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Hedda Vernon (born Hedwig Klara Kemp; 27 October 1888 – 1961) was a German actress, screenwriter, and film producer. She was a prominent star of the early Weimar Republic, and had her own film production company.


Early life

Hedwig Klara Kemp was born on 27 October 1888 to Karl Martin Friedrich Kemp (1849–1901), the owner of a brewery, and Pauline Auguste Karoline Kemp (née Koball, 1855–1935), a housewife. She had three brothers and four sisters.


Career

Vernon was hired in 1912 by the German Bioscope as an actress. She made her screen debut in 1912 in the
silent film A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, w ...
''Die Papierspur'' (The Paper Trail), directed by
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. The following year she acted in the Vitascope films ''
Menschen und Masken ''People and Masks'' () is a 1913 German silent film directed by Harry Piel and featuring Max Auzinger, Hubert Moest, Hedda Vernon, and Ludwig Trautmann in the lead roles. A sequel was also released in the same year, '' People and Masks Part 2''. ...
'' (People and Masks) and '' Menschen und Masken – 2. Teil'' (People and Masks Part 2), directed by
Harry Piel Heinrich Piel (12 July 1892 – 27 March 1963), known professionally as Harry Piel, was a prolific German actor, film director, screenwriter, and film producer who was involved in over 150 films. Piel became a director in 1912, turning out suc ...
. She also worked in other films directed by Piel and collaborated with Max Obal until 1914. Some of her early films are ''The Struggle for the Heritage'' (1912), '' The Brown Beast'' (1914), and ''The Iron Cross'' (1914). In 1914 she founded her own production company, Hedda Vernon Films, in
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and produced her own films for the Hedda Vernon series, including the self-directed ''The Yellow Grimace'' (1914) and ''Hedda Vernon's Stage Sketch'' (1916). She also acted in several
Eiko Film Eiko Film was a German film production company of the silent era. It was established in 1912 by the producer Franz Vogel and swiftly became one of Germany's more important companies. Having initially produced its films at the Rex Film studios in ...
productions until the end of World War I, mainly under the direction of her husband
Hubert Moest Hubert Moest (December 3, 1877 to December 5, 1953) was a German film director, writer, producer, and actor. Early life and career Moest was the son of the sculptor Richard Moest. He attended high school in Cologne, an art school and worked as a ...
, who founded his own production company, Moest Production, in 1919. Vernon wrote the screenplay for two Moest Production films, ''The Red Shoes'' (1917) and ''The Dead Secret'' (1918). She also acted in the company's 1920 silent film ''The Women House of Brescia'', which was rejected by the
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on grounds of
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depicted in the film. In the silent film ''Zofia'' (released 1915), she played the role of a 15-year-old girl, although she was almost 29 years old at the time. In the 1920s, interest in Vernon subsided since new actresses were in demand. She worked from 1920 to 1921 with Harry Piel in the film series ''The Headless Horseman''. She also took many supporting roles and acted in ''The Despisers of Death''(1920) and ''The Sun of St. Moritz'' (1923). The last known film starring Vernon was ''Between Two Women'', which appeared in cinemas in 1925. Overall, Vernon acted in 70 silent films from 1912 to 1925.


Personal life

Vernon's first marriage was to Ernst Heinrich Emil Heese on 29 December 1909. They divorced, and she remarried in 1913 to the director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
Hubert Moest Hubert Moest (December 3, 1877 to December 5, 1953) was a German film director, writer, producer, and actor. Early life and career Moest was the son of the sculptor Richard Moest. He attended high school in Cologne, an art school and worked as a ...
. They divorced, and she married a third time on 10 September 1917 to actor
Ernst Hofmann Ernst Karl Heinrich Hofmann (7 December 1880 – 27 April 1945) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * '' The White Roses'' (1916) * '' Dr. Hart's Diary'' (1917) * '' Countess Kitchenmaid'' (1918) * '' Ikarus, the Flying Man ...
. Vernon was married to golf teacher Andreas Anjo Lacinik when she died in München in 1961 at the age of 73.


Selected filmography

* '' The Iron Cross'' (1914) * ''
His Coquettish Wife ''His Coquettish Wife'' (German: ''Seine kokette Frau'') is a 1916 German silent film directed by Hubert Moest and starring Hedda Vernon, Erich Kaiser-Titz and Reinhold Schünzel.Bock & Bergfelder p.433 Cast * Hedda Vernon * Erich Kaiser-Titz * R ...
'' (1916) * '' Blonde Poison'' (1919) * ''
During My Apprenticeship ''During My Apprenticeship'' () is a 1919 German silent drama film directed by Hubert Moest and starring Hedda Vernon, Reinhold Schünzel, and Wilhelm Diegelmann. It is based on the nineteenth century novel '' From My Farming Days'' by Fritz ...
'' (1919) * ''
The Women House of Brescia ''The Women House of Brescia'' () is a 1920 German-language silent film directed by Hubert Moest. The film's alternative name was ''The House of Pillory''. The film was considered highly controversial for the depiction of prostitution. The film ...
'' (1920) * '' Jim Cowrey is Dead'' (1921) * ''
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'' (1921) * '' The Sun of St. Moritz'' (1923) * ''
The Woman from the Orient ''The Woman from the Orient'' () is a 1923 German silent film directed by Wolfgang Neff and starring Oskar Marion, Fritz Greiner and Hedda Vernon.Krautz p. 112 The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Schroedter. Cast * Oskar ...
'' (1923)


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vernon, Hedda 1888 births 1925 deaths German silent film actresses Silent film screenwriters 20th-century German actresses German women screenwriters Film people from Berlin 20th-century German screenwriters Actresses from Berlin