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Where is style? Where is skill? Where is forethought?

by | 5:15 pm | Aug 30, 2007

Yes, another YouTube posting, but this one is something very special indeed. Legendary Zarah Leander is seen in a few moments from her 1975 triumph as Madame Armfelt in Das Lächeln einer Sommernacht (A Little Night Music) at the Theater an der Wien. La Leander also cavorts about a studio, lipsynching a medley of her hits with Les Boys. Once she lights up the cigarette, doesn’t she look exactly like Bette Davis doing a musical version of The Little Foxes?

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  • olddansker says:

    OK, I give up. I admit my total ignorance. Who the hell is she?

    on August 31, 2007 at 10:17 AM
  • olddansker says:

    Thanks, La Cieca, for not pointing out my obliviousness to the link in the original post, and for kindly reposting it. Fascinating story, indeed.

    on August 31, 2007 at 11:36 AM
  • Daniel says:

    Love the three key changes in the one sentance.
    Strange how “the Diva of the Third Reich” has been worshipped and adored throughout Europe, before, throughout and after WW2, yet poor Elizabeth Schwarzkopft cops a beating in some quarters (and in here), for being a Nazi sympathiser merely on suspicion merely based on very flimsy “evidence”.

    on September 5, 2007 at 12:19 AM