Lotte Lenya

Lotte Lenya (October 18, 1898 – November 27, 1981), singer and actor, born Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer, in Vienna, Austria. She is most well known for her performance as Jenny in Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, and some other Brecht-Weill plays. To a younger audience, she is known for her part as the lesbian villain Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia With Love.

TV films

• Bertolt Brecht's Übungstücke für Schauspieler (Practice Pieces) (1964)
• Mutter Courage in Brecht's Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (Mother Courage and Her Children) (1965)
• The Gypsy in Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966)

Narrator

She was the narrator in the documentary about the drawings of George Grosz, Interregnum (1960)

Related Topics:
George Grosz - Interregnum

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