Ruby Keeler

See also: Other Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. She is entombed, with her first husband, in a mausoleum at the Mount Repose Cemetery, Haverstraw, New York. Some of her better known films include:. Lenya died in New York from cancer in 1981. She has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6730 Hollywood Blvd. She was also the narrator in George Grosz' Interregnum (1960). Ruby Keeler died of cancer in Rancho Mirage, California and was interred in the Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Orange, California. and in some TV Films like:.

Her first "show-business" job was as a chorine, working in a speakeasy for the Prohibition-era hostess Texas Guinan. Lenya appeared in a number of films, including:. She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. After 1957 death of George Davis, she married the artist Russell Detwiler in 1962, who died aged 44 in 1969. Ruby Keeler, born Ethel Keeler, (August 25, 1910 - February 28, 1993), was an actress, singer, and dancer. 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. Sweetheart of the Campus - (1941). She was present in the studio when Louis Armstrong recorded Weill's "Mack the Knife".

Mother Carey's Chickens - (1938). The combination of singing and speaking called sprechstimme was devised by Weill to accommodate her voice. Ready, Willing and Able - (1937). 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. Colleen - (1936). In 1954 she won a Tony Award for her role as Jenny in Marc Blitzstein's English version of Die Dreigroschenoper, The Threepenny Opera.. Shipmates Forever - (1935). After being coaxed back on stage after her husband's death, she appeared on Broadway in Barefoot in Athens and married writer George Davis.

Go Into Your Dance - (1935). During World War II Lenya sang on stage and performed on Voice of America. Flirtation Walk - (1934). She divorced Weill in 1933, and remarried him in 1937: he died in 1950. Dames - (1934). 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. Footlight Parade - (1933). 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.

Gold Diggers of 1933 - (1933). 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. 42nd Street - (1933). 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).