Lotte Lenya

Lotte Lenya
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1962
Born
Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer

(1898-10-18)18 October 1898
Died27 November 1981(1981-11-27) (aged 83)
Occupation(s)Actress, singer
Years active1922–1980
Spouses
(m. 1926; div. 1933)
(m. 1937; died 1950)
(m. 1951; died 1957)
Russell Detwiler
(m. 1962; died 1969)
Richard Siemanowski
(m. 1971; sep. 1973)

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 English-language cinema, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a jaded aristocrat in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961). She also played the murderous and sadistic Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia with Love (1963).

  1. ^ Biography of Kurt Weill, Pickford Prod., Inc (unpublished biography 20 April 1945) Yale Music Library
  2. ^ Obituary Variety, December 2, 1981.