Kay Kendall

Kendall's life is explored in "The Brief, Madcap Life of Kay Kendall," written by Eve Golden, Kim Kendall, and Kim Elizabeth Kendall (University Press of Kentucky, 2002). She is entombed, with her first husband, in a mausoleum at the Mount Repose Cemetery, Haverstraw, New York. Before her marriage to Harrison, Kendall had a romantic relationship with Sydney Chaplin, a son of Charlie Chaplin. Lenya died in New York from cancer in 1981. She succumbed to her illness on September 6 the following year, soon after completing the movie "Once More with Feeling", starring opposite Yul Brynner. She was also the narrator in George Grosz' Interregnum (1960). In 1958, Kendall won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Les Girls, probably the best-known film of her career. and in some TV Films like:.

Harrison was married to actress Lilli Palmer at the time, but when he learned Kendall had been diagnosed with myeloid leukemia from her doctor, he divorced Palmer and married Kendall, never revealing to her the reason for her failing health. Lenya appeared in a number of films, including:. Later she starred opposite Rex Harrison in the comedy The Constant Husband (1955), and an affair soon followed. After 1957 death of George Davis, she married the artist Russell Detwiler in 1962, who died aged 44 in 1969. She co-starred with Clark again in Dance Hall (1950), and was featured in a quick succession of forgettable films before gaining fame in "Genevieve" (1953). 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. Her first major screen role was in the Sid Field-Petula Clark musical London Town (1946), notable for being one of the costliest flops in British film history. She was present in the studio when Louis Armstrong recorded Weill's "Mack the Knife".

Her father was Terry Kendall, a vaudevillian. The combination of singing and speaking called sprechstimme was devised by Weill to accommodate her voice. Her maternal grandmother was Marie Kendall, a musical-comedy star for her vivacious personality and diction while singing. 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. She was born Kay Justine Kendall McCarthy on May 26, 1927 in Withernsea, a coastal resort in eastern England. In 1954 she won a Tony Award for her role as Jenny in Marc Blitzstein's English version of Die Dreigroschenoper, The Threepenny Opera.. Kay Kendall (1927-1959) was a British actress. After being coaxed back on stage after her husband's death, she appeared on Broadway in Barefoot in Athens and married writer George Davis.

During World War II Lenya sang on stage and performed on Voice of America. She divorced Weill in 1933, and remarried him in 1937: he died in 1950. 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. 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.

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. She moved to study in Zurich, Switzerland in 1914, taking up her first job at the Schauspielhaus. As a child of working class parents, Lenya wanted to be a dancer. Lotte Lenya (October 18, 1898 - November 27, 1981), singer and actor, born Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer, in Vienna, Austria.

The Gypsy in Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966). Mutter Courage in Brecht's Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (aka Mother Courage and her children) (1965). Bertolt Brecht's Übungstücke für Schauspieler (aka Practice Pieces) (1964). the role of a masseuse in Semi-Tough (movie) (1977).

Emma Valadier in The appointment (movie) by Sidney Lumet (1969). the part of the lesbian villain Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia With Love (movie) (1963). The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (movie) (1965) which won her a nomination for an Academy Award. Pirate Jenny in Die Dreigroschenoper (aka The threepenny opera) (1931).