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Lotte Lenya
Vienna, Austria
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 State…
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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.
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2026
One Hat is One Hat
Movie Songs
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2025
Dreadful Penny Dreadful
Movie
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2021
Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh?
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2017
Popular Voices at the BBC
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1994
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
Movie Self
- 1992
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1989
The Exiles
Movie Self
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1980
No. 18: Mahagonny
Movie Self (voice)
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1977
Semi-Tough
Movie Carla Pelf
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1969
The Appointment
Movie Emma Valadier
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1968
The Dick Cavett Show
TV show Self - Guest
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1966
NET Playhouse
TV show
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1966
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Movie The Gypsy
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1965
The Incredible World of James Bond
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1965
Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War
Movie Mutter Courage
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1963
From Russia with Love
Movie Rosa Klebb
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1962
The Merv Griffin Show
TV show Self
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1961
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Movie Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
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1961
Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill
Movie Self
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1961
Treffpunkt New York
TV show Self
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1960
George Grosz' Interregnum
Movie Narrator
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1931
The 3 Penny Opera
Movie Jenny
