Hanka Ordonówna
Polish actor, singer and dancer
Died when: 47 years 347 days (575 months)Star Sign: Libra
Hanka Ordonówna or Ordonka (born Maria Anna Pietruszynska; 4 August 1902 in Warsaw – 8 September 1950 in Beirut) was a Polish singer, dancer and actress.
She began her career at the age of 16 in a Warsaw cabaret named Sfinks and then the theater Wesoly Ul in Lublin under the stage name Anna Ordon. singing hits still popular today: "O mój rozmarynie", "Rozkwitaly peki bialych róz", and "Ulani, ulani".
When this cabaret closed, Hanka Ordonówna moved to Warsaw and worked at the cabaret Miraz, where she was spotted by , director of the Warsaw cabaret Qui Pro Quo; it was under his guidance that she became a star, recording "Milosc ci wszystko wybaczy" (song by Henryk Wars and Julian Tuwim) in the 1933 movie Szpieg w masce (A Masked Spy).
Another hit was Marian Hemar's Jakies male nic ("Some Little Nothing"), 1934.In 1931, she married Count Michal Tyszkiewicz, who wrote many of her songs.
Though a Countess, she continued to perform on a cabaret stage, and even rode a horse in a circus revue.
She developed lung disease, which plagued her for the rest of her life.She died in 1950 in Beirut.
.jpg?width=300)
