Elsie Altmann-Loos (27 December 1899 - 19 May 1984) was an Austrian
dancer, actress and autobiographer.Altmann's debut concert was in
1919. Later that year she became the second wife of modernist
architect Adolf Loos, who was thirty years older than her. Elsie
Altmann starred as Lisa in the original production of Emmerich
Kálmán’s operetta Gräfin Mariza at Theater an der Wien in 1924. A
photograph of her by Madame D'Ora was used to advertise the operetta.
Altmann's dance "projected [an] image of cheerfulness, reinforced by
an elegant taste for Biedermeyer-style costumes".Elsie Altmann later
recalled some of the strain of her relationship with Loos, who would
be imprisoned for child abuse in 1928:The pair divorced in 1926.
Altmann continued her professional connection with Kálmán, playing
Princess Rosemarie Sonjuschka Die Herzogin von Chicago, which
premiered at Theater an der Wien in 1928. Elsie Altmann-Loos Top Movies & Young Movies