Margo Lion

Margo Lion

Born February 28, 1899· Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]

† Died February 25, 1989

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A Turkish-born French performer, Margo Lion grew up in a Jewish family in Constantinople before relocating to Berlin after World War I, where she entered a Russian ballet school and later emerged as a celebrated chanteuse, parodist and cabaret singer. Her breakthrough on screen came with the role of Pirate Jenny in G. W. Pabst’s 1931 French-language version of Threepenny Opera, and a 1928 duet wit…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources

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