The Mummy
1932
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A German-speaking Banat Swabian, Zita Johann was born Elizabeth Johann in the village of Deutschbentschek (near Timișoara), Austria-Hungary.The village is now part of Romania. Her father, a hussar officer named Stefan Johann, emigrated with his family to the United States in 1911.. She debuted on Broadway in 1924 and made her first film appearance in D.W. Griffith's 1931 film The Struggle.
Zita Johann. Actress: The Mummy. Zita Johann was born on 14 July 1904 in Temesvar, Austria-Hungary [now Timisoara, Timis, Romania]. She was an actress, known for The Mummy (1932), The Sin of Nora Moran (1933) and Tiger Shark (1932). She was married to Bernard Edward Shedd (Schetnitz), John McCormick and John Houseman. She died on 20 September 1993 in Nyack, New York, USA.
Sep 30, 1993 · Zita Johann, a stage and film actress who played Boris Karloff's love interest in "The Mummy," died on Friday at Nyack Hospital in Nyack, N.Y. She was 89 and lived in Orangeburg, N.Y. The cause ...
Zita Johann. Actress: The Mummy. Zita Johann was born on 14 July 1904 in Temesvar, Austria-Hungary [now Timisoara, Timis, Romania]. She was an actress, known for The Mummy (1932), The Sin of Nora Moran (1933) and Tiger Shark (1932). She was married to Bernard Edward Shedd (Schetnitz), John McCormick and John Houseman. She died on 20 September 1993 in Nyack, New York, USA.
Mar 8, 2024 · Zita Johann was an admirer of D.W. Griffith and in 1931 finally made her film debut in The Struggle, about a man struggling with alcoholism - partially inspired by Griffith’s own struggle with alcoholism. This is a fun fact, I guess, a little off topic, but I just love it. This film was partially funded by a tax refund that DW Griffith had invested in 1929 and that did well despite the Great ...
Aug 16, 2020 · Zita Johanna as Ankh-es-en-amon. She was born in Austria-Hungary in 1904, and her family came here when she was 7. Johann acted on Broadway; made her film debut in a D.W. Griffith film, “The Struggle” (1931); and acted opposite Edward D. Robinson in “Tiger Shark” (1932). She was once married to John Houseman of the Orson Welles troupe.
Zita Johann. Elisabeth Johann was born on the 14th of July, 1904 in the village of Deutschbentschek, Austro-Hungary, now Timişoara in Romania. Her father, hussar officer Stefan Johann, emigrated to the United States with his family in 1911, and young Elisabeth’s journey to the screen began. She starred in high school plays, first appearing ...
Sin Of Nora Moran, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) The Opiate Quieted Her Body Complex narrative as Claire DuBrey, wife of the governor, has come to her brother the D-A (Alan Dinehart) with letters from a lover who, he admits, was the troubled title character (Zita Johann), who is, as time leaps, comforted by Sarah Padden, then as a child (Cora Sue Collins) by Father Ryan (Henry B. Walthall), in ...
Johann, Zita (1904–1993)Hungarian-born stage and film actress. Born near Temesvar, Hungary (now Timisoara, Rumania), on July 14, 1904; died of pneumonia at Nyack Hospital, Nyack, New York, on September 24, 1993; her father had been an officer in the emperor's Hussars; attended Bryant High School on Long Island; married John Houseman; married twice more.
Mar 7, 2024 · by Susan King Nobody put Zita Johann in a corner. Especially not Hollywood. She was a Broadway baby who even turned down the chance to star in the 1929 silent/talkie version of “Show Boat” to appear on the Great White Way in the 1928 drama “Machinal,” which also featured a very young Clark Gable. She also marched to the beat of her own drum. Johann was a self-proclaimed mystic who ...
