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Lily Pons
Sign in to saveAmerican opera singer and actress (1898-1976)
Film & TV
Draguignan, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Alice Joséphine Pons, known professionally as Lily Pons, was a French-American operatic soprano and actress who had an active career from the late 1920s through the early 1970s. As an opera singer she specialized in the coloratura soprano repertoire and was particularly associated with the title roles in Lakmé and Lucia di Lammermoor. In addition to appearing as a guest artist with many opera…
Known for
- This Is Your Life — Self1952
- The Colgate Comedy Hour — Self1950
- The Bob Hope Show — Self1950
- What's My Line? — Self1950
- The Ed Sullivan Show — Self1948
- Carnegie Hall — Lily Pons1947
- Hitting a New High — Suzette1937
- That Girl from Paris — Nikki Martin1936
- I Dream Too Much — Annette Monard1935
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lily
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Draguignan
- Place of death
- Dallas
- Spouse
- Andre Kostelanetz
- Occupation
- film actor
- Educated at
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- opera
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Lily Pons, NPG 97 214 (cropped).jpg
- Voice type
- coloratura soprano
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- place of burial
- Cannes (Grand Jas) Cemetery
- Commons category
- Lily Pons
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- date of birth
- 1898-04-12
- date of death
- 1976-02-13
- Fach vocal classification
- coloratura soprano
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Lily Pons
- start of work period
- 1928-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- birth name
- Alice Joséphine Pons
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