Anya Taranda
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| Born | January 1, 1915 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | March 9, 1970 (aged 55) New York City, New York, U.S. |
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Anya Taranda (January 1, 1915 – March 9, 1970)[actress and the wife of composer Harold Arlen.
Biography
Born in New York City to Catholic Russian parents, Anya Taranda became a
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.[citation needed]
In 1951 she was institutionalized in a sanatorium for seven years after repeatedly threatening her husband and others with physical harm.[1]
She died from a brain tumor, in New York City, at the age of 55.[1] She is interred next to her husband in the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.[citation needed]
References
- ^ ISSN 0028-792X.
External links
- Anya Taranda at IMDb
- Anya Taranda at Find a Grave
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