Happy 68th Birthday to English singer-songwriter-actress Marianne Faithfull ... Born Marian Evelyn Faithfull on 29 December 1946 in Hampstead, London, England. She has quite the family background: Her father, Major Robert Glynn Faithfull, was a British Army officer and Professor of Italian Literature at Bedford College of London University. Her mother, Eva von Sacher-Masoch (Baroness Erisso), was originally from Vienna, Austria. The von Sacher-Masoch family had secretly opposed the Nazi regime in Vienna. Glynn Faithfulls work as an Intelligence Officer for the British Army thus brought him into contact with the von Sacher-Masoch family where he met Eva. Faithfulls maternal grandfather had aristocratic roots in the Habsburg Dynasty and Faithfulls maternal grandmother was Jewish. Erisso was a ballerina for the Max Reinhardt Company during her early years and danced in productions of works by the German theatrical duo Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill. Faithfulls maternal great-great-uncle was Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the 19th-Century Austrian nobleman whose erotic novel, Venus In Furs, spawned the word masochism. Video: Dear God, Please Help Me --- Marianne in live performance with Jools Holland and his band (2009). https://youtube/watch?v=6sm227yiAXA
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 23:02:00 +0000
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