Lee Parry

Lee Parry ( born January 14, 1901 in Munich as Charlotte Mathilde Benz, † January 24, 1977 in Bad Tolz ) was a German actress and singer.

Life

Lee Parry is the daughter of the then popular opera singer, actor and variety show director "Dad Benz " from Munich. Early age of 16 she traveled, at that time when Hilde Benz, to Berlin and was discovered by director Richard Eichberg, whom she would marry later and committed for the film. Your silent film career began in 1919 under the stage name Lee Parry and went end of the 1920s seamlessly in sound film exposures over. Besides working in film, as it was mainly to see from the outset in lead roles, Lee Parry also appeared on stage ( as in the Rudolf Nelson revue we were lucky ), and on the radio on and sang additionally popular shellac records.

Your domain was the "light box" and comedies and farces, but Lee Parry had certainly also in dramatic films success, so Monna Vanna in by Richard Eichberg (1922 ) and Regine, the tragedy of a woman by Erich Waschneck (1927 ). In 1935, Lee Parry went almost completely back into private life, but played in 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War 2, again in a French production, Adieu Vienne, with. In the 1950s she married then the director of the Deutsches Theater in Buenos Aires, Siegmund Breslauer. They moved in 1956 to South America, where they celebrated a theater comeback and made ​​guest appearances at various theaters. Occasionally, they also came to visit back to her hometown of Munich.

Filmography

Discography (selection)

  • A little love for me. From the movie A little bit of love for you. Text and music Friedrich Hollaender, 1931 YouTube
  • A little longing. From the play Phaea. Words and Music by Friedrich Hollaender YouTube
  • What is the smoking chimney. From the movie Not a single day without you, Music by Hans May, Ernst text Neubach, 1933 - YouTube
  • The window, spring is here. Viennese Waltz from the film Johann Strauss, Hans May by Johann Strauss
  • When a man is in love. Viennese Waltz from the film Johann Strauss, Hans May by Johann Strauss
  • So you kisses only in Vienna. Viennese Waltz from the talkies: A bit of love for you, Music by Paul Abraham, text Armin L. Robinson and Robert Gilbert
  • In St. Pauli, in Altona. From the play Phaea. Text and music Friedrich Hollaender
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