Liane Haid was a prima ballerina, dancer, singer, stage and film
actress. As a child, she studied voice and dancing and played at the
Viennese Open Ballet. She worked in Budapest and Vienna as a dancer. On
stage, she was in Berlin and Vienna. She also made close to a hundred
movies - silents and talkies. She was the first female star of Austria.
She was married three times. The last one was Swiss Dr. Carl Spycher,
with which she had one son, the jazz musician, Pierre Spycher. She
lived with her family near Bern, Switzerland, where she died at the age
of 105 years young.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Rudi Polt / rudipolt@aol.com
Liane Haid wasn't able to work for the film during the wartime, still she refused offers from the USA and intensified her work for the theater.
For Paramount she appeared in alternate language versions of their productions such as Die Männer um Lucie (1931, Alexander Korda), a German version of Laughter (1930, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast) with Nancy Carroll.
Liane Haid's first husband -Baron Fritz von Haymerle- let build a whole film studio in Vienna especially for her and founded a production company.
In Switzerland she married Dr. Carl Spycher. It was her third marriage. Their son is the jazz musician Pierre Spycher.