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Miliza Korjus(1909-1980)

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Miliza Korjus
In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II - Schani to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. After he is fired from his clerical bank job because of his preoccupation with composing, he decides to follow his passion and form an orchestra. After some famed opera singers, including Carla Donner, hear his music, they expose Schani's music to the masses, to royalty and to music publisher Julius Hofbauer. As such, Schani becomes the toast of Vienna. With his new found musical fame, Schani's life, which includes his work in the European Revolutions, changes. He becomes torn for his love for his loving and faithful wife Poldi Vogelhuber and his more emotionally passionate but somewhat destructive love for Carla Donner, who herself is involved with Count Anton Hohenfried.
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Miliza's father was Arthur Korjus, a lieutenant colonel in the Imperial Russian Army and later Chief of Staff to the War Minister of Estonia. The Estonian branch of her family was of Swedish descent, having settled in Estonia during the middle of the seventeenth century when the country was ruled by Sweden. The original Swedish spelling of the family name was "Corjus" but later came to be spelled "Korjus" in Estonian. Miliza's mother was Anna Gintowt, who was descended from Lithuanian-Polish nobility. Miliza was the fifth of six children (she had one brother, and four sisters). Her mother and father separated during World War I and in 1918 she moved to Kiev with her mother and sisters. Miliza received her musical education at the Kiev Conservatory.

While still in her teens, she joined the Dumka Chorus in Kiev and toured the Soviet Union. During a visit to Leningrad in 1927, she crossed the border into Estonia and joined her father and brother who had settled there after Estonia won its independence from Russia. Under her father's guidance (he played the violin and greatly admired opera), she began making concert appearances in the Baltic states. In 1929 she married Dr. Kuno Foelsch, a physicist, and moved to Germany. She continued her concert career there and was eventually engaged by the Berlin State Opera in 1933. Her operatic appearances and recordings quickly propelled her to the forefront of European singers. Her records were heard by Irving Thalberg of MGM who signed her "sight unseen" to a 10 year film contract. She arrived in Hollywood in March of 1936. Thalberg's death in September of that year delayed production of her first film, and it was not until May of 1938 that she started work on Toute la ville danse (1938). The film was well received and she was nominated for an Academy Award, one of the few singers of the period to be so honored. As a vehicle for her second picture, MGM bought the screen rights to the novel "Sandor Rozsa", a story based on the outlaw of the early 19th century who ambushed the wealthy as they traveled between Budapest and Vienna (a kind of Hungarian Robin Hood). The working title of the picture was "Guns and Fiddles" with music derived from Liszt and arranged by Emmerich Kalman. Her co-stars were to be Robert Taylor (as Sandor Rozsa), Hedy Lamarr and Franchot Tone. On May 28, 1940, just two weeks before the scheduled production date of this new picture, she was seriously injured in an auto accident. Her left leg was so badly crushed that the doctors at first considered amputation. However, after several months in hospital, where she underwent numerous operations and bone grafts, she did recover use of the leg.

By the summer of 1941 she had sufficiently recovered to undertake a concert tour of South America. The tour began in Mexico and shortly afterward the U.S. entered World War II. Having spent her youth in war and revolution, she decided to remain in Mexico for the duration. She made one film there, Caballería del imperio (1942) ("Imperial Chivalry"). She returned to the U.S. in October of 1944 to appear at Carnegie Hall. Eventually, she settled in Los Angeles and made concert appearances throughout North America. In 1952, she married Dr. Walter Shector, a physician, and retired from the stage, preferring instead to make recordings. She remained a bright fixture in southern California society and was greatly admired and sought out by visiting artists such as Joan Sutherland and Beverly Sills. She died of heart failure in August, 1980.
BornAugust 18, 1909
DiedAugust 26, 1980(71)
BornAugust 18, 1909
DiedAugust 26, 1980(71)
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Known for

Fernand Gravey, Miliza Korjus, and Luise Rainer in Toute la ville danse (1938)
Toute la ville danse
6.4
  • Carla Donner
  • 1938
Theo Mackeben, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Erich Fiedler, Edna Greyff, Fritz Klotsch, Hans Kyser, Theodor Loos, Arthur Robison, Anton Walbrook, Dorothea Wieck, and Josef Fenneker in L'étudiant de Prague (1935)
L'étudiant de Prague
6.8
  • Julia(singing voice)
  • 1935
Caballería del imperio (1942)
Caballería del imperio
5.7
  • Vera Donna
  • 1942
Suuri illusioni (1985)
Suuri illusioni
4.0
  • Soundtrack("Warum")
  • 1985

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  • Caballería del imperio (1942)
    Caballería del imperio
    5.7
    • Vera Donna
    • 1942
  • Fernand Gravey, Miliza Korjus, and Luise Rainer in Toute la ville danse (1938)
    Toute la ville danse
    6.4
    • Carla Donner
    • 1938
  • Theo Mackeben, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Erich Fiedler, Edna Greyff, Fritz Klotsch, Hans Kyser, Theodor Loos, Arthur Robison, Anton Walbrook, Dorothea Wieck, and Josef Fenneker in L'étudiant de Prague (1935)
    L'étudiant de Prague
    6.8
    • Julia (singing voice)
    • 1935

Soundtrack



  • Suuri illusioni (1985)
    Suuri illusioni
    4.0
    • performer: "Warum"
    • 1985
  • Hollywood... Hollywood ! (1976)
    Hollywood... Hollywood !
    7.3
    • performer: "Tales From The Vienna Woods" (1868) (uncredited)
    • 1976
  • Soldats inconnus (1955)
    Soldats inconnus
    8.0
    • performer: "Warum"
    • 1955
  • MGM Parade (1955)
    MGM Parade
    6.4
    TV Series
    • performer: "Tales From the Vienna Woods"
    • performer: "Tales From the Vienna Woods, Op.325"
    • 1955
  • Fernand Gravey, Miliza Korjus, and Luise Rainer in Toute la ville danse (1938)
    Toute la ville danse
    6.4
    • performer: "Tales From the Vienna Woods, Op.325" (1868), "There'll Come a Time", "Die Fledermaus (The Bat)" (1874) ("One Day When We Were Young" (1885), uncredited)
    • 1938
  • Theo Mackeben, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Erich Fiedler, Edna Greyff, Fritz Klotsch, Hans Kyser, Theodor Loos, Arthur Robison, Anton Walbrook, Dorothea Wieck, and Josef Fenneker in L'étudiant de Prague (1935)
    L'étudiant de Prague
    6.8
    • performer: "Es zogen zwei Spielleut' im Land herum", "Warum?", "O säume länger nicht, geliebte Seele" (Deh vieni, non-tardar)
    • 1935

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    • 1.73 m
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    • August 18, 1909
    • Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]
  • Died
    • August 26, 1980
    • Culver City, California, USA(heart attack)
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      Dr. Walter E. ShectorJuly 18, 1952 - ?
  • Other works
    Stage musical: Rose-Marie - as Countess Baranskaya, at the Greek Theater in Griffith Park, Los Angeles
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