[2] Thea Červenková was born to a butcher's family living on Klicperova (Záhřebská) Street in Vinohrady in Prague.
One version says that she shot together with her later frequent co-worker cinematographer Josef Brabec (1890–1977) a movie Láska a dřeváky (Love and Wooden Shoes) as early as 1914.
[1] Another version is that Červenková and Josef Brabec founded together the film company Slavia in June 1918.
After the coup for Czechoslovakian independence in October 1918, Červenková sold Slavia to the Austrian firm Sascha-Film but remained being director of the company.
The most probable version (according to Brabec's words) is that Červenková got her first job in the film business in Pragafilm company as a scriptwriter and editor of subtitles.
[1] In the same year she directed further short comedies or grotesques: Monarchistické spiknutí (The Monarchist Conspiracy), Zloděj (The Thief) and Byl první máj (On the First of May).
In Zloděj Červenková also played a small role of a housemaid[1][2] who was drugged by Baron, whose intention was to have free access to her landlady.
Filmový ústav produced Červenková's films: Babička (The Grandmother, 1921), Košile šťastného člověka (Happy Man Shirt, 1921), Ty petřínské stráně/ Bludička (The Slopes of Petřín, 1922) and Paličova dcéra (The Arsonist's Daughter, 1923).
Shaw (Rytíř bledé růže/ Knight of Light Rose, 1921) and Václav Wasserman (Kam s ním?/ Where to with Him?, 1922).
But Červenková's contribution to the early Czechoslovak film business is obvious – at first, as the journalist who enforced the perception of moviemaking as part of creating a national identity and also was one of the pioneers who adapted literary and theatre works for movies.