biography
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Lenya, Lotte
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originally Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer
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pronunciation:
[laynya]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1900–81)
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| biography:
| Actress and cabaret singer, born in Vienna, Austria. She studied drama and ballet at Zürich, lived in Berlin from 1920, and came to represent the spirit of that decadent era. In 1926 she married Kurt Weill, starring in many of his works, including The Little Mahagonny (1927) and The Threepenny Opera (1928, filmed 1931). They fled to Paris in 1933, then to New York City, where she made many stage appearances, and after Weill's death she became the public custodian of his legacy. Later stage appearances included Brecht on Brecht (1962) and Mother Courage (1972), and her rare film roles included From Russia with Love (1963) and Semi-Tough (1977). |
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