Item #E26350 Lenya: A Life. Donald Spoto.

Lenya: A Life

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1989. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 371 pp. with index. Illustrated. A tight copy but with a rem. stripe top edge of text block; in generally fine dust jacket. Biography of Lotte Lenya (1898-1981), the extraordinary singer/actress of international acclaim whose career spanned six decades. Born into poverty in Vienna, Lenya became a pre-teenage prostitute before escaping to a fledgling career as an actress and dancer in Zurich. She married composer Kurt Weill, becoming both his muse and a performer in his collabrations with Brecht, including the original "Threepenny Opera" and "The Seven Deadly Sins". She moved from Germany to Paris in 1933 then to New York in 1935. Later in life she came to be seen as the living embodiment of Weimar Berlin, retiring form the sage in 1945 only to return to it after Weill's death in 1950. She would win a 1956 Tony award in a revival of "Threepenny Opera" and was also nominated for an Academy Award for the screen version of Tennessee Williams' "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" Very Good / very good. Item #E26350
ISBN: 0316807257

Price: $17.50

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