Käthe von Nagy

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Käthe von Nagy in an Argentine magazine (1932)

Käthe von Nagy ( pronunciation : [ nɔɟ ], born Ekaterina Nagy von Cziser , also Kate David , Kate de Nagy , Kitty Fattini and Kató Nagy ; born April 4, 1904 in Szabadka , Austria-Hungary , † December 20, 1973 in Los Angeles , California , USA ) was a Hungarian actress .

Life and movies

Käthe von Nagy, daughter of a bank director, shortly after high school attended a convent school (Sancta Christiana in Frohsdorf near Vienna) and then another boarding school in Transylvania . She initially wanted to be a writer and therefore moved - unusual at the time for a young woman - to Budapest alone , where she was able to publish a few novels in a magazine and attended the drama school of Béla Gáal . The father had her brought back and gave her a job in one of his offices. In the end, however, she was able to implement her career aspiration and went to Berlin , where she worked as a correspondent for the Hungarian newspaper Pesti Hírlap . After numerous unsuccessful applications, she received her first film engagement at Sternheim-Film GmbH in 1927, a supporting role in Constantin J. David's comedy Men Before Marriage , in which Grethe Weiser also made her film debut. Käthe von Nagy played the first leading role in 1927/28 in the comedy Die Durchgangsin, produced by Seymour Nebenzahl and Joe May . Other leading roles followed in the films Mascottchen (1929) and Her Majesty the Love (1930). In 1930 she appeared in Robert Wiene's first sound film, the Jekyll-and-Hyde drama Der Andere, as a resolute half-world lady with psychotherapeutic skills.

Since 1931, Käthe von Nagy, who fell out of the ordinary due to her cheeky temperament and distinctive, somewhat exotic appearance, was in front of the camera for Ufa : first in Kurt Gerron's comedy Meine Frau, die Hochstaplerin (with Heinz Rühmann ) and in Her Highness commands (with Willy Fritsch ). She then played leading roles in the films Der Sieger (1932, with Hans Albers ), Ich bei Tag und Du bei Nacht (1932, with Willy Fritsch) and shortly after the National Socialist government came to power in the anti-Soviet propaganda film Refugees (with Hans Albers). More leading roles followed in the films The Young Baron Neuhaus (1934, with Viktor de Kowa ), Being a Great Lady (1934, with Wolf Albach-Retty ), The Daughters of Your Excellency (with Willy Fritsch), The Girlfriend of a Great Man ( with Karl Ludwig Diehl ), Princess Turandot (1934, with Willy Fritsch), Liebe, Tod und Teufel (with Albin Skoda and Brigitte Horney ), Ave Maria (with Beniamino Gigli ), Am seidenen Faden (with Willy Fritsch), Our little woman (with Albert Matterstock ), saloon car E 417 and Renate in a quartet (with Gustav Fröhlich ).

From 1939 onwards, Käthe von Nagy, who spoke French, had previously worked repeatedly in French, Italian and Austrian film productions and had lived in Paris with her second husband since 1935 , only worked in France. In a German film, she only appeared again as a supporting actress in 1952.

Käthe von Nagy, whose first marriage was to the director Constantin J. David and her second marriage to the French Jacques Fattini, died in 1973 near Los Angeles of cancer.

Filmography (selection)

Singing / shellac recordings

  • When I go to my cinema on Sundays. 1932 (from: Me by day and you by night ), film and shellac version

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Nagy, Käthe von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cziser, Ekaterina Nagy von (maiden name); David, Kate; Nagy, Kate de; Fattini, Kitty; Nagy, Kató
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Szabadka , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 20th December 1973
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States