Wiera Gran & Orkiestra taneczna Syrena Rekord – Orchidea (Orchids In The Moonlight) z filmu “Flying Down To Rio” (Youmans /Jerry), Syrena-Electro 1935 NOTE: Wiera Gran was one of the most fascinating personalities in the history of Polish song. A rising great star shortly before the onset of WWII, she continued her career during the nazi occupation of Poland, singing in the cafes or on the concerts in the Warsaw Ghetto and becoming a living legend of her time. With a help of her husband, who was a Polish doctor, she managed to survive the Holocaust on so-called “aryan” side in the Warsaw suburbs, to live up to the most terrible time of her life, that started immediately after the end of war, when she was accused by her compatriots of being a “Gestapo-collaborator” during the war. The decades to come meant for her a desperate struggle to regain her good fame and artistic position, in which she never succeeded. Bitter and disillusioned, she died in 2007 in old people’s home near Paris. She managed to describe her tragic life as victim of accusations that have never been justified or documented – in her book “A Raly Of Caluminators” (1981). Available are in YT several recordings of Wiera Gran, with a lot of biographical infos about her. The best known American version of that great tune is by Rudy Vallee www.youtube.com