Lotte Lenya | |
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![]() Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1962 | |
Born | Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer 18 October 1898 |
Died | 27 November 1981 | (aged 83)
Occupation(s) | Actress, singer |
Years active | 1922–1980 |
Spouses |
(m. 1937; died 1950)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).