Lotte Lenya
Also Known As: Lotte Lenja, Karoline Blamauer, Karoline Blamauer Weill, Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lotte Lenya (18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian singer and actress. In the German-speaking and classical music world she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language film she is remembered for her Academy Award-nominated role in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) and as the 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
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Birthday: October 17, 1898
Age: 126 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: November 27, 1981
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From Russia with Love
Overview: Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-10
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Semi-Tough
Overview: A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-18
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Overview: Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off to a holiday in Rome for his health. He suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Mrs. Stone stays in Rome. She leases a magnificent apartment with a view of the seven hills from the terrace. Then the contessa comes calling to introduce a young man named Paolo to her. The contessa knows many presentable young men and lonely American widows.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-28
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America
Overview: The story of Kurt Weill 's relationship with the American popular theatre. During his years in exile on Broadway, the composer of Mack the Knife and The Alabama Song, who personified decadent Berlin, found a new life in New York, creating such standards as September Song and Speak Low. Director Barrie Gavin describes the film as "the history of an artist ... struggling to write music which could have real meaning for the society he had just joined." Weill is remembered by the conductor Maurice Abravanel and the actor Burgess Meredith and there are extracts from several of his works.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-31
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The 3 Penny Opera
Overview: In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.
Genres: Music Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-02-18
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September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
Overview: Filmmaker Larry Weinstein stages a wide range of performances in tribute to the compositions of Kurt Weill.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-25
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Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill
Overview: Ken Russell directed a short document of German actress (and widow of famed composer Kurt Weill) Lotte Lenya performing many of Weill's best known compositions for BBC TV series "Monitor."
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-21
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Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh?
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-03-14
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The Incredible World of James Bond
Overview: This promotional film was aired on American television on 26 November 1965, one month before the release of Thunderball (1965). Narrated by Alexander Scourby, the 48 minute documentary aired as a one hour special. It included footage of the filming at Silverstone Racetrack, Northamptonshire and of the fight aboard the Disco Volante at Pinewood Studios; media coverage of Martine Beswick, Luciana Paluzzi and Claudine Auger; and archive footage of Ian Fleming at 'Goldeneye', Jamaica.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-26
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Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War
Overview: A recording of the 1939 play "Mother Courage and Her Children" for German TV.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-07-24
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Best Ever Bond
Overview: Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
Genres: Documentary Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-22
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The Appointment
Overview: Lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to suspect that his fashion model wife Carla is secretly one of Rome's highest paid call-girls.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-22
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No. 18: Mahagonny
Overview: Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1929) for over ten years and considered it his magnum opus. The film was shot from 1970 to 1972 and edited for the next eight years. The “program” of the film is meticulous, with a complex structure and order. The Weill opera is transformed into a numerological and symbolic system. Images in the film are divided into categories— portraits, animation, symbols and nature— to form the palindrome P.A.S.A.N.A.S.A.P. The film contains invaluable cameos of important avant-garde figures such as Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, and Jonas Mekas, intercut with installation pieces from Robert Mapplethorpe’s studio, New York City landmarks of the era, and Smith’s visionary animation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-13
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George Grosz' Interregnum
Overview: An indelible portrait of Nazi brutality told through the powerful images of George Grosz' drawings. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Overview: A collection of ten vignettes by Tennessee Williams offering various viewpoints on life, love, and death.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-07
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The Exiles
Overview: A chronicle of the rescue of oppressed intellectuals and artists from Europe before the outbreak of World War II. It studies the cultural and intellectual impact of this emigre population on American life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-24
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Brecht vs. Pabst: The Transformation of The Threepenny Opera
Overview: The documentary traces the tragic story of the "Threepenny Opera" from stage to screen and ultimately to the bitter lawsuit between Bertolt Brecht and the film producers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-17
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