
Lotte Lenya
Actor · 1898 – 1981 · Vienna, Austria
Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer; 18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) 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 nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a jaded aristocrat in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961). She also played the murderous and 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.
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Movie7.1ActionThrillerAgent 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.
From Russia with Love
1963 · 3.5K votes
Movie5.4ComedyDramaA three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.
Semi-Tough
1977 · 60 votes
Movie6.9DramaRomanceAn aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
1961 · 38 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryTV MovieThis 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.
The Incredible World of James Bond
1965 · 2 votes
Movie8.0DramaTV MovieA collection of ten vignettes by Tennessee Williams offering various viewpoints on life, love, and death.
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
1966 · 1 votes
Movie5.9DramaMysteryLawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to suspect that his fashion model wife Carla is secretly one of Rome's highest paid call-girls.
The Appointment
1969 · 14 votes
Movie7.1MusicCrimeIn 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'.
Movie8.0MusicDocumentaryFilmmaker Larry Weinstein stages a wide range of performances in tribute to the compositions of Kurt Weill.
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
1994 · 1 votes
- Movie6.0Drama
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.
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980 · 3 votes
Movie7.0Ken 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."
Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill
1961 · 2 votes
Movie8.0DramaTV MovieA recording of the 1939 play "Mother Courage and Her Children" for German TV.
Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder - Eine Chronik aus dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg
Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War
1965 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DocumentaryTV MovieLotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh?
2021 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DocumentaryA 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.
The Exiles
1989 · 1 votes
Movie8.0An indelible portrait of Nazi brutality told through the powerful images of George Grosz' drawings. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
George Grosz' Interregnum
1960 · 1 votes
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TV6.8Talk ShowThe Merv Griffin Show
1962 · 12 votes
TV6.8Talk ShowThe Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · 22 votes
TV7.3DramaFamilyNET Playhouse is an American dramatic television anthology series produced by National Educational Television. NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET and was superseded by the Public Broadcasting Service. American television anthology series of wide range of genres, from history and drama, to fantasy, and science fiction. Fiction novels, stories, stage plays, fairytales, and historic events are dramatized in each episode.
NET Playhouse
1966 · 3 votes
- TVDocumentaryNews
TVCompanion programme to Gregory Porter's Popular Voices (2017) in which Gregory Porter introduces a selection of live performances culled from the BBC archives.