1. Jane Novak was born Johana Barbara Novak in St Louis, Missouri to Bohemian immigrant Joseph Jerome Novak and his wife Barbara Medek.
10 Facts About Jane Novak
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Joseph Novak died when Jane was still a child, and Barbara was left to raise 5 children.
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Jane Novak appeared in a movie on her first day in Southern California, before there was a film studio in Hollywood.
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Newburg and Jane Novak later married in 1915 and had one daughter.
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Jane Novak endured as a performer, in part, by sacrificing sensational roles for roles as leading women in more wholesome films.
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Jane Novak played opposite Wallace Beery, Tom Mix, Hobart Bosworth, Alan Hale, Thomas Moore, and Lewis Stone.
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Jane Novak's last starring role was opposite Richard Dix in the Technicolor production Redskin.
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Jane Novak's voice was good, but she made only a handful of pictures following the advent of sound.
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Jane Novak appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent in 1940, having met him previously in the 1920s when making The Prude's Fall.
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Jane Novak died in Woodland Hills, California of a stroke in 1990 at the age of 94.