US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-2530
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Actress Berta Singerman seated on a sofa and holding a book or script Berta Singerman was born in the Russian town of Mozir in 1901 and grew up in Argentina. Her father founded Buenos Aires’ first Yiddish-language theater. Singerman was a major star on the Argentinean stage from the 1920s and she toured for decades throughout Latin America, and also appeared onstage in the United States, Europe, and Israel. She also made three movies including the silent film La Vendedora de Harrod’s / Harrod’s Salesgirl (1921), the melodrama Nada más que una mujer / Nothing More Than a Woman (1934), one of the Spanish-language versions of Hollywood films made for export in the 1930s, and one of the four-episode anthology dramas Ceniza al viento / Ashes in the Wind (1942). Singerman was particularly renowned for her poetry recitations, including works by Pablo Neruda, Federico García Lorca, and Juan Ramón Jiménez. Handwritten on negative: Berta Singerman Text from negative sleeve: Singerman, Berta. Actress, 1934
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_2793 ark:/21198/zz002ckh53
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Entertainment Actresses--Argentinian--United States--Los Angeles People Singerman, Berta
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