Lotte Lenya

She is entombed, with her first husband, in a mausoleum at the Mount Repose Cemetery, Haverstraw, New York. Kennedy Center Honors (1989). Lenya died in New York from cancer in 1981. Peabody Award: "Valentine". She was also the narrator in George Grosz' Interregnum (1960). Autobiography: "My Heart Belongs," Morrow (1976). and in some TV Films like:. Husband Richard Halliday dies, 1973.

Lenya appeared in a number of films, including:. Tony Award: "The Sound of Music". After 1957 death of George Davis, she married the artist Russell Detwiler in 1962, who died aged 44 in 1969. Tony Award, (later) Emmy Award: "Peter Pan". Armstrong improvised the line "Look out for Miss Lotte Lenya!" and added her name to the long list of Mack's female victims in the song for the English translation. Special Tony Award: "Annie Get Your Gun". She was present in the studio when Louis Armstrong recorded Weill's "Mack the Knife". Donaldson Award, NY Drama Critics Award: "One Touch of Venus".

The combination of singing and speaking called sprechstimme was devised by Weill to accommodate her voice. Daughter Heller Halliday. Lenya went on to record a number of songs from her time in Berlin, as well as songs from the American theatre, in a distinctive husky low voice. Married Richard Halliday 1940. In 1954 she won a Tony Award for her role as Jenny in Marc Blitzstein's English version of Die Dreigroschenoper, The Threepenny Opera.. They were divorced in 1936. After being coaxed back on stage after her husband's death, she appeared on Broadway in Barefoot in Athens and married writer George Davis. Their son is actor Larry Hagman, who once appeared with his mother in South Pacific, as a member of the chorus.

During World War II Lenya sang on stage and performed on Voice of America. In 1929, she married Ben Hagman. She divorced Weill in 1933, and remarried him in 1937: he died in 1950. Amongst the roles originally created by her were those of Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music. With the rise of Nazism in Germany, and being Jewish, and having become estranged from Weill, Lenya fled to Paris, France in March 1933, then on to the United States of America. Mary Martin (December 1, 1913 - November 3, 1990) was an American star of (mainly stage) musicals. After she accepted the part of Jenny in Die Dreigroschenoper in 1928, she was accepted into the local stage community and performed in a variety of musicals, especially those of Weill and his collaborator Bertolt Brecht. "In Performance at the White House, A Salute to Broadway" (1988) Television.

She moved to seek work in Berlin, Germany in 1921, where the following year she was seen by her future husband, the German composer Kurt Weill during an audition, although they did not meet properly until 1924, marrying him for the first time in 1926. "Legends!" (1986) National Tour. She moved to study in Zurich, Switzerland in 1914, taking up her first job at the Schauspielhaus. "Irving Berlin's America" (1986) Television. As a child of working class parents, Lenya wanted to be a dancer. "The Sound of American Music: Rodgers and Hammerstein" (1985) Television. Lotte Lenya (October 18, 1898 - November 27, 1981), singer and actor, born Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer, in Vienna, Austria. "Over Easy" (1981-1983, PBS, Host) Television.

The Gypsy in Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966). "Beverly Sills Farewell" (1981) Television. Mutter Courage in Brecht's Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (aka Mother Courage and her children) (1965). "Standing Room Only: Showstoppers" (1980) Television. Bertolt Brecht's Übungstücke für Schauspieler (aka Practice Pieces) (1964). "Valentine" (1979) Television/Film. the role of a masseuse in Semi-Tough (movie) (1977). "Bing Crosby, His Life and Legend" (1978) Television.

Emma Valadier in The appointment (movie) by Sidney Lumet (1969). "Do You Turn Sommersaults?" (1977) Broadway and Tour. the part of the lesbian villain Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia With Love (movie) (1963). "Together On Broadway" with Ethel Merman (1977). The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (movie) (1965) which won her a nomination for an Academy Award. "Jack Paar Special" (1972) Television. Pirate Jenny in Die Dreigroschenoper (aka The threepenny opera) (1931). "Mary Martin at Eastertime" (1966) Television.

"I Do! I Do!" (1966) Broadway, National Tour. "Mary Martin, Hello Dolly 'Round the World" (1966) Television. "Hello Dolly" (1965) Tour, London. "Jennie" (1963) Broadway.

"Bing Crosby Christmas Show" (1962) Television. "Peter Pan" (1960) Television. "Music with Mary Martin" (1959) Television. "Magic with Mary Martin" (1959) Television.

"The Sound of Music" (1959) Maria. "Annie Get Your Gun" (1957) Television. "Peter Pan" (1956) Television. "Hallmark Hall of Fame, Born Yesterday" (1956) Television.

"Ford Star Jubilee: Together With Music" (1955) Television. "Peter Pan" (1955) Television. "The Skin of Our Teeth" (1955) Broadway, Washington, DC, Paris. "Person to Person" (1954) Television.

"General Foods 25th Anniversary Show" (1954) Television. "Peter Pan" (1954) Broadway. "Main Street to Broadway" (1953) Film. "Ford 50th Anniversary Show" (1953) Television.

"Kind Sir" (1953) Broadway. "America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers" (1951) Television. "South Pacific" (1949) Nellie Forbush. "Annie Get Your Gun" (1947) National Tour.

"Night and Day" (1946) Film. "Lute Song" (1946) Broadway. "Pacific 1860" (1946) London. "One Touch of Venus" (1943) Broadway and Tour.

"True to Life" (1943) Film. "Happy Go Lucky" (1943) Film. "Star Spangled Rhythm" (1942) Film. "Birth of the Blues" (1941) Film.

"New York Town" (1941) Film. "Kiss the Boys Goodbye" (1941) Film. "Love Thy Neighbor" (1940) Film. "Rhythm on the River" (1940) Film.

"The Great Victor Herbert" (1939) Film. "Leave It To Me" (1938) Broadway.