Ganna Walska

Ganna Walska was a Polish opera singer and garden enthusiast who created the Lotusland botanical gardens at her mansion in Montecito, California. She was married six times, four times to very wealthy husbands. The lavish promotion of her lackluster opera career by her fourth husband, Harold Fowler McCormick, inspired aspects of the screenplay for Citizen Kane.

Ganna Walska was born Hanna Puacz onJune 1887 in BrestLitovsk, Russian Empire to Napoleon Puacz and Karolina Massalska. Ganna is a Russian form of Hannah, and Walska reminiscent of her favorite music, the waltz.

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