- The actress Martha Novelly already appeared on the stage from 1904 and acted at different theaters in the next years, from 1914 also in Berlin.
- In 1914 she made her film debut with the productions "General von Berning" (1914) and "Um Liebe und Ehre" (1914).
- Her film career lasted till the beginning of the 20's.
- From 1914 she performed in Berlin at the Lustspielhaus.
- Between 1916 and 1918 she was a leading film actress in serious, dramatic films.
- Just like many of her fellow stage actors in Berlin, she started a film acting career during the First World War.
- At age 15 she debuted on the stage in 1904 in Lübeck. Afterwards she acted in Flensburg, Oldenburg, Frankfurt (Oder), Chemnitz, Nürnberg and Stuttgart.
- While she was absent from the film set in 1915, in 1916 Novelly had the female lead in the Harry Piel adventure film Unter heisser Zone, with Mogens Enger in the lead, and with Preben Rist and Viktor Janson as co-stars. The story dealt with a captain (Enger) hunting for a precious South-African diamond, stolen by a Dutch swindler (Rist) and his American accomplice (Novelly). Shots were taken in Berlin, the Hamburg Zoo and aboard the ship Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria. Until the end of the First World War it was Piel's most ambitious production and announced Piel's post-war specialization of adventure films with wild animals. The film contained several spectacular scenes, including a lion hunt, a car falling into an abyss, the explosion of a kettle, a chase on a ship, and an explosion of a bridge just before a luxury train arrives, causing only the locomotive to drop down.
- Few years after her marriage in 1918 Martha Novelly ended her short film career.
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