Trivia

She was a surviving passenger when a plane piloted by Lothar von Richthofen -- brother of Manfred von Richthofen -- experienced engine failure and crashed on 4 July 1922. Von Richthofen was killed in the crash. Fern's director Georg Bluen, also a passenger, died the next day.

Fern was an Allied spy in World War I.

When the USA entered World War I, Fern Andra became looked upon as an enemy and was suspected to be a spy because she was born in the USA. In order to make an end to these rumors she got married with the Prussian baron Friecrich von und zu Weichs which was killed in the war a short time later.

Next to Henny Porten and Asta Nielsen she was one of the most popular and best-known actresses in German silent films of the 1910s.

She remarried Ian Keith the second time because there was a question about the legality of the first ceremony in 1932.

From 1928 she worked in the UK and the US, later expanding her range to include radio and television.

In 1922 Fern Andra survived an air crash where her companion Lothar von Richthofen was killed and in 1924 she got married with the middleweight boxer Kurt Prenzel - events which were thoroughly exploited by the press.

In Berlin she met Max Reinhardt, who gave her acting lessons.

During her engagements from London to the Berliner Wintergarten she got in contact with the film business.

Fern Andra was also aware of how to promote her movies and herself. She was so to speak a pioneer of "Making-Of" trailers in which she reported about accidents during the shooting and the work behind the scenes.

Fern Andra often used her appropriated talents of acrobatic during her circus time and put it in action for her movies where the audience could admire her daring and courage.

The movie "Genuine" infuriated great arousal at that time that's why Fern Andra acted in front of the camera with a directly on her body painted costume by the artist César Klein.

Born into a circus family she already made her entrance at the age of four with a tightrope act on the stage, one year later she appeared at a theater with the play 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.

Fern Andra was married four times; all of the unions were childless.

Father: William Andrews.