Dolly Haas

Dorothy Clara Louise "Dolly" Haas (April 29, 1910 – September 16, 1994) was a singer and an entertainer who often appeared on Broadway.

Life and work

Haas was born in Hamburg, Germany to Charles Oswald Haas, a bookseller of British origin^[1], and Margarete Maria (née Hansen). Her father was an accomplished actor in German cinema before moving to the United States. She was an important actress in German cinema in the 1930s. Although she did not appear in many U.S. films, she had a role in the high-profile Alfred Hitchcock film I Confess in 1953.

Her first marriage was to German-born film director John Brahm, who at one point was resident director for acting troupes as Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater, both in Berlin.^[2] A naturalized U.S. citizen, she married her second husband, famed caricaturist Al Hirschfeld in Baltimore, Maryland in 1943. They had a daughter, Nina (born 1945). Haas died from ovarian cancer in New York, New York, aged 84.

Filmography

• 1930 Eine Stunde Glück
• 1930 Dolly macht Karriere
• 1931 Der Ball
• 1931 Der brave Sünder (aka The Upright Sinner)
• 1931 Liebeskommando
• 1932 Ein steinreicher Mann (aka A Tremendously Rich Man)
• 1932 Es wird schon wieder besser
• 1932 Scampolo, ein Kind der Straße
• 1932 So ein Mädel vergisst man nicht (aka A Girl You Don't Forget)
• 1932 Großstadtnacht
• 1933 Die kleine Schwindlerin
• 1933 Das häßliche Mädchen
• 1933 Kleines Mädel - großes Glück
• 1933 Der Page vom Dalmasse-Hotel
• 1934 Ein Mädel mit Tempo
• 1934 Girls Will Be Boys
• 1935 Warum lügt Fräulein Käthe?
• 1936 Broken Blossoms
• 1936 Spy of Napoleon
• 1949 Riviera
• 1953 I Confess
• 1954 The Fugitive (from the Armstrong Circle Theatre TV series)
• 1956 Regarding File Number 4356 (from the Studio One TV series )

References

1. ^ German movie institute profile
2. ^ John Brahm at AllRovi

External links

• Dolly Haas at the Internet Movie Database
• Photographs and literature

Persondata
Name	Haas, Dolly
Alternative names	Haas, Dorothy Clara Louise
Short description	German-born actress and singer
Date of birth	April 29, 1910
Place of birth	Hamburg, Germany
Date of death	September 16, 1994
Place of death	New York, New York, U.S.