Zarah Leander

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Zarah Leander (March 15, 1907 – June 23, 1981) was a Swedish actress and singer. She was born as Zarah Stina Hedberg in Karlstad, and died in Stockholm. Although Zarah Leander studied piano and violin already as a small child, and sang on stage for the first time at the age of six, she made a serious attempt at an ordinary life. As a teenager she lived two years in Riga (1922–1924), learned the then most important international language, German, took up work as a secretary, married Nils Leander (1926), and had two children (1927 & 1929). However, in 1929 she was engaged, as an amateur, in a touring cabaret by the leading entertainer and producer Ernst Rolf and for the first time sang "Vill ni se en stjärna," ('Do you want to see a star?') which soon would become her signature tune. In 1930, she participated in four cabarets in the capital, Stockholm, made her first records, including a cover of Marlene Dietrich's "Falling in Love Again," and played a part in a film. However, it was as Hanna Glavari in Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow that she had her definitive break-through (1931). By then she had divorced Nils Leander. In the following years, she embarked on a splendid career and could make a decent living as a popular artist on stage and in film in Scandinavia. Her fame brought her proposals also from the European continent and from Hollywood, where a number of Swedish actors and directors were working. Zarah Leander opted for an international career on the Europe

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Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds

Ich Weiß, Es Wird Einmal Ein Wunder Gescheh'n

Starcollection

Kann Denn Liebe Sünde Sein

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds Motion Picture Soundtrack

Zarah Leander

Wunderbar

Inglourious Basterds

Nur nicht aus Liebe weinen

Mein Leben Für Die Liebe - Originalaufnahmen Einer Unvergessenen Künstlerin

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