Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (died 1981)

Lotte Lenya

Austrian singer and actress (1898–1981)

Lotte Lenya 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…