Fritzi Massary
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Fritzi Massary (born 31 March 1882 in Vienna, Austria; died 30 January 1969 in Los Angeles, California) was an Austrian-American soprano.
Born as Friederike Massaryk, she was one of the leading singers in operetta in Berlin and Vienna. She was closely associated with Oscar Straus, creating roles in six of his operettas, notably Der letzte Walzer in 1920.
Following the rise of the Nazis, she as a Jew was forced to flee; she went to London in 1933, where she was befriended by Sir Noel Coward and starred in his Operette in 1938. She then moved to California, where she died.
Massaryk was married twice. Her second marriage was to the Austrian actor Max Pallenberg.
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