Mielziner family.

Artist Leo Mielziner (1869-1935) and his wife Ella McKenna Friend Mielziner (1873-1968), raised two sons, each of whom became prominent in the arts: Leo Jr. (1899-1962), a stage and screen actor and director who worked under the name Kenneth MacKenna, and Jo Mielziner (1901-1976), one of the most influential designers of theatrical scenery and lighting of the twentieth century.

The son of a rabbi, Leo Mielziner was born in New York on December 8, 1869. After the family resettled in Cincinnati, Ohio, Leo studied at the Cincinnati Art Museum Academy, and later in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1896 Leo married Ella McKenna Friend, born March 18, 1873 in Manchester, New Hampshire, of Anglo-Irish descent. Leo and Ella raised their two sons first in Europe, then in New York, where Leo took commissions as a portraitist for well-to-do clients. The couple spent their retirement years on Cape Cod, where Leo died in August of 1935. Ella died in 1968 at the age of 94.

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