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Margaretha "Greta" Keller (8 February 1903 – 11 November 1977) was an Austrian and American cabaret singer and actress, who worked in some Hollywood movies and television dramas.
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Margaretha "Greta" Keller (8 February 1903 – 11 November 1977) was an Austrian and American cabaret singer and actress, who worked in some Hollywood movies and television dramas.
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Early life Born Margaretha Keller in Vienna, Austria, she studied dance from the age of 8, followed by acting. Her début was in Pavillon in Vienna. She also appeared on stage with Marlene Dietrich in Broadway, in which she sang and danced. A recording contract with Ultraphon in 1929 took her from Vienna to Prague and Berlin, where she enjoyed great success with Peter Igelhoff and Peter Kreuder. For over 45 years, her voice was familiar worldwide in radio shows, films, revues, concerts and musicals, and above all in recordings. First called "The Great Lady Of Chanson" in her native Vienna, the nickname followed her to London and the United States.
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Career Her lieder voice carried the charm of the Parisian women but never lost the heart of the girl from Vienna. Greta's singing in what some call "a style reminiscent of Marlene Dietrich" comes from the fact she was the model for how Marlene Dietrich developed her own voice. Greta Keller made recordings throughout the world and from the 1920s into the 1970s. She spent many years in the United States, notably in hotel club rooms at the Waldorf and (later) the Stanhope in New York, where her show always included "My Way", with lyrics composed by Paul Anka, and a number of Noël Coward's songs. A "singer's singer," Keller often drew other performers to the room, including the Nordstrom Sisters, Beverly Sills and Hildegarde. Other regulars booked the same tables most nights that she was performing, including photographer Edgar de Evia. Favorites of the Stanhope crowd were the songs of Cole Porter and Noël Coward because of their sexual innuendo and double entendres. These included "Miss Otis Regrets" and "I'm the Other Woman in His Life" by her friend Elisse Boyd. She regularly returned to Vienna. The poet and singer Rod McKuen was introduced by her to an audience…
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Personal life Greta Keller's first marriage to the singer Joe Sargent in 1928 did not last; he turned out to be an alcoholic. Her second marriage started and ended in Hollywood, where she met and married Gaspar Griswold Bacon, Jr. son of Gaspar G. Bacon from a prominent family in Boston. The elder Bacon was a member of the board of Harvard University, had been a close associate of J. P. Morgan, and later served as Secretary of State under Theodore Roosevelt and ambassador to France under William Howard Taft. In her later years, Keller disclosed that both she and Bacon were bisexuals and that their lavender marriage partly served as what she referred to as a "beard", allowing both of them to maintain the requisite façade in Hollywood, where they were both attempting to establish film careers. Her husband, known in film and theater as David Bacon, was murdered in 1943, two weeks after finishing a major role in the Republic serial The Masked Marvel. Speculation involved affairs with Howard Hughes and another actor, but the murder investigations ceased without a result, and the files later disappeared. Due to that shock and a counter-indicated dose of morphine administered by…
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Death Keller died on November 11, 1977, aged 74. She was buried on the Wiener Zentralfriedhof.
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Filmography The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931) The Song of Life (1931) as Singer Melody of Love (1932) as Singer, a.k.a. Right to Happiness The Adventurer of Paris (1936) as Cabaret Singer, a.k.a. The Paris Adventure Reunion in France (1942) as Baroness von Steinkamp, a.k.a. Mademoiselle France and Reunion Herz spielt falsch, Ein (1953) as Chansonniere/Cabaret Singer, a.k.a. A Heart's Foul Play
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Blaue Stunde (1967) as Singer Cabaret (1972) (her voice is heard on a record as the singer of "Heirat")
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Notable TV appearances Five Fingers, playing Micheline in episode "Station Break" (episode # 1.1), 3 October 1959 Drehscheibe, Die, playing Singer, 6 November 1968 V.I.P.-Schaukel, playing Herself (episode # 4.3), 15 December 1974