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((short description|American actress))
((More citations needed |date=December 2020))
((Infobox person
| name                  = Jane Novak
| image                 = Jane Novak by Witzel.jpg
| caption               = Novak, c. 1922
| birthname             = Johana Barbara Novak
| birth_date            = ((Birth date|1896|01|12))
| birth_place           = [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], U.S.
| death_date            = ((Death date and age|1990|02|03|1896|01|12))
| death_place           = [[Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California|Woodland Hills]], California, U.S.
| occupation            = Actress, author
| years_active          = 1913&ndash;1954
| spouse                = ((marriage|Frank Newburg|1915|1918|end=divorce))
| relatives = [[Eva Novak]] (sister)<br>[[Anne Schaefer]] (aunt)<ref name=Legends>((cite book|last=Brown|first=John W.|title=Missouri Legends: Famous people from the Show-Me State|year=2008|publisher=Reedy Press|pages=176, 177|location=St. Louis))</ref>
| children = 1
))
'''Jane Novak''' (born '''Johana Barbara Novak'''; January 12, 1896 – February 3, 1990) was an [[United States of America|American]] actress of the [[silent film]] era.

==Background==
Jane Novak was born Johana Barbara Novak in [[St. Louis, Missouri]] to [[Bohemia]]n immigrant Joseph Jerome Novak and his wife Barbara Medek. Joseph Novak died when Jane was still a child and Barbara was left to raise 5 children.<ref name="ReferenceB">The Independent, London, February 1990</ref> Her younger sister [[Eva Novak|Eva]] also became an actress.

Novak attended [[School Sisters of Notre Dame]] convent school in St. Louis,<ref name=Legends/> but ran away with a friend with whom she created a vaudeville act.<ref name="ReferenceB"/> Although she returned home, her aunt, actress Anne Schaefer, invited her to California where she began acting in [[motion pictures]] in 1913 at the age of 17.<ref name="ReferenceB"/> The actress began in a stage stock company with her uncle in St. Louis.<ref name="ReferenceB"/> Novak's career extended into the sound film medium, appeared in a total of 115 movies in her career.

==Career==
She appeared in a movie on her first day in Southern California, before there was a film studio in Hollywood. There she met Frank Newburg, who was, at the time, leading man to [[Ruth Roland]] at the [[Kalem Company|Kalem]] and [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|American Mutoscope and Biograph]] companies. Newburg took her to a studio in Santa Monica, California, where her aunt Anne Schafer was a popular star. Newburg and Novak later married in 1915((Citation needed |date=December 2020)) and had one daughter. However, the marriage was short lived, and the couple divorced in 1918.<ref name="ReferenceB" />

Novak endured as a performer, in part, by sacrificing sensational roles for roles as leading women in more wholesome films. Some actresses who were Novak's contemporaries quickly found stardom, yet were forgotten soon afterward, while she was considered an "old-fashioned girl." As a result, Novak, refused to work in films with other leading ladies. She played opposite [[Wallace Beery]], [[Tom Mix]], [[Hobart Bosworth]], [[Alan Hale, Sr.|Alan Hale]], [[Thomas Moore]], and [[Lewis Stone]]. At one time, she was engaged to marry [[Western (genre)|Western]] star [[William S. Hart]], but their marriage never took place. She made five films with Hart. 
[[File:Jane Novak Stars of the Photoplay.jpg|thumb|Publicity photo of Jane Novak from ''Stars of the Photoplay'' (1924)]]
Novak's movies often were based on outdoor stories. Some of these include ''[[Treat 'Em Rough (1919 film)|Treat 'Em Rough]]'' (1919), ''Kazan'' (1921), ''Isobel'' (1920), ''The River's End'' (1920), and ''The Rosary'' (1922). By March 1922, she had her own company and was under contract for five outdoor movies, with a salary at $1,500 per week. Aside from [[Mary Pickford]] and [[Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.]], Novak was the first film star to paid in four figures for a single movie. At this time, performers were only paid while a movie was shooting. An entire film was completed in three or four weeks.

[[File:Eva-novak.jpg|thumb|Novak's sister [[Eva Novak]]]]
Novak's last starring role was opposite [[Richard Dix (actor)|Richard Dix]] in the [[Technicolor]] production ''[[Redskin (film)|Redskin]]'' (1929). The movie was supposed to be with sound, but there was a contract dispute involving this being Dix's final film with [[Paramount Pictures]], so it was shot as a silent film. Novak's voice was good, but she made only a handful of pictures following the advent of sound. One was a World War II epic titled ''[[The Yanks Are Coming (1942 film)|The Yanks Are Coming]]'' featuring [[Max Rosenbloom|Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom]]. She also appeared in [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Foreign Correspondent (film)|Foreign Correspondent]]'' in 1940, having met him previously in the 1920s when making ''[[The Prude's Fall]]'' (1925).

In 1974, the former silent screen star published a cookbook titled ''Treasury of Chicken Cooking''. The volume is a collection of 300 recipes compiled by Novak over the years, all of them her own.

Novak's last appearance on camera was in 1988 for the documentary ''[[Harold Lloyd|Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius]]'' (1989) by [[David Gill (film historian)|David Gill]] and [[Kevin Brownlow]], and first screened on [[ITV Network|ITV]].

Jane Novak died in Woodland Hills, California of a stroke in 1990 at the age of 94.

==Partial filmography==
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* ''[[The Kiss (1914 film)|The Kiss]]'' (1914)
* ''[[A Little Madonna]]'' (1914)
* ''[[Willie Runs the Park]]'' (1915)
* ''[[Graft (1915 serial)|Graft]]'' (1915)
* ''[[Just Nuts]]'' (1915)
* ''[[From Italy's Shores]]'' (1915)
* ''[[The Hungry Actors]]'' (1915)
* ''[[The Iron Hand]]'' (1916)
* ''[[The Innocent Sinner]]'' (1917)
* ''[[Selfish Yates]]'' (1918)
* ''[[The Temple of Dusk]]'' (1918)
* ''[[Treat 'Em Rough (1919 film)|Treat 'Em Rough]]'' (1919)
* ''[[Wagon Tracks]]'' (1919)
* ''[[Behind the Door (film)|Behind the Door]]'' (1919)
* ''[[The Golden Trail (1920 film)|The Golden Trail]]'' (1920)
* ''[[The River's End (film)|The River's End]]'' (1920)
* ''[[The Great Accident]]'' (1920)
* ''[[The Barbarian (1920 film)|The Barbarian]]'' (1920)
* ''[[Roads of Destiny]]'' (1921)
* ''[[Three Word Brand (1921 film)|Three Word Brand]]'' (1921)
* ''[[Kazan (1921 film)|Kazan]]'' (1921)
* ''[[The Other Woman (1921 film)|The Other Woman]]'' (1921)
* ''[[The Snowshoe Trail]]'' (1922)
* ''[[The Rosary (1922 film)|The Rosary]]'' (1922)
* ''[[Thelma (1922 film)|Thelma]]'' (1922)
* ''[[Belle of Alaska]]'' (1922)
* ''[[Colleen of the Pines]]'' (1922)
* ''[[Divorce (1923 film)|Divorce]]'' (1923)
* ''[[Jealous Husbands]]'' (1923)
* ''[[The Man Life Passed By]]'' (1923)
* ''[[The Lullaby (1924 film)|The Lullaby]]'' (1924)
* ''[[Two Shall Be Born]]'' (1924)
* ''[[The Man Without a Heart]]'' (1924)
* ''[[The Prude's Fall]]'' (1924)
* ''[[The Blackguard]]'' (1925)
* ''[[The Substitute Wife (1925 film)|The Substitute Wife]]'' (1925)
* ''[[Lazybones (1925 film)|Lazybones]]'' (1925)
* ''[[Share and Share Alike]]'' (1925)
* ''[[The Lure of the Wild]]'' (1925)
* ''[[Whispering Canyon]]'' (1926)
* ''[[Lost at Sea (film)|Lost at Sea]]'' (1926)
* ''[[Closed Gates]]'' (1927)
* ''[[One Increasing Purpose]]'' (1927)
* ''[[Free Lips]]'' (1928)
* ''[[Redskin (film)|Redskin]]'' (1929)
* ''[[Ghost Town (1936 film)|Ghost Town]]'' (1936)
* ''[[Hollywood Boulevard (1936 film)|Hollywood Boulevard]]'' (1936)
* ''[[Gallant Lady (1942 film)|Gallant Lady]]'' (1942)
* ''[[The Yanks Are Coming (1942 film)|The Yanks Are Coming]]'' (1942)
* ''[[Here Comes Kelly]]'' (1943)
* ''[[Man of Courage]]'' (1943)
* ''[[Desert Fury]]'' (1947)
* ''[[Scared Stiff (1953 film)|Scared Stiff]]'' (1953) as Nightclub Patron
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==Sources==

* ''Modesto, California News'', "Jane Novak-She's Filmland's Old-Fashioned Girl", March 8, 1922, page 5
* ''Nevada State Journal'', "Silent Films Star Jane Novak Talks at Length About Her Past", Friday, November 22, 1974, page 37

==References==
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== External links ==
* ((commonscatinline))
* ((IMDb name|0636857))
* ((Find a Grave|8755790))
* [http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/person/2111/jane-novak Literature on Jane Novak]
* [http://www.things-and-other-stuff.com/movies/profiles/jane-novak.html Jane Novak in The Silent Collection by Tammy Stone]
* [https://immortalephemera.com/13591/what-happened-to-jane-novak/ Jane Novak – Silent Stars: Where Are They Now … 1932 Edition]
* [https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/novak-jane-1896-1990 Novak, Jane (1896–1990) | Encyclopedia.com]


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