Dolly Haas

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Dorothy Clara Louise Haas (April 29, 1910 – September 16, 1994). Dolly Haas was a singer and an entertainer who often appeared on Broadway.

Dolly was born in Hamburg, Germany to Jewish parents, Charles Oswald Haas and Margarete Maria Hansen Haas. Her father was an accomplished actor in German cinema before moving to the United States.

Although she didn't appear in many U.S. films, she had a role in the high-profile Alfred Hitchcock film I Confess in 1953. She was a naturalized U.S. citizen.

She married her second husband, famed caricaturist Al Hirschfeld in Baltimore, Maryland in 1943 and they remained happily married until her death from ovarian cancer on September 16, 1994 in New York, New York at the age of 84. They had a daughter, Nina (b. 1945). Her husband lived to age 99, dying in 2002 of natural causes.