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Cause of death
  
Cancer

Role
  
Actress

Name
  
Dolly Haas

Years active
  
1930–81

Occupation
  
Actress


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Born
  
April 29, 1910 (
1910-04-29
)
Hamburg, Germany

Died
  
September 16, 1994, New York City, New York, United States

Spouse
  
Al Hirschfeld (m. 1943–1994), John Brahm (m. 1937–1941)

Movies
  
I Confess, Broken Blossoms, Girls Will Be Boys, I Married an Angel, Ein Madel der Strasse

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Dorothy Clara Louise "Dolly" Haas (29 April 1910 – 16 September 1994) was a German-American actress and singer who played in German and American films, and often appeared in Broadway plays. Her husband was caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.

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Life and work

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Haas was born in Hamburg, Germany, to Charles Oswald Haas, a bookseller of British origin, and Margarete Maria (née Hansen). Haas was an accomplished actress in German cinema before moving to the United States.

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Charles Haas was half-German but grew up in England, with British citizenship. Dolly and her sister, Margarete attended Jacob Loewenberg's prestigious girls' school Lyzeum in Hamburg, the Anerkannte höhere Mädchenschule.

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Her first marriage was to German-born film director John Brahm, who at one point was resident director for acting troupes such as Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater, both in Berlin. Haas, a naturalized U.S. citizen, married her second husband, famed Jewish New York Times portraitist Al Hirschfeld in Baltimore, Maryland in 1943. They had a daughter, Nina, born in 1945.

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Although Haas did not appear in many English language films, she did have an important role in Alfred Hitchcock's 1953 film, I Confess. Haas was a personal friend of Hitchcock's, and Hitchcock cast her as Alma Keller, the wife of the murderer—janitor Otto Keller. This high-profile film also starred Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden and Brian Aherne.

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Dolly Haas had her debut as a professional actress in 1927. She then worked at Berlin's Grosses Schauspielhaus, before embarking on a film career that brought her to England and to Hollywood. She also performed on Broadway. Haas enjoyed a brief but successful stage career in the United States as well, appearing alongside such luminaries as John Gielgud and Lillian Gish in the 1947 revival of Crime and Punishment. She made her New York stage debut in 1941 in Erwin Piscator's production of "The Circle of Chalk."

She followed Mary Martin in the lead role in Lute Song in 1946 for the touring production. Her co-star, Yul Brynner, said that Haas' casting substantially improved the show, stating that, "Dolly Haas understood the part. She had an affinity for it, and the play immediately improved. It wasn't at all that Dolly was a better actress. She was just better casting for the part than Mary."

Mary Martin agreed with Brynner's assessment, and she helped Haas to prepare for the role in a very short span of time allotted for rehearsal. She performed in Off Broadway productions of The Threepenny Opera and Brecht on Brecht.

Death

Dolly Haas Hirschfeld died 16 September 1994 from ovarian cancer in New York City, aged 84.

Filmography

Actress
1950
Studio One (TV Series) as
Mrs. Kneiper
- Regarding File Number 3456 (1956) - Mrs. Kneiper
- Riviera (1950)
1954
Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) as
Sister Madeline
- The Fugitive (1954) - Sister Madeline
1953
Main Street to Broadway as
Dolly Haas (uncredited)
1953
I Confess as
Alma Keller
1952
The Merry Widow as
First Little Girl (uncredited)
1951
The Billy Rose Show (TV Series)
- Pick Up (1951)
1943
Du Barry Was a Lady as
Miss April (uncredited)
1942
I Married an Angel as
Infanta (uncredited)
1941
Unfinished Business as
Woman (uncredited)
1940
The Bank Dick as
Script Girl (uncredited)
1938
Carefree as
Minor Role (uncredited)
1936
Gold Diggers of 1937 as
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
1936
Spy of Napoleon as
Eloise
1936
Star for a Night as
Chorine (uncredited)
1936
Broken Blossoms as
Lucy
1935
Warum lügt Fräulein Käthe? as
Käthe Wilkens - Fotografin
1934
Girls Will Be Boys as
Pat Caverley
1934
Es tut sich was um Mitternacht as
Susanne 'Susi' Wegener - Tochter
1933
The Page of the Hotel Dalmasse as
Friedel Bornemann
1933
Kleines Mädel - großes Glück as
Annie Schierke
1933
Die kleine Schwindlerin as
Annette
1933
The Private Secretary Gets Married as
Lotte
1932
Großstadtnacht as
Madeleine Duchanef
1932
A Girl of the Street as
Scampolo
1932
Ein steinreicher Mann as
Dolly
1932
Things Are Getting Better Already as
Edith
1932
A Girl You Don't Forget as
Lisa Brandes
1931
Liebeskommando as
Antonia
1931
The Upright Sinner as
Hedwig Pichlers-Tochter
1931
Der Ball as
Antoinette Kampf
1931
Eine Stunde Glück as
Die Puppe
1930
Dolly macht Karriere as
Dolly Klaren
Soundtrack
1932
A Girl of the Street (performer: "Für'n Groschen Liebe")
1932
A Girl You Don't Forget (performer: "Man hat's nicht leicht")
Self
1996
The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story (Documentary) as
Self
1989
The Exiles (Documentary) as
Self
1987
Dolly, Lotte und Maria (Documentary) as
Self
1975
Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland (TV Series documentary) as
Self
Archive Footage
2020
Les mille et une vies de Yul Brynner (TV Movie documentary) as
Self

References

Dolly Haas Wikipedia