An oral history interview with Paul Moor / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Donald Spoto, Los Angeles, 1986 August 19 : recording and transcript.

Lenya, Lotte

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Born in Austria, Lenya became an actress in Zürich, then moved to Berlin where she met and married Kurt Weill. They emigrated to the U.S. in 1935, where Lenya lived until her death a few months after this interview was recorded. From the description of An oral history interview with Lotte Lenya / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Alan Rich, New City, N.Y., 1981 : recording and transcript. (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison). WorldCat record id: 12258368...

Davis, George, 1906-1957

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George Davis began his career as a writer, publishing his only novel, The opening of a door, in 1931 while living in Paris. He returned to the U.S. shortly thereafter and began working as a fiction editor for various magazines, notably Harper's Bazaar and Mademoiselle, and exerted substantial influence on American taste and popular literary culture, "discovering" such writers as Truman Capote and Carson McCullers. During the 1940's, he and Gypsy Rose Lee established an artists' commune of sorts ...

Spoto, Donald, 1941-....

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Spoto was born June 28, 1941 in New Rochelle, NY; BA, Iona College, 1963; MA (1966) and Ph. D. (1970), Fordham Univ.; taught at New School for Social Research, NYC, 1975-86; began teaching at Univ. of So. California in 1987; visiting lecturer, British Film Institute, National Film Theatre, London, 1980-86; published biographical studies of filmmakers Stanley Kramer, Alfred Hitchcock, Preston Sturges, playwright Tennessee Williams, and actors Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Lotte Lenya, Laurenc...

Harris, Margo Liebes (German and American sculptor, born 1925)

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Moor, Paul, 1924-

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Journalist and critic who has written and edited in the fields of music and psychology. Met Lotte Lenya in Berlin in 1957 and remained a close friend until she died (1981). Now lives in the U.S. after about 35 years in Germany, and continues to write as a regular contributor to Opera News. From the description of An oral history interview with Paul Moor / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Donald Spoto, Los Angeles, 1986 August 19 : recording and transcript. (Paul, ...

Detwiler, Russell.

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Russell Detwiler (1925-1969) grew up in Pennsylvania. After serving in the U.S. Army in World War II, he pursued an education at Temple University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, among other schools. He became a painter and had several one-man shows and other exhibitions throughout the late 1950's and 1960's. In 1962 he married Lotte Lenya. His friends and clients included Vera Stravinsky, Jennie Tourel, Dr. David Protetch, Marianne Josephson, and Emanuel Marks. From th...

Weigel, Helene, 1900-1971

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