Hanka Ordonówna, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hanka Ordonówna

Polish actress, singer and dancer

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1902

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 08-Sep-1950

Profession: singer, stage actor, film actor

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Hanka Ordonówna or Ordonka (born Maria Anna Pietruszynska; 25 September 1902 in Warsaw – 8 September 1950 in Beirut) was a Polish singer, dancer and actress.
She began her career at age the age of 16 in the Warsaw cabaret 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 noticed by Fryderyk Jarosy, 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 (Spy with a Mask).
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 in cabaret and even ride 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.