Nina van Pallandt

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Nina van Pallandt, 1970

Baroness Nina van Pallandt (* 15. July 1932 in Copenhagen as Nina Magdalene Møller-Hasselbalch ) is a Danish singer and actress.

Life

The daughter of Kaj Møller and Clara Kirstine Undset Gyth married the Danish actor and singer Thorvald Théodore William Hugo Wessel on August 11, 1955. In 1960 she married the Dutch Baron Frederik van Pallandt and went with him as a singing - duo Nina & Frederik , whereby both were known internationally.

The marriage had three children: the later screenwriter, director and painter Floris Nicolas Ali, Baron van Pallandt (1961-2006), Kirsa Eleonore Clara, Baroness van Pallandt (* 1963) and Ana Maria Else, Baroness van Pallandt (* 1965).

Nina van Pallandt hit the headlines in the early 1970s when she became the lover of the con man Clifford Irving , who was jailed for a fake biography of billionaire Howard Hughes . In the 1974 semi-documentary film F for Fake by director Orson Welles , she appears as "herself". Van Pallandt was portrayed by Julie Delpy in the 2006 film adaptation of the scam story, The Hoax . With Richard Gere , who played the role of Clifford Irving in The Hoax , van Pallandt stood in front of the camera for certain hours in the 1980 film A Man .

The marriage of Nina and Frederik van Pallandt was divorced in 1975. Her ex-husband's life ended tragically. He settled in the Philippines and got involved with Australian drug criminals, for whom he organized boat transports. He was shot dead by river pirates during a transport in May 1994. After the divorce, Nina was briefly married to the South African satirist Robert Kirby in the second half of the 1970s.

Nina van Pallandt appeared in several films by director Robert Altman in the 1970s , including Death Knows No Return (1973), Quintet (1977) and One Wedding (1978). In addition, she was also seen in various television series, so in Hart but cordially , Taxi and The incredible stories of Roald Dahl .

Nina sang one of her best-known single tracks in the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service , the only one with George Lazenby as James Bond. Your Title Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown? can also be heard on original soundtrack records. Katja Ebstein sang the German version, What does Santa Claus dream of in May . The title Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) , with which Peter Sarstedt took first place in the British charts for six weeks in 1969, is said to have served as inspiration by van Pallandt.

Discography

Singles

Filmography

  • 1959: Kærlighedens melodi
  • 1959: mandolins and moonlight
  • 1962: The sold grandfather
  • 1969: No! No! No! (TV)
  • 1973: Death Has No Return (The Long Goodbye)
  • 1975: Assault on Agathon
  • 1975: Ellery Queen, episode: The Adventure of Colonel Nivin's Memoirs (TV series)
  • 1975: Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case (TV)
  • 1975: Christmas Box (TV)
  • 1977: Diary of a Young Comic (TV)
  • 1978: The Wedding (A Wedding)
  • 1979: Quintet (Quintet)
  • 1980: Hard but warm , episode: Night Horrors (TV series)
  • 1980: A man for certain hours (American Gigolo)
  • 1980: Mad Pilot - Der Wahnsinnsflieger (Cloud Dancer)
  • 1981: Cutter's Way (Cutter's Way)
  • 1982: Taxi , episode: Elegant Iggy (TV series)
  • 1982: Talon fighting the Empire (The Sword and the Sorcerer)
  • 1983: Frank Buck - Adventure in Malaysia , episode: Bones of Contention (TV series)
  • 1984: Jungle Warriors (Jungle Fever)
  • 1985: Black Cats (OC and Stiggs)
  • 1986: Sex reassignment - Second Serve (Second Serve) (TV)
  • 1987: Así como habían sido
  • 1988: Time Out
  • 1988: The Unbelievable Stories of Roald Dahl , episode: A Time to Die (TV series)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sydney Morning Herald, December 16, 2006, Drug tsar uses silence in fight to keep villa

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personal data
SURNAME Pallandt, Nina van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nina (pseudonym); Møller-Hasselbalch, Nina Magdalene (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish film actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen