- Hardly remembered today, the dark-haired, wide-eyed Ressel Orla came to stardom quickly in the 1910s in Germany after her first major role in Die Firma heiratet (1914) (released in America as The Perfect Thirty-Six). With no offers coming in for stage work, her original vocational pursuit, she continued film work with much success. An expressive and beautiful woman with a dramatic Madonna-like face, she was a star for several years but fell out of popularity in the twenties. At the time of her death, she had fallen on hard times, was no longer acting, and was barely forty. She is undoubtedly remembered best for her performance as the treacherous Lio Sha in Fritz Lang's two part film series The Spiders (1919-20), one of her few performances that are widely available for viewing today.- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- The actress Ressel Orla already appeared in the early 10's in first movies.
- When she impersonated a dramatic role in the movie "Die Sünde" in 1918 she was also able to assert in this part of work and her reputation gain in more importance by the critics.
- Because of her great success she retired from the theater and dedicated to the new medium film.
- She began her career on stage in 1907 at the the Metropoltheater in Hannover, Germany.
- As an experienced theater actress and talented singer she surely would had been able to give an impetus in the 30's, but the destiny chose an other way. After a long illness she died at the age of 41.
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