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Ossi Oswalda (born Oswalda Amalie Anna Stäglich, 2 February 1897 – 7 March 1947) was a German actress, who mostly appeared in silent films. She was given the nickname 'The German Mary Pickford' due to her popularity at the time.
Oswalda trained as a ballerina and became a dancer for a theater in Berlin. She made her film debut in Richard Oswald's Nächte des Grauens (Night of Horrors) before being discovered by the actor and screenwriter Hanns Kräly, who in turn recommended her to director Ernst Lubitsch. During her early career, she starred in several films by Lubitsch, including The Merry Jail, I Don't Want to Be a Man, The Oyster Princess and The Doll. Her popularity at the time earned her the nickname 'The German Mary Pickford'.
In 1921, Oswalda started her own film production company with her husband at the time, the Hungarian Baron Gustav Wilhelm Viktor Freiherr von Koczian-Miskolczy (1877–1958). However, during the next four years they only produced four films, all starring Oswalda. From 1925 on, she was contracted to Ufa. The couple divorced in 1925, and Oswalda began a high profile affair with Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
Oswalda's career waned along with the silent film era, and she only acted in two sound films, making her final appearance on screen in the 1933 film The Star of Valencia. She escaped Nazi Germany and emigrated to Prague with her partner Julius Aubenberg in the 1930s.
Later on, she became a stage actor, and in 1943, wrote the screenplay for the Czechoslovakian film Čtrnáctý u stolu. By spring 1947, Oswalda went bankrupt and was suffering from multiple health problems.
Oswalda died penniless in Prague at the age of 50. She is buried at Olsany Cemetery.
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01 January 1990
A child is moved around like a doll
25 October 1926
Peter Verdy falls in love with Lola (Ossi Oswalda) who is mistaken for a boy when she appears in stage regalia before a rich uncle who has other marriage plans for his nephew.
01 January 1920
In the summer of 1920, the staff of the Rembrandt Theatre in Amsterdam went on strike, which was especially unfortunate for the management of the theatre, since they had invited the German film stars Ossi Oswalda, Marga Köhler, and Victor Janson to the Dutch premiere of their film Wohnungsnot (Ernst Lubitsch, 1920).
01 January 1918
Prince Sami comes from Nigeria and is an uncivilized "nature boy." He is sent to the highly civilized court of Duchess Maria of Arragon, where he initially causes chaos.
13 November 1928
A girl posing as a knight's male valet is vamped by his fiancée
26 June 1920
German silent film directed by Erich Schönfelder.
05 October 1917
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
24 January 1919
While making a movie in the Alps, the female star falls in love with a nobleman.
16 March 1928
Eddie Polo appears in this short showing his dexterity with a horse and lasso.
16 November 1917
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.
01 March 1918
A young woman is forced by her father to marry a man she doesn't love and flees before the marriage takes place.
05 December 1919
The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the dollmaker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
26 June 1919
A pampered American oyster tycoon decides to buy a husband for his daughter, but things don’t go quite as planned.
06 May 1925
Silent romantic comedy set on a train.
07 October 1921
A millionaire daughter is to be married to a man unknown to her. To get to know him, she slips into men's clothes, sticks on a mustache and is hired as a chauffeur.
06 June 1918
The new artistic director Dr. Fersen is appointed at the princely court theater in Dillingen. He is not only attractive, but also a bachelor, which delights the local women.
09 June 1916
Sally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school for goofing around.
01 October 1918
A teenage tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun.
30 November 1917
A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.
21 December 1925
The Girl with a Patron (German: Das Mädchen mit der Protektion) is a 1925 German silent comedy film directed by Max Mack and starring Ossi Oswalda, Willy Fritsch, and Nora Gregor.
17 January 1919
Sally Meyer, a young Berliner, persuades his Doctor to convince his wife that he is ill, so that he is able to take a holiday in the Austrian Alps.
06 February 1920
The plot of the lost film is divided into two acts. Ossi Oswalda and Victor Janson play two apartment seekers, while Marga Köhler is a landlady.
09 February 1917
An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.
22 December 1916
Sally comes from a small town to Berlin, where he begins an apprenticeship with his uncle. He helps his uncle with the bread production and dreams of becoming a famous tenor.
09 June 1927
The Girl on a Swing is a 1926 German silent film directed by Felix Basch and starring Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke, and Lotte Lorring.
24 September 1943
Thirteen people have gathered at Mayor Bartoš's. The company is uneasy about this number and therefore warmly welcomes the fourteenth guest, who is the new librarian Pavel Čtrnáctý.
25 November 1926
The fun-loving laundress Mieze spends a romantic evening with the womanizer and fashion designer Max, who, however, wants nothing to do with her the next day.
21 February 1919
The Swabian journeyman watchmaker Christoph Bühler is in love with Lorle, the daughter of his boss. One day, the factory owner Ferdinand Hausegger woos Bühler away, whereupon the young man seems to forget the Swabian girl.
04 July 1933
White slave traders kidnap a cabaret singer aboard a ship headed for South America,but they have not counted on her husband aboard a nearby coast guard cutter.
