Correspondence with Lotte Lenya, George Davis, and Anna Krebs, and Lenya mementos, 1956-1981.

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...

Guarneri, Victor Carl, 1920-

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A New York antiques and art dealer, Victor Carl (as he was known to friends) met Lotte Lenya through her second husband, George Davis, and became one of her closest friends to her death. From the description of Correspondence with Lotte Lenya, George Davis, and Anna Krebs, and Lenya mementos, 1956-1981. (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison). WorldCat record id: 86164807 ...

Krebs, Anna 1593-1616

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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 ...

Guarneri, Victor Carl

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