Juliane Haid was born in
Vienna on 16 August 1895, the first child to Georg Haid (1864–1951) and Juliane Haid (1873–1939). She had two younger sisters,
Grit (1900– 1938), who also became an actress, and Johanna (1903–1964). Haid trained both as a dancer and singer and became the epitome of the
Süßes Wiener Mädel ("Sweet Viennese Girl") and a popular
pin-up throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Her first motion picture was a propaganda film made during the
First World War,
Mit Herz und Hand fürs Vaterland (1916). She worked for
UFA and, as a trained singer, easily made the transition to the sound era, appearing in
comedy films alongside Austrian and German stars such as
Willi Forst,
Bruno Kastner,
Georg Alexander,
Theo Lingen, and
Heinz Rühmann. Her first husband, Baron Fritz von Haymerle, helped her found her film company, Micco-Film. Having refused several offers from Hollywood, she left Germany for
Switzerland in 1942 "because of the regime, because everything was bombed, and because all the good directors had left". She married Carl Spycher and ended her film career. Spycher adopted Liane's son, Pierre (born 1940), from her second marriage to Hans Somborn. Her notable films include
Lady Hamilton (1921; her breakthrough role);
Lucrezia Borgia (1922);
The Csardas Princess (1927, based on the
operetta by
Emmerich Kálmán); and the
talkies
The Song Is Ended (1930) and
Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn (1936). She made her last film appearance in 1953. Haid died in Bern, Switzerland in 2000. ==Filmography==