Margo Lion
Actor, Film actor
1899 – 1989
Who was Margo Lion?
Margo Lion was a German chanson, 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.
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.
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.
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- Born
- Feb 28, 1899
Constantinople - Also known as
- Margot Lion
- Margo Lyon
- Marguerite Hélène Barbe Elisabeth Constantine Lion
- Spouses
- Marcellus Schiffer
(1928 - 1932/08/24)
- Marcellus Schiffer
- Nationality
- Germany
- Turkey
- France
- Profession
- Died
- Feb 25, 1989
Annecy-le-Vieux
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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