Jane Novak (January 12, 1896 - February 3, 1990) was a silent film actress from St. Louis, Missouri. Events 475 - Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Events 1112 - Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry uniting the fortunes of those two states Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) Her career extended into the sound film medium. She began acting in motion pictures in 1913 at the age of 17. Jane had roles in 115 movies in her career. The actress began in a stage stock company with her uncle in St. Louis.
She appeared in a movie on her very first day in southern California, before there was a film studio in Hollywood. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. She met Frank Newburg who was leading man to Ruth Roland in silent films at Kalem Company and Biograph. Ruth Roland ( August 26 1892 - September 22 1937) was an American stage and film actress and Film producer. The Kalem Company was an American Film studio founded in New York City in 1907 by George Kleine, Samuel Long, and Frank J The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1928 Frank took her to a studio in Santa Monica, California, where her aunt, Anne Schafer, was a big star. Newburg and Novak later married.
Miss Novak endured as a performer, in part, by sacrificing sensational roles for roles as leading women in more wholesome films. Some actresses who were Novak's contemporaries quickly found stardom, yet were forgotten soon afterward. Jane was considered an old-fashioned girl. She refused to work in films with other leading ladies. She played opposite Wallace Beery, Hobart Bosworth, Alan Hale Sr., Thomas J. Moore, and Lewis Stone. Wallace Beery ( April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American Academy Award -winning actor arguably best known Hobart Bosworth (b August 11 1867, Marietta Ohio - d December 30 1943, Glendale California) was an Alan Hale Sr (born Rufus Edward Mackahan, February 10, 1892 - January 22, 1950) was an American movie Actor Thomas J Moore ( May 1, 1883 - February 12, 1955) was an actor in the United States born in Fordstown Crossroads, County Meath Lewis Shepard Stone ( November 15, 1879 - September 12, 1953) was an American actor Jane was engaged to marry William S. Hart, the first great cowboy star. William Surrey Hart ( December 6, 1864 &ndash June 23, 1946) was an American Silent film Actor, Screenwriter She made five films with him.
Miss Novak's movies were often based on outdoor stories. Some of these include Kazan (1921), Isobel (1920), The River's End (1920), and The Rosary (1922). By March 1922 the actress had her own company and was under contract for five outdoor movies. Her salary was $1,500 per week. Aside from Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Jane was the first film star to paid in four figures for a single movie. Mary Pickford ( April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979) was an Academy Award -winning Canadian motion picture Douglas Fairbanks ( May 23 1883 – December 12 1939) was an American Actor, Screenwriter, director At this time performers were only paid while a motion picture was shooting. An entire film was completed in three or four weeks.
Jane's last starring role was opposite Richard Dix in Redskin (1929). Richard Dix ( July 18, 1893 – September 20, 1949) was an American Motion picture Actor who achieved popularity The movie was supposed to be with sound but there was a contract dispute involving this being Dix's final film with Paramount Pictures. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. So it was made without sound. Miss Novak's voice was good but she made only a handful of pictures following the advent of sound. One was a pre-World War II epic entitled The Yanks Are Coming. It starred Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom. Max Everitt Rosenbloom, known as Slapsie Maxie (born September 6, 1903, in Harlem, New York City – died March 6,
In 1974 the former silent screen star published a cookbook entitled Treasury of Chicken Cooking. The volume is a collection of 300 recipes compiled by Novak over the years, all of them her own.
She was the sister of Eva Novak and died in Woodland Hills, California of a stroke in 1990. Eva Novak ( 14 February, 1898 &ndash 17 April, 1988) was an American Film actress, being quite popular during the Woodland Hills is a district in the City of Los Angeles, California, United States.
References
- Modesto, California News, Jane Novak-She's Filmland's Old-Fashioned Girl, March 8, 1922, Page 5. Modesto is the County seat of Stanislaus County in the US state of California.
- Nevada State Journal, Silent Films Star Jane Novak Talks At Length About Her Past, Friday, November 22, 1974, Page 37. Nevada ( is a state located in the western region of the United States of America.
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