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

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

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Life and work

Haas was born in Hamburg, Germany to Charles Oswald Haas, a bookseller of British origin, 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

I Confess (film)

I Confess is a drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Montgomery Clift as Fr. Michael William Logan, a Catholic priest, Anne Baxter as Ruth Grandfort, and Karl Malden as Inspector Larrue. This was the only film Hitchcock made with these three actors...

in 1953.

Her first marriage was to German-born film director John Brahm

John Brahm

John Brahm was a film and television director possibly best known today for directing a dozen of the original Twilight Zone episodes including the now classic "Time Enough at Last"...

, who at one point was resident director for acting troupes as Deutsches Theater

Deutsches Theater

The Deutsches Theater in Berlin is a well-known German theatre. It was built in 1850 as Friedrich-Wilhelm-Städtisches Theater, after Frederick William IV of Prussia. Located on Schumann Street , the Deutsches Theater consists of two adjoining stages that share a common, classical facade...

 and the Lessing Theater

Lessing Theater

The Lessing Theater was a theater in Berlin-Mitte, Germany, at Friedrich-Karl-Ufer 1 . It opened in 1888 and was destroyed in April 1945 in a bombing raid; its ruins were demolished after World War II....

, both in Berlin

Berlin

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. A naturalized U.S. citizen, she married her second husband, famed caricaturist Al Hirschfeld

Al Hirschfeld

Albert "Al" Hirschfeld was an American caricaturist best known for his simple black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars.-Personal life:Born in St...

 in Baltimore, Maryland in 1943. They had a daughter, Nina (born 1945). Haas died from ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer is a cancerous growth arising from the ovary. Symptoms are frequently very subtle early on and may include: bloating, pelvic pain, difficulty eating and frequent urination, and are easily confused with other illnesses....

 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
  Das häßliche Mädchen
  Das häßliche Mädchen is a German comedy film made in early 1933, during the transition from the Weimar Republic to Nazi Germany, and premièred in September that year...
  
  
• 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
  Broken Blossoms (1936 film)
  Broken Blossoms is a 1936 British drama film directed by John Brahm and starring Emlyn Williams, Arthur Margetson, Basil Radford and Edith Sharpe. It was based on the novel The Chink and the Child by Thomas Burke. It was made at Twickenham Studios in West London. The story had previously been...
  
  
• 1936 Spy of Napoleon
• 1949 Riviera
• 1953 I Confess
  I Confess (film)
  I Confess is a drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Montgomery Clift as Fr. Michael William Logan, a Catholic priest, Anne Baxter as Ruth Grandfort, and Karl Malden as Inspector Larrue. This was the only film Hitchcock made with these three actors...
  
  
• 1954 The Fugitive (from the Armstrong Circle Theatre
  Armstrong Circle Theatre
  Armstrong Circle Theatre is an American anthology drama television series which ran from 1950 to 1957 on NBC, and then until 1963 on CBS. It alternated weekly with The U.S. Steel Hour.-Synopsis:...
  
  TV series)
• 1956 Regarding File Number 4356 (from the Studio One TV series )

External links

• Photographs and literature