Dolly Haas


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Dorothy Clara Louise Haas (April 29, 1910September 16, 1994). Dolly Haas was a singer and an entertainer who often appeared on Broadway.

Dolly was born in Hamburg, Germany to Jewish parents[citation needed], Charles Oswald Haas, a bookseller of British origin[1], and Margarete Maria née Hansen. Her father was an accomplished actor in German cinema before moving to the United States[citation needed]. She was an important actress in German cinema in the 1930s as well.

Although she didn't appear in many U.S. films, she had a role in the high-profile Alfred Hitchcock film I Confess in 1953. She was a naturalized U.S. citizen.

She married her second husband, famed caricaturist Al Hirschfeld in Baltimore, Maryland in 1943 and they remained happily married until her death from ovarian cancer on September 16, 1994 in New York, New York at the age of 84. They had a daughter, Nina (b. 1945). Her husband lived to age 99, dying in 2002 of natural causes.

Filmography

  • 1930 Eine Stunde Glück
  • 1930 Dolly macht Karriere
  • 1931 Der Ball
  • 1931 Der brave Sünder (aka The Upright Sinner)
  • 1931 Liebeskommando
  • 1932 Ein steinreicher Mann (aka A Tremendously Rich Man)
  • 1932 Es wird schon wieder besser
  • 1932 Scampolo, ein Kind der Straße
  • 1932 So ein Mädel vergisst man nicht (aka A Girl You Don't Forget)
  • 1932 Großstadtnacht
  • 1933 Die kleine Schwindlerin
  • 1933 Das hässliche Mädchen
  • 1933 Kleines Mädel - großes Glück
  • 1933 Der Page vom Dalmasse-Hotel
  • 1934 Ein Mädel mit Tempo
  • 1934 Girls Will Be Boys
  • 1935 Warum lügt Fräulein Käthe?
  • 1936 Broken Blossoms
  • 1936 Spy of Napoleon
  • 1949 Riviera
  • 1953 I Confess
  • 1954 The Fugitive (Serie Armstrong Circle Theatre)
  • 1956 Regarding File Number 4356 (from the Studio One TV series )


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