Anna Held
Anna Held ( born March 8, 1873 in Warsaw; † August 2 or August 12, 1918 in New York City ) was an actress who is today mainly through its association with Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. known.
Life
Anna Held was born as the daughter of a French mother and a Jewish Germans in Warsaw, possibly five to eight years before her birth officially disseminated in March 1873. Poland as 1881 was affected by anti-Semitic pogroms, the family fled to Paris. There, Anna Held and her mother had to help support the family when his father got health problems. Anna Held worked occasionally as a street singer.
After her father's death in 1884, Anna Held moved with her mother to relatives in London. There she began her stage career. She was involved with Avram Goldfadn and Jacob Adler. After returning to Paris, she became known as Chanteuse in cafes. Habits like riding astride, as well as bike and car driving increased their awareness.
Around 1895, she married the players Maximo Carrera. This marriage was a part of the legitimacy of her daughter Liane († 1988), but they do not reared itself, on the other hand, they allowed her to convert to Catholicism and thus their origin to hide. In 1896 she appeared in, among others, the London Palace Music Hall. There, she was hired by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. for a Broadway production. For her performances in A Parlor Match they should get $ 1500 per week and Ziegfeld's publicity apparatus prepared her career in the U.S. skillfully before, so she was already celebrated their arrival on 15 September 1896 as Star. On September 21 In 1896 she made her debut in the U.S. in the Herald Square Theatre in New York. The song Will not You Come and Play With Me? became a hit; after the premiere of the horses to their carriage were unclamped and admirers who were possibly paid by Ziegfeld why they went in triumph through the city.
A hoax, the Ziegfeld brought into circulation, it made even more famous. Ziegfeld alleged namely, his star bathe daily in milk, but have a supply of sour milk received from a vendor who protested against this assumption now. The controversy over this alleged acidic - and unpaid - milk bath appeared repeatedly in the headlines. Another advertising idea Ziegfeld was to distribute, Anna Held had collected with her bike a runaway horse, captured and tamed this, so to save a human life.
In the following twelve years, Anna Held regularly performed in Ziegfeld productions.
Eventually divorced Carrera and announced their friends, look at them now as married with Ziegfeld. At an official marriage but it did not come, and later it came through Ziegfeld's financial abuse and its relationship to Lilliane Lorraine to a crisis in the relationship between Anna Held and Florenz Ziegfeld, who married in 1912 Billie Burke.
1897 was to see Anna Held in La Poupee, 1899 in Papa 's Wife, 1901 in The Little Duchess, 1903 in Mam'selle Napoleon, higgledy piggledy in 1904, 1906 in The Parisian Model and 1908 in Miss Innocence ( 1908). After they had separated in 1912 by Ziegfeld, she continued working as a vaudeville star. In 1916 she appeared in Follow Me on, a production of the Ziegfeld rival Shubert Brothers, the same year came the film Madame la Presidente out, in which she played a role.
In the last six months of her life Anna Held was suffering from cancer. She died at the Savoy Hotel in New York and was buried in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne in Westchester County.
Afterlife
Anna Held was in the 1936 film produced embodies The Great Ziegfeld by Luise Rainer. Her daughter taught 1976 Anna Hero Museum in San Jacinto one.