Miriam Battista

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Miriam Caramella Josephine Battista (born July 14, 1912 in New York ; † December 22, 1980 ibid) was an American actress , singer , composer , author and television presenter who began her career on Broadway at the age of four and in the same Made her debut as a film actress in the year. By the end of her career in 1948, Battista took part in several dozen films and plays. From 1947 Battista also worked as a television presenter.

Life

Miriam Battista was born in New York City on July 14, 1912 to Italian immigrants . At the age of four, Battista made her debut as an actress in the play A Kiss for Cinderella, with Maude Adams in the lead role. Other supporting roles in plays followed.

Miriam Battista, about 1921/22

In the same year, Battista's career as a film actress began in Blazing Love . Other film roles, some of them larger, followed, which cemented her reputation as a child star . The most successful film of her career is the drama Humoresque , in which she played the role of Minnie Ginsberg. After the death of her mother in 1924, Battista interrupted her career for several years.

Since 1931 Battista played leading roles in several Italian-language films such as Santa Lucia Luntana or Così è la vita . Miriam Battista also continued to work in the theater and played with Bert Lahr in Hot-Cha! or Humphrey Bogart in Our Wife .

In addition to her work as an actress, Miriam Battista also wrote short stories . Her story, No Sugar Thanks , was published in the New York Times on April 20, 1940 .

Since 1947, Miriam Battista and her husband Russell Maloney hosted the talk show The Maloneys , funded by the DuMont Television Network , which was discontinued with Maloney's death in September 1948. Battista and her husband also wrote the musical Sleepy Hollow , which premiered on Broadway in June 1948 , which plays at the same time and in the same location on the lower Hudson River as Washington Irving's saga of the Sleepy Gorge , but was only performed 12 times in 10 days.

Private life

In 1934 Battista married the dancer Paul Pierce. The marriage was divorced in 1935 after just under a year. In 1938 she married the author Russell Maloney, with whom she was married until his death in September 1948. Battista's daughter Amelia, who was born in 1945, comes from her marriage to Maloney. Only a few months after the death of her husband, she married the radio producer Lloyd Rosamond, with whom she remained married until his death in 1964.

Miriam Battista died on December 22, 1980 at the age of 68 in New York's Jewish Memorial Hospital of complications from COPD .

Filmography

  • 1916: Blazing Love
  • 1919: Eye for Eye
  • 1920: Humoresque
  • 1921: At the Stage Door
  • 1922: The Good Provider
  • 1922: The Blonde Vampire
  • 1922: Boomerang Bill
  • 1922: The Curse of Drink
  • 1922: The Man Who Played God
  • 1922: Smilin 'Through
  • 1923: The Custard Club
  • 1923: The Steadfast Heart
  • 1931: Santa Lucia Luntana
  • 1931: So è la vita
  • 1934: Enlighten Thy Daughter
  • 1947–1948: The Maloneys (talk show)

Theatrography

  • 1916: A Kiss for Cinderella
  • 1917: Daddy Long Legs
  • 1918: A Doll's House
  • 1918: Freedom
  • 1919: Daddies
  • 1919: Papa
  • 1919: The Red Dawn
  • 1931: The Honor Code
  • 1932: Hot-Cha!
  • 1933: Saint Wench
  • 1933: Our Wife
  • 1933: To Undesirable Lady
  • 1934: No More Ladies
  • 1934: Fools Rush In
  • 1935: Tapestry in Gray
  • 1936: Summer Wives
  • 1936: Prelude to Exile
  • 1939: They Knew What They Wanted

Publications

  • 1940: No Sugar Thanks (short story)
  • 1948: Sleepy Hollow (musical)

Web links

Commons : Miriam Battista  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Miriam Battista: No Sugar Thanks. April 20, 1940, accessed October 31, 2015 .
  2. ^ International Broadway Database: Sleepy Hollow. Retrieved October 31, 2015 .
  3. ↑ The New York Times: RUSSBLL.MALOHBY, HUMORIST, 38, DIES; 'Former Head of New Yorker's,' Talk of the Town 'Department Was Book Critio for CBS. September 5, 1948, accessed October 31, 2015 .
  4. ^ The New York Times: Miriam Battista, Actress In the Theater and Films. December 27, 1980, accessed October 31, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Battista, Miriam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Battista, Miriam Caramella Josephine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress, singer, composer, writer and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1980
Place of death new York