Lena Zelichowska

Actress

Date of birth : 08/12/1910

Date of death : 10/14/1958

City of birth : Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]

She started out in ballet and moved to musical theatre when she was 19 years old. In the 1930s, she was a sex symbol of Polish cinema. When World War II broke out, she and her husband moved to India, then to San Francisco, California, where she retired from the stage and film and worked as a manicurist. Her husband, a wealthy, British-educated portraitist, committed suicide in 1952, and she died in 1958.