- Her career began in Riga and Warsaw where she worked as a dancer. Then she was engaged by the Shinx Film in Warsaw and her breakthrough came when Friedrich Zelnik spotted her and engaged her to Berlin.
- She only took part in one talky in the 30's called "Anna und Elisabeth" (1933), after that she retired from the film business.
- The Swedish actress Sybil Smolowa (also Smolova) appeared in German as well as in Swedish movies.
- She was an Austrian-Czech actress and dancer and a star of the German and Swedish silent cinema of the 1910s and 1920s.
- Her final film was the lesbian themed Anna und Elisabeth/Anna and Elisabeth (1933).
- Her career began in the cities of Riga and Warsaw where she worked as a dancer.
- In Warsaw, Smolowa appeared for the first time for the film camera at the Sphinx Film studio. Actor-director Friedrich Zelnik spotted her there and brought the young girl to Berlin to appear opposite him in the film Seelen, die sich nachts begegnen/Souls who meet at night (Eugen Illés, 1915), produced by the Danish studio Atlantik. Smolowa played a rich girl that gets 'in shame' (pregnant). Happily she meets a student (Zelnik) who takes care of her and learns her to love.
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content