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Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer; 18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse, [1] and actress, long based in the United States. [2] In the German-speaking and classical music world, she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her first husband, Kurt Weill .
In 1956, Lotte Lenya won a Tony Award for her role as Jenny, the only time an off-Broadway performance has been so honored, in Blitzstein's somewhat softened version of The Threepenny Opera, which played Off-Broadway at the Theater de Lys in Greenwich Village for a total of 2,707 performances, beginning with an interrupted 96-performance run in ...
James's wife, Tilly Losch, was a ballerina who James described as having a striking resemblance to Weill's wife, Lotte Lenya. [2]: 206 Because James knew that Weill was going to write for Lenya, he included language in the contract commissioning the work requiring that his wife, Losch, dance opposite her lookalike. [3]
There is so much to fall in love with here: Connery’s brawl with Robert Shaw aboard the Orient Express, Lotte Lenya’s sadistic Svengali Rosa Klebb, Daniela Bianchi’s naive fatalism, a cool ...
Semi-Tough is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston, Lotte Lenya, and Bert Convy. It is set in the world of American professional football. The plot involves a love triangle between the characters portrayed by Reynolds, Kristofferson, and ...
The original production featured Jill Haworth (left) as Sally Bowles, Joel Grey (center) as the Emcee, and Lotte Lenya (right) as Fräulein Schneider. The musical opened on Broadway on November 20, 1966, [ 47 ] at the Broadhurst Theatre , transferred to the Imperial Theatre and then the Broadway Theatre before closing on September 6, 1969 ...
Colonel Rosa Klebb is a fictional character, the main antagonist in the James Bond 1957 novel and 1963 film From Russia with Love, in which she is played by Lotte Lenya.She was a Soviet counter-intelligence operative until being discharged and joining SPECTRE.
Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang will announce the nominations for the 97th Academy Awards. The two actors will come together on Thursday for a live presentation from the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn ...