- Daughter Elisabeth Lustig
- Mother-in-law of Bruno Frank.
- Her first cinematical experiences came off because of her fame as a singer.
- She appeared in London and Vienna before she went to Hollywood. There she lived in the circle of the Feuchtwanger's, Mann's, Werfel's and Lubitsch's for decades.
- She made her debut on the stage in Vienna in 1898. Sie refined her vocal abilities in the next years and soon belonged to the most elegant performers of her time.
- She was one of the leading operetta singers in Berlin and Vienna.
- Her popularity was such great that she even had an important impact to the fashion of this time.
- Her glory wasn't based on her acting abilities, but rather on her voice which raised her to the most popular operetta star of the golden 20's.
- Massary was married twice, first to an eye doctor Bernhard Pollack. With Karl-Kuno Rollo Graf von Coudenhove (1887-1940), she had her only child, Elisabeth Maria Karl (called Liesl) (1903-1979). Liesl later married the author Bruno Frank. Though Coudenhove was Liesl's father, Massary was never married to him.
- Massary's second marriage, in 1917, was to the Austrian actor Max Pallenberg (1877-1934), who died in a plane crash in Karlsbad in 1934.
- Her career came to an abrupt end when she became a butt of the anti-Semitic propaganda because of her Jewish marriage with actor Max Pallenberg. She had to leave Germany.
- She traveled through Austria and Switzerland to London, where she was befriended by Sir Noël Coward and starred in his Operette in 1938.
- Beginning in 1952, she regularly spent summers in Germany.
- In February 1939, she moved to Beverly Hills, California, where she lived until her death in 1969.
- She lost everything in 1932: her adopted country Berlin, her occupation and one year later also her husband who was killed in an air crash.
- She was closely associated with Oscar Straus, creating roles in six of his operettas, including Der letzte Walzer in 1920.
- In so-called "sound pictures" she appeared in "Komm du kleines Kohlenmädchen" (1907), "Trallala Lied" (1908), "Schutzmannslied" (1908), "Entrée der Messalinette" (1908), "Donnerwetter, tadellos" (08) and "Auf ins Metropol" (1908).
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