‘Ugliest’ singer on film?
mainThe IMDB entry on Lotte Lenya contains the following ‘trivial fact’:
One of the two ugliest women in a James Bond movie. The other being….
Have they no manners, for heaven’s sake?
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Since you ask: No.
They write something even odder: “Lotte Lenya was the inspiration behind Weill’s most popular hit ‘Mack the Knife’.” What on earth might that mean? Was Lenya a serial killer?
She was playing ugly before playing ugly was cool.
Whatever happened to “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”?
As is said in the South, “She’s so ugly she’d make a freight train take a dirt road.”