Lee Parry

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Lee Parry, photograph by Alexander Binder , around 1920

Lee Parry (born January 14, 1901 in Munich as Mathilde Charlotte Benz , † January 24, 1977 in Bad Tölz ) was a German actress and singer .

Life

Lee Parry was the daughter of the opera tenor, actor and variety director " Papa Benz " , which was popular at the time, and the singer Mathilde Benz (1880–1967). At the age of 16 she traveled to Berlin, then still as Hilde Benz, and was discovered by the director Richard Eichberg , whom she was to marry later, and committed to the film. Her silent film career began in 1919 under the stage name Lee Parry and went seamlessly into sound film engagements in the late 1920s. In addition to her work in the film industry, where she was seen in leading roles from the very beginning, Lee Parry also appeared on stage (as in the Rudolf Nelson revue , you have to be lucky ) and on the radio and also sang popular shellac records .

Her domain was the "easy subject" with comedies or antics, but Lee Parry was also successful in dramatic films, such as Monna Vanna by Richard Eichberg (1922) and Regine, the tragedy of a woman by Erich Waschneck (1927). In 1935 Lee Parry withdrew almost completely into private life, but in 1939, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War , he played again in a French production, Adieu Vienne . In the 1950s, she married the director of the German Theater in Buenos Aires, Siegmund Breslauer . In 1956 she moved to South America, where she made a theatrical comeback and appeared on various stages. Occasionally she also came to visit her hometown Munich.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1919: Jettatore
  • 1919: nun and dancer
  • 1919: Slaves of alien will
  • 1919: sins of parents
  • 1920: The Curse of Mankind
  • 1920: The dance on the volcano
  • 1920: Prosecutor Briand's adventure
  • 1921: The living propeller
  • 1921: The marriage of Hedda Olsen
  • 1921: The beggar countess from Kurfürstendamm
  • 1921: The love affairs of the beautiful Evelyne
  • 1922: The Ocean Shipyard
  • 1922: Your Highness the dancer
  • 1922: Monna Vanna
  • 1923: Miss Raffke
  • 1924: The most beautiful woman in the world
  • 1925: The motor bride
  • 1925: The woman with something
  • 1925: The love cage
  • 1925: luxury female
  • 1925: Fedora
  • 1926: The woman who can't say no
  • 1926: When the heart of the youth speaks
  • 1926: The light Isabell
  • 1927: Regine, a woman's tragedy
  • 1927: The woman with the world record
  • 1928: The strange night of Helga Wangen
  • 1928: Anastasia, the false daughter of the Tsar
  • 1928: The richest woman in the world
  • 1929: Bus No. 2
  • 1929: Weekend magic in Oberhof
  • 1930: The merry women of Vienna
  • 1931: A little love for you
  • 1932: Johann Strauss
  • 1932: love at first note
  • 1932: The big bluff
  • 1932: The gentlemen from Maxim
  • 1933: Not a day without you
  • 1935: The multiplication table of love
  • 1939: Goodbye Vienne

Discography (selection)

  • A little love for me . From the movie A Little Love for You . Text and music by Friedrich Hollaender, 1931 YouTube
  • A little longing . From the play Phaea . Text and music by Friedrich Hollaender YouTube
  • Which is to smoke the chimney . From the film No day without you , music by Hans May , text by Ernst Neubach , 1933 - YouTube
  • Open the windows, spring is there . Viennese waltz from the film Johann Strauss , by Hans May after Johann Strauss
  • When the person is in love . Viennese waltz from the film Johann Strauss , by Hans May based on Johann Strauss
  • I am prepared for love from head to toe . Slow-fox from the sound film The Blue Angel , text and music by Friedrich Hollaender
  • You only kiss like that in Vienna . Viennese waltz from the sound film: A little love for you , music by Paul Abraham , text by Armin L. Robinson and Robert Gilbert
  • In St. Pauli, near Altona . From the play Phaea . Text and music by Friedrich Hollaender

Web links

Commons : Lee Parry  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Kühn: Text accompanying the CD: Schlager im Spiegel der Zeit 1932, Bear Family, Hambergen 2010.
  2. ↑ Berthold Leimbach (ed.): Sound documents of the cabaret and their interpreters 1898–1945, Göttingen 1991
personal data
SURNAME Parry, Lee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benz, Mathilde Charlotte (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1977
Place of death Bad Toelz , Bavaria , Federal Republic of Germany