Yona Landowska

Biography

Before the world knew her name, Yona Landowska had already faced the camera three times and left it smoldering. In 1915 she slipped between the polished lines of *The Marble Heart*, then pivoted to the boisterous generational clash of *Father and the Boys*—all before the year was out. The following season she returned as the enigmatic pulse of *Mister 44*, a 1916 release that sealed her brief but indelible stamp on silent-era celluloid.