Margo Lion

When it comes to Berliner cabaret, one almost instinctively thinks of the great Marlene Dietrich. But she was not the only star in that heaven, far from it.
 

Marguerite "Margo" Lion, born in Istanbul in 1899, was a French actress and singer. She arrived in Berlin in 1921 and debuted in the cabaret 'Die Wilde Bühne' in 1923. She also appeared in such iconic cabarets as Schall und Rauch and Kabarett der Komiker.

She was married to lyricist Marcellus Schiffer and was a friend of Marlene Dietrich. In the magazine "It's in the Air" (1928), she sang with Marlene the duet "Wenn Die beste Freundin mit die Beste Freundin "(when the best girlfriend with the best girlfriend ...), which became a lesbian hymn in the 1920s.

In cinema, she played in seventy-five films between 1926 and 1975 and found her most significant role in 1931 in Georg Wilhelm Pabst's The Three-penny Opera (French version) in which Margo, in the role of Jenny, sings The Bride of the Pirate.

She also starred in the film "24 Hours of a Woman's Life," based on a text by Stefan Zweig, Robert Land's board in 1931.

She left Berlin in 1933 and continued her career in France. There, among other productions, she appeared in La Bandera, by Julien Duvivier (1935). Also in Lola, by Jacques Demy.

She died in 1989, a little too early to enjoy the sight of the Berlin Wall collapsing.