Неміс-американдық актриса Долли Хаас өмірі мен шығармашылығы

German actress

Dorothy Clara Louise Haas (29 April 1910 – 16 September 1994) was a German American actress and singer who played in German and American films. After moving to the United States, she often appeared in Broadway plays. She became a naturalized US citizen and married Al Hirschfeld, a noted portraitist and caricaturist in New York City.

Haas was born in Hamburg, Germany, to Charles Oswald Haas, a bookseller of British German origin, and Margarete Maria (née Hansen). She was already an accomplished actress in German cinema before moving to the United States. Her father Charles was half German, but had grown up in England, and had British citizenship. Dolly and her sister, Margarete, attended Jacob Loewenberg's girls' school Lyzeum in Hamburg, the Anerkannte höhere Mädchenschule.

Haas married German born film director John Brahm. At one time, he was resident director for acting troupes such as Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater, both in Berlin. They divorced in 1941. After moving to the US, Haas became a naturalized U. S. citizen. She married again in 1943, to Al Hirschfeld in Baltimore, Maryland. They lived in New York, where he worked for The New York Times as a portraitist and caricaturist. His work was also published in the New York Review of Books. They had a daughter, Nina, born in 1945. She also performed with John Gielgud and Lillian Gish in the 1947 revival of Crime and Punishment. In 1946 Haas followed Mary Martin in the lead role in Lute Song for the touring production. Haas also performed in Off Broadway productions of The Threepenny Opera and Brecht on Brecht. Haas was a personal friend of Hitchcock, and he cast her as Alma Keller, the wife of the murderer—janitor Otto Keller. This high profile film also starred Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden and Brian Aherne.

Haas died 16 September 1994 from ovarian cancer in New York City, aged 84.