| Fritzi Scheff | |
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 Fritzi Scheff in 1913 |
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| Born | August 30, 1879 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | April 8, 1954 (aged 74) |
| Occupation | Stage, film, television actress |
| Spouse(s) | Baron Fritz von Bardeleben, John Fox, Jr., George Anderson |
Fritzi Scheff (August 30, 1879 – April 8, 1954) was an American actress and vocalist.
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Born in Vienna, Austria, she studied at Hoch's Conservatoire at Frankfurt and made her début at Munich in the title röle of Martha (1898). In 1901 she first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, singing parts in La Bohème, Die Meistersinger, Die Walküre, and Don Giovanni. She sang in the opera Babette at Washington and New York (1903), had an immense success as Fifi in Mlle. Modiste (1905-1908) and 1913) and appeared also in The Prima Donna (1908), The Mikado (1910), The Duchess (1911), and The Love Wager (1912). Later she sang in vaudeville.
In 1915 Scheff decided to give her hand to movies by appearing in Pretty Mrs. Smith based on a Broadway play she starred in. It was produced and directed by Hobart Bosworth. She made no other silent pictures. In the late 40s and early 50s Scheff ventured into sound movies and television. She appeared in night clubs and on talk shows such as Ralph Edwards This is Your Life shortly before her death.
She married, first, Baron Fritz von Bardeleben a Prussian nobleman, then in 1908 to John Fox, Jr. author of Trail of the Lonesome Pine, and, in 1913, George Anderson, an actor. She bore no children in any of the marriages. (see discussion)
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