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3	Lotte Lenya (formerly Lenja), (18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981), born Karoline Blamauer, was an Austrian singer and actress who worked in Germany during the [[UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic Weimar era]] then in the USA. She was married to Music/KurtWeill (twice) and appeared in many of Creator/BertoltBrecht's plays.
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5	She originated the parts of Jenny in ''Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera'', Anna in ''Theatre/TheSevenDeadlySins'', and Fräulein Schneider in ''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}''. She did not originate the part of Jenny in ''Theatre/TheRiseAndFallOfTheCityOfMahagonny'', though one song had to be specially recomposed for her. She also performed alongside Creator/PeterLorre in ''Frühlings Erwachen''.
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7	In 1933, like many other left-leaning artists and folks who had married a Jewish person, she emigrated from Germany during the rise of UsefulNotes/{{Nazi\|Germany}}sm and moved to the United States, where she resolved to speak and write in English almost exclusively from that point on.
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9	To modern audiences, she's probably most famous for her role as SPECTRE operative Rosa Klebb in the second ''Film/JamesBond'' film, ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''. She was famously name-checked by Music/LouisArmstrong during his recording of "Mack the Knife", when he saw her standing near him in the studio, and she is also a star on the constellation map on the back cover of Music/FrankZappa's ''Music/OneSizeFitsAll'' (1975).
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11	Her signature song is "Music/PirateJenny", and her performance of the song ended up strongly influencing Music/NinaSimone, Music/BobDylan, Music/AmandaPalmer, Creator/LarsVonTrier, and even Creator/AlanMoore when he wrote ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''.
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13	Lenya's correspondence with Kurt Weill was published in book form, titled ''Speak Low (When You Speak Love)''. A play based on the collected letters, ''Lovemusik'', opened on Broadway in 2007.

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