Felicia Montealegre (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Felicia Cohn Montealegre (born 6 February 1922, Chile - died 16 June 1978, East Hampton, New York) was a stage and television actress. From 1951 until her death, she was the wife of American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Born to Roy Cohn, the head of the American Smelting and Refining Company (not to be confused with Roy Cohn, the aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy) in Santiago, Chile, Felicia Cohn Montealegre established herself in New York. She studied piano with Claudio Arrau and met composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein at a party Arrau gave in 1946. She and Bernstein became engaged to be married but this was broken off.