La Jana

La Jana was born on Feb 24, 1905 in Austria-Hungary. La Jana's big-screen debut came with Die weisse Geisha directed by Valdemar Andersen in 1926.

La Jana was the stage name of the brunette Viennese-born actress and exotic dancer Henriette 'Henny' Hiebel. She was trained as a ballerina for ten years and first performed at the Frankfurt Kinderoper at the age of eight. Of boyishly slim build, she appeared on stage in cabaret in 1921. Soon after, she was reputedly discovered for the screen by the director