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Anny Ondra (born Anna Sophie Ondráková; 15 May 1903 – 28 February 1987) was a Czech film actress. She began her career in 1920 and appeared in Czech, German, Austrian, French and English films. In 1933, she married German boxing champion Max Schmeling .
Anny Ondra was a Polish-Czech-Austrian-German-French singer and a film and stage actress. As a child she lived in Prague, where her father was a colonel in the Austro-Hungarian army. After graduating from convent school in Prague, she studied to be an actress with Professor Bor.
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Anny Ondra (May 15 1903 – February 28 1987) was a Czech film actress. She was born Anna Sophie Ondráková in Tarnów, Galicia, Austria–Hungary, now Poland. She began her career in 1920 and appeared in Czech, German, Austrian, French and English films.
Nov 5, 2023 · Enter Anny Ondra as the thoroughly modern Fifi, a thrill seeker who views the world and everything in it as her plaything. She drives like a maniac, works out with a speedball, puffs a stogie like a captain of industry, and requires a platoon of maids for her toilette.
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Anny Ondra was a popular and talented actress who made over 90 films in Czechoslovakia and abroad. She married German boxer Max Schmeling, who refused to collaborate with Nazis and saved Jewish children.
Trained as a dancer, Polish-born actress Anny Ondra began her career in 1919, in the Czechoslovakian film Woman with Small Feet, and quickly gained popularity in both comic and serious roles. During the 1920s, she formed a production company with director-producer Karel Lamac, whom she also married.
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Anny Ondra grew up in Prague and was an extra at Svandovo Divadlo as a school girl. Film producer and director Gustav Machatý discovered her for the leading role as "The Lady with the Small Foot" in the comedy "Dama s malou nožkou", directed by Jan Stanislav Kolár and Přemsyl Pražský.
