Actress Berta Singerman, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Actress Berta Singerman, 1934

Date Created

March 1934

Date

1934-03

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Close-up photograph of actress Berta Singerman
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.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Singerman, Berta. Actress, 1934
Handwritten on negative: Berta Singerman

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Dimensions

4 x 5 inches

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

Portrait photographs
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Singerman, Berta

Resource type

still image

Subjects

People
Actresses--Argentinian--United States--Los Angeles
Entertainment