Zita Johann

Actress

Female

Born Jul 14, 1904

Hometown Timişoara

Died Sep 17, 1993

Death Place Nyack, New York

Zita Johann was an American actress, best known for her role as Princess Ankhesenamón in Karl Freund's 1932 film version of The Mummy, co-starring with Boris Karloff. A Banat German, she was born Elisabeth Johann in the village of Deutschbentschek, Austria… Read More

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John Houseman
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Critic's Choice
NYTimes - Jul 22, 2008

VAMPYR THE MUMMY The first weeks of 1933 found two distinguished horror movies competing for attention. In New York, Karl Freund's film ''The Mummy,'' starring Boris Karloff as an ancient Egyptian priest brought back to desiccated life, had its premiere at the Mayfair in Times Square, drawing ''crowds that clicked past the box office,'' according
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The Week Ahead: April 24 30; Film
NYTimes - Apr 24, 2005

In 1933, a year before Hollywood began to strictly uphold ''the sanctity of the institution of marriage'' and crack down on ''lustful kissing, lustful embracing, suggestive postures and gestures'' (marriage and lust apparently being mutually exclusive), Warner Brothers tried to slip its terrifically sordid melodrama ''Baby Face'' past the censors.
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For Best Building In A Supporting Role...
NYTimes - Apr 19, 2000

Art heists, first dates, encounters with the undead; museums have served as backdrops to these and other movie scenes over the last century. Here is a sampling. 1932 The Mummy Boris Karloff has the title role, playing Im-Ho-Tep, an Egyptian priest whose eternal slumber is interrupted by pesky archaeologists. He escapes, turning up years later
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David Manners, 98; Menaced On Screen By Lugosi
NYTimes - Jan 03, 1999

David Manners, who starred in Hollywood films in the 1930's and played the hero in Tod Browning's 1931 ''Dracula'' and other classic horror movies of that day, died on Dec. 23 in the health center of a retirement community in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 98. Almost a decade ago, Mr. Manners modestly told a film historian that horror films were his
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CHILDHOOD

1904 Birth Born on July 14, 1904.

1911 6 Years Old A Banat German, she was born Elisabeth Johann in the village of Deutschbentschek (near Temesvar), Austria-Hungary (now Timişoara, Romania). Her father, a hussar officer named Stefan Johann, emigrated with his family to the United States in 1911.

TEENAGE

1924 19 Years Old She debuted on Broadway in 1924 and made her first film appearance in D. W. Griffith's 1931 film The Struggle.

TWENTIES

1929 24 Years Old After seven films, she quit to work in theater, starring with John Houseman, to whom she was married 1929-1933, and with Orson Welles. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1986 82 Years Old Johann married three times. She made her last film appearance in the 1986 horror film Raiders of the Living Dead.

1993 89 Years Old She died in 1993 at age 89 in Nyack, New York. … Read More

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