- The third film performer to earn more than $1000 for a single picture, following Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.
- Daughter, Virginia Rita
- The actress Jane Novak began her silent movie career already in 1915 where she appeared in many movies for Vitagraph.
- Because her aunt Anne Schaefer already was a well-known actress at Vitagraph, the doors were open for Jane Novak. She used the opportunity and became one of the popular actresses of the 10's.
- When the silent movie era was over, Jane Novak withdrew slowly. She only took part in two movies of the 30's - "Ghost Town" (1936) and "Hollywood Boulevard" (1936) - and in the 40's followed some appearances in the productions "Gallant Lady" (1942), "Man of Courage" (1943), "Desert Fury" (1947) and "Paid in Full" (1950).
- The actress began in a stage stock company with her uncle in St. Louis.
- Novak's movies often were based on outdoor stories. Some of these include Treat 'Em Rough (1919), Kazan (1921), Isobel (1920), The River's End (1920), and The Rosary (1922).
- 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 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.
- She also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent" in 1940, having met him previously in the 1920s when making "The Prude's Fall" (1925).
- Novak's last appearance on camera was in 1988 for the documentary Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (1989) by David Gill and Kevin Brownlow, and first screened on ITV.
- 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.
- Novak attended School Sisters of Notre Dame convent school in St. Louis, but ran away with a friend with whom she created a vaudeville act.
- She met Frank Newburg, who was, at the time, leading man to Ruth Roland at the Kalem and 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 and had one daughter. However, the marriage was short lived, and the couple divorced in 1918.
- Her aunt, actress Anne Schaefer, invited her to California where she began acting in motion pictures in 1913 at the age of 17.
- By March 1922, she had her own company and was under contract for five outdoor movies, with a salary at $1,500 per week.
- At one time, she was engaged to marry Western star William S. Hart, but their marriage never took place. She made five films with Hart.
- 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 featuring Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom.
- She appeared in a movie on her first day in Southern California, before there was a film studio in Hollywood.
- Novak's last starring role was opposite Richard Dix in the Technicolor production 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.
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