Felicia Montealegre

Felicia Cohn Montealegre ( born February 6, 1922 in Santiago de Chile, Chile, † 16 June 1978 in East Hampton, New York) was a Chilean stage and television actress. From 1951 until her death she was married to Leonard Bernstein.

Life

Her father was Roy Cohn, the director of the copper smelter American Smelting and Refining Company ( ASARCO ) in Chile. Felicia Montealegre studied piano with Claudio Arrau in New York City and met Leonard Bernstein at a party know who gave Arrau 1946. Both got engaged, but the engagement was dissolved again and Felicia Montealegre had for several years a relationship with the Broadway and Hollywood actor Richard Hart, after his sudden death on January 2, 1951, she married Amber on September 9, 1951, with him three children (Jamie Anne Maria, Alexander Serge Leonard and Nina Maria Felicia ) had. She died of lung cancer, her tomb is next to that of her husband on the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Work

Montealegre had many television appearances, such as in 1950 in a TV adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, in which she played Nora. As a stage actress, she was 1976 and 1977 seen in the Broadway production of Pavel Kohout's Poor Murderer drama

As a spokeswoman Felicia Montealegre can be heard on two recordings that grossed her husband: In Bernstein's Kaddish Symphony and Debussy's The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastien. In Tom Wolfe's Radical Chic reportage she is one of the acting persons.