FRIEDRICH HOLLÄNDER (1896- 1976), born in London. He was the son of composer Victor Holländer. Educated at the Berlin Conservatory. By the More

FRIEDRICH HOLLÄNDER (1896- 1976), born in London. He was the son of composer Victor Holländer. Educated at the Berlin Conservatory. By the age of 18 he had become an associate conductor at the Prague Opera House. After studying in Berlin, he composed music for productions by Max Reinhardt and became involved in cabaret and wrote music for the film, The Blue Angel (1930). He left Nazi Germany and emigrated to the United States of America where he wrote the music for over a hundred films, including Destry Rides Again (1939), A Foreign Affair (1948), and Sabrina (1954). Many of his songs were made famous by Marlene Dietrich. He can be seen as the piano accompanist in A Foreign Affair. He received four Academy Award nominations for composition . In 1956 he returned to Germany, and died in Munich in 1976. CURT BOIS (1901--1991) actor, born in Berlin. He began acting in 1907, becoming one of the film world's first child actors, with a role in the silent movie Bauernhaus und Grafenschloß. Bois' acting career spanned eighty years, a longer period than can be claimed by any actor. His final performance was in Der Himmel über Berlin (in English: Wings of Desire) in 1987. Bois was very adaptable, performing in theatre, cabaret, musicals, silent film and "talkies" over his career. In 1934 he was forced to leave Germany. In New York City he found work on stage on Broadway. By 1937 he had found his way to Hollywood, and began acting in American pictures, the best-known of which was Casablanca (1942). After World War II Bois decided it was safe to return to Germany, which he did in 1950. He finished out his life and career in Germany, first in the East, and finally in the West Berlin - the city of his birth, at the age of ninety. Recording: Curt Bois und Ijia Livshakoff Tanz-Orchester -- Reizend (Fr. Holländer), aus der Kabarett-Revue „Höchste Eisenbahn", Grammophon 1930
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Leonard Norman Cohen, CC, GOQ (born September 21, 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, novelist, and artist. Cohen published his More

Leonard Norman Cohen, CC, GOQ (born September 21, 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, novelist, and artist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often deals with the exploration of religion, isolation, sexuality and complex interpersonal relationships. Musically, Cohen's earliest songs (many of which appeared on the 1967 album, Songs of Leonard Cohen) were rooted in European folk music.[1] In the 1970s, his material encompassed pop, cabaret and world music. Since the 1980s his high baritone voice has evolved into lower registers (bass baritone and bass), with accompaniment from electronic synthesizers and female backing singers.
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