard, May 10, 1924, p. 114 3. ^New York Times/Chicago Tribune (July 5, 1922) Fern Andrea, Formerly of Illinois, Killed [sic] by Fall-Richtoff, Airman, Also Killed [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/07/05/99033273.pdf Hamburg-Berlin mail plane accident] for original article 4. ^Stars and Stripes Forever: "Von Richthofen's mother, actress Fern Andra meet November 14, 1954; Retrieved November 17, 2016 External links{{commons category|Fern Andra}}
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