Going to Maxim

Johan Marius Nicolaas “Johannes” Heesters (5 December 1903 – 24 December 2011) spent 90 years on stage. You can´t beat that.

His signature tune was Count Danilo Danilovitch’s entrance song “Da geh’ ich ins Maxim” from Franz Lehár’s Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow).

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