Felicia Montealegre Cause Of Death

Felicia Cohn Montealegre, born in San Jose, Costa Rica, was a Chilean-American theatre and television actress. She was married to the American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein from 1951 until her death.

Felicia Montealegre died of lung cancer in East Hampton, New York, in 1978, aged 56.

Montealegre’s voice can be heard in two pieces conducted by Bernstein: his own Kaddish Symphony and a largely in English rendition of Debussy’s Le martyre de Saint Sébastien.

Montealegre also participated in various television dramas, notably a Kraft Television Theatre adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in 1950, in which she played Nora

Montealegre also appeared on television in a 1949 CBS teleplay part of the “Studio One” series based on Somerset Maugham’s novel Of Human Bondage, in which she portrayed Mildred opposite Charlton Heston as Philip Carey.

She did not appear in many feature films, but she did play Poor Murderer on Broadway in 1976.