Weakened version of the opera. For a long time unobtainable, since the fall of the DDR again in the circuit. Lotte Lenya plays Jenny instead of the part of Polly on the stage so she sings only one song in this film. Carola Neher is Polly in the film and Valeska Gert is Mrs Peachum
Maria Hussa Soprano Born 7 Dec 1894 Vienna -died 19 Apr 1980, US, in 1980she was murdered in a metro station in Chicago.Interview with Studs Terkel and Sonia Sharnova. Studs Terkel (May 16, 1912 - October 31, 2008).
Debut 1917, being Jewih she fled to US in 1933.
John McCormack (14 June 1884 - 16 September 1945), was a world-famous Irish tenor in the fields of opera and popular music, and renowned for his flawless diction and superb breath control.