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Fritzi Scheff (1879-1954) was an American actress and vocalist, born in Vienna, Austria. She studied at Hoch's Conservatoire at Frankfort and made her début at Munich in the title röle of Martha (1898). In 1901 she first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, singing parts in La Bohème, Die Meistersinger, Die Walküre, and Don Giovanni. She sang in the opera Babette at Washington and New York (1903), had an immense success as Fifi in Mlle. Modiste (1905-08 and 1913) and appeared also in The Prima Donna (1908), The Mikado (1910), The Duchess (1911), and The Love Wager (1912). Later she sang in vaudeville. She married, first, Baron Fritz von Bardeleben, then John Fox, Jr., and, in 1912, John Anderson, an actor.
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