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- Leona_Anderson abstract "Leona Anderson (3 April 1885 – 25 December 1973) was an American silent film actress who is possibly best recalled for her 1957 shrill music album Music to Suffer By.She was born Leona Aronson on 3 April 1885 in St. Louis, Missouri, the younger sister of Broncho Billy Anderson, who co-founded Essanay Studios in Chicago in 1907. She appeared in several films for Essanay Studios without much success beginning in 1914.During the early 1950s, Anderson revived her career in music, billing herself as "the world's most horrible singer" and becoming a favorite of comedian Ernie Kovacs and appearing several times on The Ernie Kovacs Show. Kovacs' widow, Edie Adams, later recalled that "She (Anderson) knew she was camp, but she was very funny, and very sweet." Music critic Ned Raggett asserts "hearing her crack, strain, burble, and otherwise demonstrate that her singing voice is completely surplus to any requirements might either be seizure-inducing or seizure-removing, depending on how you place your speakers."In the mid-1950s, Anderson recorded a single, "Fish," for a small New York City record label. The song would later appear on 1997 CD collection The Ernie Kovacs Record Collection. This was followed by the comedic album Music to Suffer By on Unique Records in 1957, later reissued in 2011 on Trunk Records. Music to Suffer By featured Anderson slaughtering several classics and standards, such as Georges Bizet's "Habanera" from Carmen and Cole Porter's "I Love Paris", as well as new material such as "Rats in My Room" and "Limburger Lover." By the late 1950s, she had become widely known for her bad singing, which was apparently an act she created to mock the pompous style of serious opera singers; "Opera singers just can't kid themselves properly ... they can never let their voices go," Anderson was quoted as saying.Anderson's final film appearance was in the 1959 William Castle-directed horror film House on Haunted Hill, starring Vincent Price. She died on 25 December 1973 in Fremont, California.".
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