Jadwiga Smosarska
Her name alone still causes cinemaniacs’ heart rates to speed up even though most of her films no longer exist. Before the war, delighted audiences awarded her the title of ‘Queen of the Polish screen’ several times. She played over twenty roles in films of the best directors during the years between the First and Second World Wars. She debuted in an unfinished, mute Aleksander Hertz’s (1919) Dla szczęścia [‘For Happiness’] based on Stanisław Przybyszewski’s play. She’d play gagsters’ girlfriends, prostitutes with a good heart, unhappy suicidal women, but also persistent in love, noble and graceful girls. She played in historic and crime films, as well as melodramas and comedies.
After the war, while abroad she worked in Polish minorities’ groups and returned to Poland a year before her death.
Magda Sendecka
Selected filmography
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1936
JADZIA
reż. Mieczysław Krawicz
