Lidia Wysocka
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Lidia Wysocka in Złota Maska, 1939
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| Born |
June 24, 1916 Rogachev, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | January 2, 2006 (aged 89) Warsaw, Poland |
| Occupation | Actress, singer, voice actor, director |
| Spouse(s) | Zbigniew Sawan (1943–1984; his death) |
Lidia Wysocka (June 24, 1916 – January 2, 2006) was a Polish stage, film and voice actress, singer, cabaret performer and creative director, theatre director and costume designer, editorialist.
In 1934 she dubbed Madeleine Carroll's voice in the British film I Was a Spy (1933), the first movie dubbed in Poland (Siostra Marta jest szpiegiem).
The production of her 9th movie, Szczęście przychodzi kiedy chce (directed by Mieczysław Krawicz) was cancelled by the outbreak of World War II. She was invited to star in another movie, Jacek Bławut's Lili (production title), telling the story of veteran actors, but it was still in pre-production phase at the time of her death; it was finally completed as Jeszcze nie wieczór as late as in 2008.
(daily dates for premiere performances only)
One of the top finalists of the beauty contest organized by the Kino magazine in 1933. After recording a dubbing, she debuted on film in 1935 while she was still studying acting under Aleksander Zelwerowicz (who was very reluctant to allow his students to start their acting career before they finish school). Graduated Państwowy Instytut Sztuki Teatralnej (State Institute of Theatrical Arts, Warsaw) in 1936. Debuted on stage in Polish Theatre in Warsaw in 1936 (with Dickens' The Pickwick Papers as Mary, starting a three-year contract), where she performed until the war.
Her movie roles included singing parts; the songs she performed were available on gramophone record released by Syrena Record as early as in 1936.
Her admirers could hear her not only on Polskie Radio, e.g. from November 1936 she was reading the first serialized novel written for Polish radio, Dni powszednie państwa Kowalskich (The Daily Life of the Kowalskis), released in print in 1938 by Maria Kuncewiczowa), but also by dialing ... the speaking clock number (she was the voice of the improved telephone device launched in Poland, in 1936).
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