Eva Bartok

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Eva Bartok, 1958

Eva Bartok (born June 18, 1927 in Budapest , † August 1, 1998 in London ; born Éva Ivanova Márta Szőke ) was a Hungarian-British actress .

Career

The daughter of a journalist began her career in 1945 at the Belvárosi Theater in Budapest and in 1947 played at the Nemzeti Kamara. She first appeared in front of the camera in a Hungarian film that was not shown for political reasons. In 1948 she left Hungary to move to London. In 1949 she made her cinema debut under her stage name Bartok in the film A Tale of Five Cities . Then she had success as a revue star in Rome. Her international breakthrough as a film actress came in 1952 on the side of Burt Lancaster as Consuelo in The Red Corsair .

In total, she starred in around three dozen films by the mid-1960s, of which 10,000 Bedrooms with Dean Martin , The Doctor of Stalingrad and It Doesn't Always Be Caviar , the latter with OW Fischer , are among her best-known. Above all, she impressed as a classy, ​​seductive black-haired beauty, while tragic roles like Dunja in the remake of Pushkin's The Postmaster were the exception for her. In 1965 she gave a guest appearance as Venus in Paul Lincke's operetta Frau Luna at the Berlin Theater des Westens . Bartok ended her film career with an Icelandic production in 1966 at the age of 39.

Private

Eva Bartok married the Hungarian officer Géza Kovács in 1944. Her second husband was the producer Alexander Paal, who also accompanied her on her escape from Hungary in 1948. She acquired British citizenship through her third marriage to English film director William Wordsworth. Her liaison with David Michael Mountbatten from the Mountbatten family caused a stir . He was a great grandson of Queen Victoria . With great media interest, she married the German actor Curd Jürgens on August 13, 1955 . They divorced on November 6, 1956. In 1957, their daughter Deana was born, which led to speculation about the child's father. From 1980 until the divorce in 1983 Eva Bartok lived with her fifth husband, the American Dag Molin, in Los Angeles.

Bartok, who for years made headlines in the tabloid press as a member of the international jet set, gradually fell into oblivion after the end of her film career. She apparently had no contact with the film business and in later years gave up the name Eva Bartok again. In Java she studied the teachings of the Subud movement. In the early 1970s she worked in Honolulu as a radio station spokeswoman and gave lectures on the Subud ideas.

After the divorce of her last marriage in 1983, she returned to Europe. In the late 1980s and early 1990s she worked as a Dr. Maria Jürgens for an art gallery in San Francisco. Little information is available about Eva Bartok's last few years. In the mid-1990s she apparently lived and worked under the name Eva Juergens in a hotel in the London borough of Paddington . There she died impoverished in 1998 from the consequences of a heart attack.

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SURNAME Bartok, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Szőke, Éva Ivanova Márta (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1998
Place of death London