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- Vera Schwarz was born on July 10, 1888 in Agram, Croatia, Austria-Hungary. She was an actress, known for Figaros Hochzeit (1920), The Last Waltz (1953) and Wir tanzen auf dem Regenbogen (1952). She died on December 4, 1964 in Vienna, Austria.
- In 2011, a street in Vienna's 23rd district was named Vera-Schwarz-Gasse in her honour.
- Having Jewish paternal grandparents, Schwarz was forced to leave Germany in 1933.
- Vera Schwarz returned to Vienna in 1948, teaching and giving masterclasses in the Salzburg Mozarteum.
- After the war she returned to Austria in 1948 back to her former domain. There she worked as a vocal teacher henceforth and in the 50s she even appeared in two more movies.
- Some respected sources (including Kutsch, K.J. & Riemens, Leo: 'Grosses Sängerlexicon', Franke Verlag, Bern and Stuttgart, 1987 Edition, Page 2697 - which further fails to mention that she ever sang in Paganini) claim that she also appeared with Tauber in Lehar's Der Zarewitsch, but this is incorrect. The 1927 operetta has only two soprano singing roles; one an ingénue role, played originally by de:Rita Georg, and the other a soubrette part, played by Charlotte Ander. There is simply no part in this operetta for a singer of Schwarz's voice and stature.
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