German actress, writer and producer Hedda Vernon (1866-?) appeared in more than 60 films of the early silent period. She made the drama Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg/Where there is a will, there is a way (Hubert Moest, Richard Wilde, 1918) for the Eiko Film studio in Berlin. Rotophot made a series of six sepia cards for the film in the Film Sterne series.
German postcard in the Film Sterne series by Rotophot, no. 560/1. Photo: Eiko Film. Hedda Vernon in Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg (Hubert Moest, Richard Wilde, 1918).
German postcard in the Film Sterne Series by Rotophot, no. 560/2. Photo: Eiko Film. Hedda Vernon in Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg (Hubert Moest, Richard Wilde, 1918) with right back Ernst Hofmann.
German postcard in the Film Sterne series by Rotophot, no. 560/3. Photo: Eiko Film. Hedda Vernon in Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg (Hubert Moest, Richard Wilde, 1918).
In Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg/Where there is a will, there is a way (Hubert Moest, Richard Wilde, 1918), Hedda Vernon plays Gerda, a girl from a shady inn.
Gerda is surrounded by evil people, but she experiences goodness, betters her life and manages to marry well.
The film was scripted by Richard Wilde, and based on a story by Richard Skowronnek. Wilde codirected the film with Hubert Moest, Vernon's then-husband, who directed her in dozens of films in the later 1910s.
In addition to Vernon, the other main actors were Ernst Hofmann (Heinz), Olga Engl, Marie von Bülow, Kurt Walden, and Ernst Gross. Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg premiered in November 1918 at the Berlin Tauentzien Palast.
Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg was censored in Germany as not permitted to juveniles. As the postcards show the film's plot contained theft by children and adults alike, this may have been the cause.
German postcard in the Film Sterne series by Rotophot, no. 560/4. Photo: Eiko Film. Hedda Vernon in Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg (Hubert Moest, Richard Wilde, 1918). The seated woman is Olga Engl, the man could be Kurt Walden or Ernst Gross.
German postcard in the Film Sterne series by Rotophot, no. 560/5. Photo: Eiko Film. Hedda Vernon in Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg (Hubert Moest, Richard Wilde, 1918).
German postcard by Rotophot in the Film-Sterne series, no. 560/6. Photo: Eiko Film. Hedda Vernon in Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg (Hubert Moest, Richard Wilde, 1918). The woman on the right is Olga Engl.
Sources: The German Early Cinema Database, Filmportal.de and IMDb.
German postcard in the Film Sterne series by Rotophot, no. 560/1. Photo: Eiko Film. Hedda Vernon in Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg (Hubert Moest, Richard Wilde, 1918).
German postcard in the Film Sterne Series by Rotophot, no. 560/2. Photo: Eiko Film. Hedda Vernon in Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg (Hubert Moest, Richard Wilde, 1918) with right back Ernst Hofmann.
German postcard in the Film Sterne series by Rotophot, no. 560/3. Photo: Eiko Film. Hedda Vernon in Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg (Hubert Moest, Richard Wilde, 1918).
The girl from a shady inn
In Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg/Where there is a will, there is a way (Hubert Moest, Richard Wilde, 1918), Hedda Vernon plays Gerda, a girl from a shady inn.
Gerda is surrounded by evil people, but she experiences goodness, betters her life and manages to marry well.
The film was scripted by Richard Wilde, and based on a story by Richard Skowronnek. Wilde codirected the film with Hubert Moest, Vernon's then-husband, who directed her in dozens of films in the later 1910s.
In addition to Vernon, the other main actors were Ernst Hofmann (Heinz), Olga Engl, Marie von Bülow, Kurt Walden, and Ernst Gross. Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg premiered in November 1918 at the Berlin Tauentzien Palast.
Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg was censored in Germany as not permitted to juveniles. As the postcards show the film's plot contained theft by children and adults alike, this may have been the cause.
German postcard in the Film Sterne series by Rotophot, no. 560/4. Photo: Eiko Film. Hedda Vernon in Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg (Hubert Moest, Richard Wilde, 1918). The seated woman is Olga Engl, the man could be Kurt Walden or Ernst Gross.
German postcard in the Film Sterne series by Rotophot, no. 560/5. Photo: Eiko Film. Hedda Vernon in Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg (Hubert Moest, Richard Wilde, 1918).
German postcard by Rotophot in the Film-Sterne series, no. 560/6. Photo: Eiko Film. Hedda Vernon in Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg (Hubert Moest, Richard Wilde, 1918). The woman on the right is Olga Engl.
Sources: The German Early Cinema Database, Filmportal.de and IMDb.
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