Fritzi Massary

In late 1932, she departed Germany due to the rising persecution of the Jewish population by the Nazis, shortly before the group seized dictatorial power in a paramilitary revolution and declared the Third Reich.

Traveling through Austria and Switzerland, she went to London, where she was befriended by Noël Coward and starred in his theatrical musical Operette in 1938.

In February 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II engulfed Europe, she moved to Beverly Hills, California.

She had been suggested by Cecil Beaton for the role of the Queen of Transylvannia in the 1964 musical film My Fair Lady, but she demanded too much pay,[2] and the part went to Bina Rothschild.

With Karl-Kuno Rollo Graf von Coudenhove (1887–1940), she had her only child, Elisabeth Maria Karl (called Liesl) (1903–1979).