1. Anna Sten began her career in stage plays and films in the Soviet Union, then traveled to Germany, where she starred in several films.
14 Facts About Anna Sten
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Anna Sten's performances were noticed by film producer Samuel Goldwyn, who brought her to the United States with the aim of creating a screen personality to rival Greta Garbo.
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Anna Sten continued to act occasionally until her final film appearance in 1962.
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In Kiev in the middle of the 1920s, she married entertainer and variety actor Boris Anna Sten and took his stage name as her own.
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Anna Sten received her education at Kyiv State Theatre College, worked as a reporter and simultaneously played in Kyiv Maly Theater, attended classes at the studio theater where she worked within the Stanislavsky System.
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In 1926, after completing her studies at Kiev theater school, Anna Sten was invited by Ukrainian film director Viktor Turin to appear in his film Provokator, based on the book by Ukrainian writer Oles Dosvitnyi.
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Anna Sten was discovered by the Russian stage director and instructor Konstantin Stanislavsky, who arranged an audition for her at the Moscow Film Academy.
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Anna Sten went on to act in other plays and films in Ukraine and Russia, including Boris Barnet's comedy The Girl with a Hatbox.
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Anna Sten poured a great deal of time and money into Nana, Sten's first American film, a diluted version of Emile Zola's 19th-century novel.
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Anna Sten continued making films in the United States and England, but none were successful.
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Anna Sten had an uncredited bit in the Frenke-produced Heaven Knows, Mr Allison and a full lead in The Nun and the Sergeant, her final film.
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Anna Sten died on November 12,1993, in New York City at the age of 84.
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Anna Sten was married to film producer Eugene Frenke, who flourished in Hollywood after following his wife there in 1932.
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Anna Sten had a daughter Anya Sten, who was a student at the Monticello School in Los Angeles in the early 1930s.