Biography
Marguerite Hélène Barbe Elisabeth Constantine Lion (28 February 1899 – 24 February 1989), known as Margo Lion, was a Jewish singer and actress. She was born in Constantinople during Ottoman rule. She moved to Berlin after World War I with her father to join the school of Russian ballet. When the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933 she moved to France to flee antisemitic persecution. She was a successful chanteuse, parodist, cabaret singer, and actress, best known for her role as Pirate Jenny in director G. W. Pabst's 1931 French language adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper).
She appeared in several French films until the early 1970s, including Docteur Françoise Gailland, L'Humeur Vagabonde, La Faute De L'Abbe Mouret, Le Petit Matin, Le Fou Du Labo, Julie La Rousse, and the French romantic melodrama Martin Roumagnac, which starred Marlene Dietrich. Lion and Dietrich sang a famous duet, "Wenn die beste Freundin mit der besten Freundin", a song which allegedly had lesbian overtones. It became a hit in Weimar Berlin prior to Dietrich's departure for Hollywood.
Filmography
all 66
Movies 65
self 1
TV Shows 1
Cabaret-Berlin, the Wild Scene (2010)
Doctor Francoise Gailland (1976)
Coup de sang (1973)
The Shadow Line (1973)
La vie facile (1973)
Vagabond Humor (1972)
The Breach (1970)
The Madman of Lab Four (1967)
License to Kill (1964)
Coplan, Agent 005 (1964)
Jusqu'à plus soif (1962)
Lola (1961)
Liberty Bar (1960)
Katia (1959)
Julie la rousse (1959)
The Tiger Attacks (1959)
Guilty? (1956)
Flesh and the Woman (1954)
Mademoiselle Nitouche (1954)
Fatal Affair (1953)
Dreaming Days (1951)
The Lovers of Bras-Mort (1951)
The Strollers (1950)
Dream Ballerina (1950)
The Ferret (1950)
The Woman I Murdered (1948)
Femme sans passé (1948)
La Danse de mort (1948)
One Night at the Tabarin (1947)
The Room Upstairs (1946)
Devil and the Angel (1946)
As Long As I Live (1946)
Girls in Distress (1939)
I Sing (1938)
The Lafarge Case (1938)
Claudine at School (1937)
La Danseuse rouge (1937)
The Man from Nowhere (1937)
Jenny (1936)
La Bandera (1935)
Les dieux s'amusent (1935)
Incognito (1934)
High and Low (1933)
La Voix sans visage (1933)
Hände aus dem Dunkel (1933)
...und wer küßt mich? (1933)
The Lucky Top Hat (1932)
The Song of Night (1932)
The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F. (1931)
24 Hours of a Woman's Life (1931)
Calais-Douvres (1931)
No More Love (1931)
I Go Out and You Stay Here (1931)
Adventures of a Ten Mark Note (1926)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1899-02-28
Deathday1989-02-25 (89 years old)
Birth NameMarguerite Hélène Constantine Barbe Élisabeth Lion
Birth PlaceConstantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
CitizenshipsFrance
Also Known AsMargot Lion, Margo Lyon
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