Trivia

Sister of actor Grit Haid.

Liane Haid wasn't able to work for the film during the wartime, still she refused offers from the USA and intensified her work for the theater.

For Paramount she appeared in alternate language versions of their productions such as Die Männer um Lucie (1931, Alexander Korda), a German version of Laughter (1930, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast) with Nancy Carroll.

Liane Haid's first husband -Baron Fritz von Haymerle- let build a whole film studio in Vienna especially for her and founded a production company.

In Switzerland she married Dr. Carl Spycher. It was her third marriage. Their son is the jazz musician Pierre Spycher.

The actress Liane Haid was the first Austrian movie star in film history.

Having refused several offers from Hollywood, she escaped from Nazi Germany to Switzerland in 1942 "because of the regime, because everything was bombed, and because all the good directors had left".

She was employed by the Ufa as one of the first actresses which appeared in sound movies.

She already appeared in operas and operettas when she was a child.

Also the transition to the sound film, which required a completely different acting way, she mastered very well.

She became a popular pin-up and appeared again opposite Conrad Veidt in Lucrezia Borgia/Bride of Vengeance (1922, Richard Oswald) and Die Brüder Schellenberg/The Brothers Schellenberg (1926, Karl Grune) with Lil Dagover. Also popular were the operettas Im weißen Rößl/The White Horse Inn (1926, Richard Oswald) with Max Hansen, and Die Csardasfürstin/The Csardas Princess (1927, Hanns Schwarz) opposite Hungarian star Imre Ráday. The later was an adaptation of the operetta by Emmerich Kálmán.

She spent her old age together with her son who took care of his mother to the end in his small flat.

She played a part in the British production Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife (1936, Basil Dean).

She had already become a popular opera and operetta singer and dancer before she made her first film appearance.

In 1942 she emigrated to Switzerland and got married with the Swiss doctor Carl Spycher with who she traveled a lot to the tropics.

Certainly her singing lessons had a favorable effect for this new medium and she was also put into action for roles which had to sing too. Among others she sang the hit "Adieu, mein kleiner Gardeoffizier".

In the 20's she rose to one of the most popular actresses. She acted together with all great actors of this time and made film history with the movies "Der Roman eines Dienstmädchens" (1921), "Lady Hamilton" (1921), "Lucrezia Borgia" (1922), "Die Brüder Schellenberg" (1926) and "Die Czardasfürstin" (1927).

She attracted great attention at the Kaiserhof that she was engaged as a dancing partner of archduke Max.

Her sister Grit Haid was also a well-known actress, she died in a plane crash in 1938.

She was the epitome of the Süßes Wiener Mädel (Sweet Viennese Girl), and from the mid 1910's on she made close to a hundred films.

Her debut was a propaganda film made during the First World War, Mit Herz und Hand fürs Vaterland/With Heart and Hand for the Fatherland (1915, Jacob Fleck, Luise Fleck).

She had two younger sisters, Grit, who also became an actress, and Johanna (1903-1964).

When she was 97 he received at the Rosenhügelgala 1992 in Vienna the Rosenhügel-Preis.

In her almost 40 years of film work, she made around 90 films and was the partner of actors such as Conrad Veidt, Willi Forst, Gustav Fröhlich and Hans Albers.

Haid trained both as a dancer and singer and became the epitome of the Süßes Wiener Mädel ("Sweet Viennese Girl").

She married Carl Spycher and ended her film career. Spycher adopted Liane's son, Pierre (born 1940), who was the result of her second marriage to Hans Somborn.

Liane Haid's stage career began as a ballet dancer at the theater.

In 1969 she received the film ribbon in gold (Das Filmband in Gold) for her services to German film.

In the movie 'Das Lied ist aus' she sang the the song that became famous: Adieu mein klein Gardeoffizier (1930) composed by Robert Stolz.

In the early 1930s she was at the height of her popularity. In 1933 alone, she appeared in nine feature films.