Weakened version of the opera. For a long time unobtainable, since the fall of the DDR again in the circuit. Lotte Lenya plays Jenny instead of the part of Polly on the stage so she sings only one song in this film. Carola Neher is Poly in the film and Valeska Gert is Mrs Peachum
creation of a new song at Hollywood Gardens, NY
Sophie Tucker (January 13, 1884--February 9, 1966) was a singer and comedian, one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first third of the 20th century.
She was born Sophia Kalish to a Jewish family in Czarist Russia. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was an infant, and settled in Hartford,
Paul Robeson (April 9, 1898 -- January 23, 1976) was a multi-lingual American actor, athlete, bass-baritone concert singer, writer, civil rights activist, Spingarn Medal winner, and Lenin Peace Prize laureate
He gives a verry good impression of how Chaliapin (tired of singing, Chaliapin gave terrible performances in the 1930's)and Tauber (painfull arms, he suffered of rheumatoïd arthritis) behaved during recitals. The Tauber is fantastic
![Sir Edward Elgar, 1931 \"Land of hope & glory\"](http://img.youtube.com/vi/FpDP9VTamZY/2.jpg "Sir Edward Elgar, 1931 \\"Land of hope & glory\\"")
![Fréhel, \"Telle qu\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/NJqku91PYwA/2.jpg "Fréhel, \\"Telle qu\")
![\"O sole mio\", 1947 Peerce](http://img.youtube.com/vi/rjQ7lz_I7k0/2.jpg "\\"O sole mio\\", 1947 Peerce")
![Merci Mon Ami, Zarah Leander \"Première\" 1936 Vienna](http://img.youtube.com/vi/ja6g5Ye4hYY/2.jpg "Merci Mon Ami, Zarah Leander \\"Première\\" 1936 Vienna")
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