Lotte Lenya
- Acting
- October 17, 1898 · Vienna, Austria
- November 27, 1981
Biography
Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer; 18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States. 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lotte Lenya, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- One Hat is One Hat · Songs
- Dreadful Penny Dreadful
- Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh? · Self
- Popular Voices at the BBC · Self
- September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill · Self
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America
- The Exiles · Self
- No. 18: Mahagonny · Self
- Semi-Tough · Carla Pelf
- The Appointment · Emma Valadier
- The Dick Cavett Show · Self
- Ten Blocks on the Camino Real · The Gypsy
- NET Playhouse
- The Incredible World of James Bond · Self
- Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War · Mutter Courage
- From Russia with Love · Rosa Klebb
- The Merv Griffin Show · Self
- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone · Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
- Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill · Self
- Treffpunkt New York · Self
- George Grosz' Interregnum · Narrator
- The 3 Penny Opera · Jenny