Anya Taranda
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| Born | January 1, 1915 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | March 9, 1970 (aged 55) New York City, U.S. |
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Anya Taranda (January 1, 1915 – March 9, 1970) was an American model, showgirl, and actress and the wife of composer Harold Arlen.
Biography
[edit]Born in New York City to Catholic Russian parents, Anya Taranda became a Powers Agency model where she was signed as one of the first Breck Shampoo models. In 1932, she met composer Harold Arlen in New York City during the Broadway theatre production of Earl Carroll's Vanities. They eventually married on January 6, 1937, over the objection of their parents, because she was a gentile and he was Jewish.[1]
In 1934, she appeared in her first of nine film roles, in an uncredited part as an "Earl Carroll girl" in Murder at the Vanities, based on Carroll's Broadway play.[2]
In 1951, she was institutionalized in a sanatorium after repeatedly threatening her husband and others with physical harm; she stayed there for seven years.[1]
She died from a brain tumor on March 9, 1970, in New York City,[3] at the age of 55.[1] A Russian Orthodox service was held for her funeral.[4] She is interred next to her husband in the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.[5][6]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Come Rain or Come Shine". The New Yorker. September 19, 2005. ISSN 0028-792X.
- ↑ Institute, American Film (1971). The 1931-1940: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films. University of California Press. p. 683. ISBN 978-0-520-07908-3.
- ↑ Jablonski 1996, p. 340.
- ↑ Jablonski 1996, p. 341.
- ↑ "Arlen Dies; Composer of 'Over the Rainbow'". Los Angeles Times. 24 April 1986.
- ↑ "Collections Highlight: Harold Arlen at the piano". The Great American Songbook Foundation.
Sources
[edit]- Jablonski, Edward (1996). Harold Arlen: Rhythm, Rainbows, and Blues. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 978-1-55553-366-3.
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