Margo Lion (cabaret singer)
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Margo Lion | |
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Born | Marguerite Hélène Barbe Elisabeth Constantine Lion 28 February 1899 |
Died | 24 February 1989 | (aged 89)
Occupation | Chanteuse, Actress |
Years active | 1921–1977 |
Spouse(s) | Marcellus Schiffer |
Marguerite Hélène Barbe Elisabeth Constantine Lion (28 February 1899 – 24 February 1989), known as Margo Lion, was a French chanteuse, parodist, cabaret singer and actress, best known for her role as Pirate Jenny in director G.W. Pabst's 1931 French language adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper).
She appeared in several French films until the early 1970s, including Docteur Françoise Gailland, L'Humeur Vagabonde, La Faute De L'Abbe Mouret, Le Petit Matin, Le Fou Du Labo, Julie La Rousse, and the French romantic melodrama Martin Roumagnac, which starred Marlene Dietrich.[citation needed] Lion and Dietrich sang a famous duet, "Wenn die beste Freundin mit der besten Freundin", a song which allegedly had lesbian overtones. It became a hit in Weimar Berlin prior to Dietrich's departure for Hollywood.[citation needed]
Death[]
Lion died in Paris in 1989, four days before her 90th birthday.
Selected filmography[]
- Calais-Dover (1931)
- 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (1931)
- The Trunks of Mr. O.F. (1931)
- I Go Out and You Stay Here (1931)
- The Big Attraction (1931)
- No More Love (1931)
- Narcotics (1932)
- The Magic Top Hat (1932)
- The Song of Night (1932)
- The Faceless Voice (1933)
- And Who Is Kissing Me? (1933)
- The Red Dancer (1937)
- Claudine at School (1937)
- The Man from Nowhere (1937)
- The Lafarge Case (1938)
- Martin Roumagnac (1946)
- Devil and the Angel (1946)
- The Dance of Death (1948)
- Woman Without a Past (1948)
- The Woman I Murdered (1948)
- Flesh and the Woman (1954)
- La Famille Anodin (1956)
- Nick Carter va tout casser (1964)
- Lola (1961)
- Coplan Takes Risks (1964)
External links[]
- Margo Lion at IMDb
- 1899 births
- 1989 deaths
- Cabaret singers
- French film actresses
- 20th-century French actresses
- 20th-century French singers
- 20th-century German musicians
- 20th-century French women singers
- German singer stubs