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- Mara Loseff was born on March 13, 1907 in Vladivostok, Russia. She was an actress, known for The Sky's the Limit (1938), Das Land des Lächelns (1930) and Liebeskommando (1931). She died on July 3, 1972 in London, England.
- Her voice was a high, light and sweet soprano - not big or great, but charming, true and technically assured.
- She grew up in protected circumstances but with the October revolution her family had to flee to Japan, two years they went to Berlin.
- She started drinking heavily, which affected her ability to perform. Domestically and professionally, Mary declined rapidly. Richard Tauber detested alcohol, and the nature of the relationship changed. When he married the non-singing British actress Diana Napier in 1936, Mary was devastated and began drinking even more heavily.
- She also bought a farm in Ireland, which was run by her son Dimitri and which she occasionally visited. She tried to bring her mother, brother and sister to Ireland and to England, but failed; she never saw her family again.
- Although she bore an illegitimate son she followed resolute her goal to stay on stage. She took lesson by Bertha Niklal-Kempner and sent her son to a boarding school.
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