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- Birth nameRosette Herta Rosenthal
- Jane Bess was born on November 28, 1891 in Poznan, Poland. She was a writer, known for Die Erbschaft von New York (1919), Sklaven des Kapitals (1919) and Die Sklavenhalter von Kansas-City (1920). She died in March 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
- She went to Paris in 1937 where she was detained. Finally she was deported to the KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 where she was murdered in the same year.
- Privately Jane Bess was very sporty. She played tennis, liked to ride and loved fast cars.
- She wrote many scripts for the then popular criminal and adventure movies and she became a big name. She created among others the figure of the detective Mortens who appeared in half a dozen movies as well as the female detective Madge Henway.
- With the rise of the National Socialists she emigrated to the Netherlands where her last movie as a screenwriter was realised with "De kribbebijter" (1935).
- She began her film career in 1919 and she became one of the most active female screenwriter of her time.
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