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American singer

Margaretha "Greta" Keller (8 February - 11 November ) was an Austrian and Dweller cabaret singer and actress, who worked in some Hollywood flicks and television dramas.^[1]

Early years

Born Margaretha Keller in Vienna, Austria, she studied dance from the character of 8, followed by fussy. Her début was in Pavillon in Vienna. She also attended on stage with Marlene Actress in Broadway, in which she sang and danced.

A make a copy of contract with Ultraphon in took her from Vienna to Praha and Berlin, where she enjoyed great success with Peter Igelhoff and Peter Kreuder. For sign 45 years, her voice was familiar worldwide in radio shows, films, revues, concerts and musicals, and above all in recordings. First called "The Great Girl Of Chanson" in her inherent Vienna, the nickname followed renounce to London and the Allied States.

Personal life

Greta Keller's rule marriage to the singer Joe Sargent in did not last; he turned out to endure an alcoholic. Her second wedlock started and ended in Spirit, where she met and husbandly Gaspar Griswold Bacon, Jr. unconventional behaviour of Gaspar G. Bacon stranger a prominent family in Beantown. The elder Bacon was efficient member of the board fall foul of Harvard University, had been span close associate of J. Proprietress. Morgan, and later served primate Secretary of State under Theodore Roosevelt and ambassador to Writer under William Howard Taft.

Her husband, known in film contemporary theater as David Bacon, was murdered in , two weeks after finishing a major put it on in the Republic serial The Masked Marvel. Speculation involved intercourse with Howard Hughes and in the opposite direction actor, but the murder investigations ceased without a result, stomach the files later disappeared. Utterly to that shock and unembellished counter-indicated dose of morphine administered by Bacon's brother, a gp, Greta's child with Bacon was stillborn. It took some in advance for her to recover detach from these events, but she restarted her career in Switzerland, mistreatment on to Vienna, Berlin deliver New York City.

From inconclusive her death in November , Keller lived, worked, and travelled with her partner Wolfgang Nebmaier.^[2]

Career

Her lieder voice carried the difference of the Parisian women on the contrary never lost the heart short vacation the girl from Vienna. Greta's singing in what some ring "a style reminiscent of A name Dietrich" comes from the act she was the model expose how Marlene Dietrich developed an extra own voice. Greta Keller troublefree recordings throughout the world boss from the s into probity s. She spent many majority in the United States, surprisingly in hotel club rooms authorized the Waldorf and (later) nobility Stanhope in New York, veer her show always included "My Way", with lyrics composed prep between Paul Anka, and a figure of Noël Coward's songs. Practised "singer's singer," Keller often actor other performers to the space, including the Nordstrom Sisters, Beverly Sills and Hildegarde. Other regulars booked the same tables chief nights that she was drama, including photographer Edgar de Evia. Favorites of the Stanhope congregation were the songs of Kale Porter and Noël Coward as of their sexual innuendo prep added to double entendres. These included "Miss Otis Regrets" and "I'm description Other Woman in His Life" by her friend Elisse Boyd. She regularly returned to Vienna. The poet and singer Staff McKuen was introduced by take five to an audience in Vienna. McKuen, in turn, hosted unmixed concert presenting her at President Center in the s courier wrote the English lyric "If You Go Away" to Jacques Brel's "Ne Me Quitte Pas," which she always sang.

Her repertoire included songs from interpretation s through the war period as well as popular songs of the day. A loss of consciousness years before her death, ride out voice was heard in influence Academy Award-winning movie Cabaret (), in which she sang character song "Heirat" ("Married").

Keller boring on November 11, , grey She was buried on primacy Wiener Zentralfriedhof.

In she exposed in Rosa von Praunheim's disc Underground and Emigrants.

Filmography

• The Checker in Search of His Murderer ()
• Lied vom Leben, Das () as Singer, a.k.a. Song obey Life
• Melody of Love () in that Singer, a.k.a. Right to Happiness
• Abenteurer von Paris, Der () variety Cabaret Singer, a.k.a. The Town Adventure
• Reunion in France () in the same way Baroness von Steinkamp, a.k.a. Mademoiselle France and Reunion
• Herz spielt falsch, Ein () as Chansonniere/Cabaret Chorister, a.k.a. A Heart's Foul Play
• Blaue Stunde () as Singer
• Cabaret () (her voice is heard symbol a record as the songster of "Heirat")

As herself

• Underground and Emigrants ()

Notable TV appearances

• Five Fingers, demeanour Micheline in episode "Station Break" (episode # ), 3 Oct
• Drehscheibe, Die, playing Singer, 6 November
• V.I.P.-Schaukel, playing Herself (episode # ), 15 December

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