Hanka Ordonówna & Eugeniusz Bodo - Rumbolero, 1935

Rumbolero (Muz. Komyati /Tekst: Włast) Rumba-bolero z operetki "Gwiazda areny" (Rumba /bolero from operetta "Star Of Arena") - Hanka Ordonówna & Eugeniusz Bodo z towarzyszeniem orkiestry Syrena Rekord (acc. by Syrena Rekord Orchestra), Syrena-Electro 1935 (Polish)
NOTE: It's a very rare duet: two Number One stars of Polish song before 1939, singing - and recording! - together. Information for the younger visitors in my site: Hanka Ordonówna was a brightest star among Polish singers and cabaret actors in Warsaw before the 2nd World War (September 1939). Her popularity and her class can be compared with that of Lucienne Boyer in France of the 1930s. If Ordonówna was "Polish Lucienne Boyer", so Eugeniusz Bodo - a film and cabaret actor and singer - must be compared to Maurice Chevalier. Yet, while Boyer and Chevalier after 1945 could peacefully contuinue their artistic development and wondertful careers throughout Europe and the world - these two Polish artists shared sad fate of the whole Polish nation, whioch after the War was ended, was betrayed by Western allies and left to die in hands of Josef Stalin.
Eugenisz Bodo died of hunger in Kotlas - Soviet concentration camp in far North of Russia. Hanka Ordonówna, who also got into Soviet hands, managed,, hovever, to get out from Russia after 1945 - only to die a few years later in Beyrouth (Liban) from lung tuberculosis she got during her stay in Russia.

[@bibibibi1045]

Dzięki. Ciągle zaskakują mnie nowe utwory, które pierwszy raz słyszę

[@magdoos]

Cały słownik słów określających wspaniałość nie starczyłby na wyrażenie jak cudowne jest to co Pan robi, Panie Grzegorzu, dzieląc się z nami tymi wszystkimi wspaniałymi utworami i wiadomościami o wykonaniach oraz wykonawcach. Słow brak również na opisanie duetu pięknej Ordonówny i najlepszego z najlepszych- Bodo!

[@barbarapersson1391]

Ale byla klasa przedwojenna 🇵🇱❤️❤️

[@tango3721]

Hello Grzegorz - This vid is a real gem - for your sophisticated fans who know the famous performers. Ordonowna was a great star - a great talent - it's a shame that she had to suffer so much towards the end of her life. The movie about her life - would be a smash!

[@fatsfan70]

Very enjoyable and good to hear our old aquaintance Eugeniusz Bodo on record and so handsome in the stills when not in movie drag makeup. Such a sad end for them both.

[@barbcard]

Another brilliant meld of cultures. Hanka was incomparable; a pity she didn't live longer.

[@klaudiasmyk2258]

Wspaniałe!

[@mariazarzycka2666]

wspaniałe? ZAJEBISTE!

[@240252]

@tiarabozen Cieszę się, że się spodobało. Pozdrawiam!

[@240252]

@fatsfan70 Hi fatsfan! Good to see you again! I just wrote to dzegher a few words about Bodo and his peculiar tastes (hand-weaving). What a charming person he was. And what was his end! Just imagine - he, in his Mae West' disguise in 1936, and just a few years later - he in a polar work camp somewhere in Russia, dying of hunger. What a world, indeed...

[@BraitbartThomas]

no coz...codowne stare piosenki..

[@240252]

@dzheger He had strong emotional ties with his mother. He always declared, he has no woman for "he loves all and he can't choose a one". His favourite gift he offered to his friends was a handkerchief, hand-woven by himself. A couple of times he was awarded a title "Master Of Elegance". His life role forever recorded in memories of thankful fans from long ago as well as today - was "Polish Mae West" in comedy "Upstairs" with his travestie show like noone did in the world in his times..

[@240252]

@mrfuddlesby Thank you! :-)

[@240252]

@genia106 I love that photo at 2:16. It's almost her farewell - look at the date, June 1939! She looks like just ready for a long jurney - which factually came 3 months later. Taking her from that happy little world of Qui Pro Quo, Adria away into the cold of Russia, to work camps, finally - disease and death. You know? her grave in Beyrouth was once visited by her prewar colleague singer, Mira Ziminska. She laid her violets and said: Perhaps you were greater, but I'm alive

[@240252]

@barbcard In her last years in Beyrouth she painted. A friend of mine in Zakopane has one of her delicate aquarelles (artistically it was nothing special - but it was HER!). According to rumors she recorded a few things in Russia and also after war, but I never heard anything but her prewar renditions. Because of lung disease she could have been going thru respiratory problems and her tiny voice must have became even tiner from that. Poor, lovely, clever and good-hearted girl

[@samuan001]

I have read in a book about Polish pre-war stars that she had actually recorded something after the war for Polish-American audience but she was told that the records were of poor quality, so they wouldn't be released and she wouldn't be paid for them. Later, it came out that they were in fact released in South America (I guess, if I remember correctly), therefore to some extent she was betrayed. While she had been recording, she had already been of poor health and even the records themselves consisted of her phrases from recording sessions, like "I'm tired, that's enough".

[@240252]

@tango3721 Hi Lanma, such biograhy move was actually made in 1981 with Dorota Stalińska as Ordonówna! That choice was, ofcourse, a disaster. Stalińska - a rather vulgar kind of a "beauty" - was not able to incarnate into that fragile, poetical yet very strong personality. And the script was so banal.