Leni Stengel

Leni Stengel, born Magdalene Riechers, was a German-born American actress and singer who appeared on stage, television, and in films, from the 1920s through the 1950s. Born in Oldenburg in 1901, she immigrated to the United States in 1906 and later became a naturalized American citizen after her marriage to the film director Boris Ingster in 1930. She had previously been married to the American cartoonist Hans Stengel who committed suicide two years after their divorce in 1926. Her marriage to Ingster also ended in divorce in 1937. She was later married to Robert A. Scott from 1938 until Scott's death in 1956.