最初在歌舞剧中扮演女丑角和演唱，又和哥哥、妹妹在夜总会中表演。1935年进入百老汇加入齐格飞歌舞团，参加演出。1936年登上大银幕，在歌舞片导演巴斯比·伯克利的《蔷薇处处开》里演员。曾任全国广播公司的广播节目演出达12年，1946年5月当选最幽默的广播明星。1976年，在她退隐多年去从事电视演出后，又重新登上大银幕，在《炮弹飞车》中演出。
Leonid Kinskey, originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, performed across Europe and much of Latin America before his arrival in the United States. By 1932 he landed a small role as a radical in Ernst Lubitsch's comedy, Trouble in Paradise (1932). The next year he played an agitator in Duck Soup (1933). He went on to play small parts, nearly always foreigners and often comedic, in over sixty films, including Genflou in Les Misérables (1935), the snake charmer in the well-known scene from The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), an Arab in The Garden of Allah (1936), Ivan in The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938), and Pierre in That Night in Rio (1941). His final film role was Dominiwski in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955). Kinskey's most famous role was as Sascha, the humorous bartender at Rick's Cafe Americaine, in Casablanca (1942). The part had originally been given to Leon Mostovoy; Kinskey replaced him because (1) he was funnier than Mostovoy, and (2) by his own testimony, he was a drinking buddy of the star Humphrey Bogart. His contract guaranteed him two weeks at $750 a week. He died on 8 September 1998, in Fountain Hills, Arizona, aged 95.
