Career
Born in New York City to Catholic Russian parents, the beautiful Anya Taranda became a Powers Agency model where she was signed as one of the original Breck Shampoo models. In 1932, she met composer Harold Arlen in New York City during the Broadway theatre production of Earl Carroll"s Vanities. In 1934 she appeared in her first of nine film roles in an uncredited part of an "Earl Carroll girl" in Murder at the Vanities, based on Carroll"s Broadway play.
Anya Taranda-Arlen died from a brain tumor in 1970.
She is interred next to her husband in the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New New York