Katalin Karády

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Katalin Karády around 1940

Katalin Karády (originally Kanczler , Hungarian name form Karády Katalin , ˈkɒraːdi ˈkɒtɒlin ) (born December 8, 1910 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † February 8, 1990 in New York City ) was an actress and singer . She is considered the most famous female film star in Hungary in the 1940s.

Life

Karády came from the smallest of backgrounds in the proletarian Budapest suburb of Kőbánya. Her father, a cobbler, was seen as an aggressive domestic tyrant. Katalin Karády first attended a business school. After a failed marriage with a considerably older man, she turned to acting and appeared in the Budapest theaters Vígszínház and Pesti színház . Finally, her 20 great feature films, shot between 1939 and 1948, consolidated Karády's fame as a femme fatale with a fascinating erotic charisma, which was underlined by her expressive alto voice , which was on a par with the voice of Zarah Leander or Marlene Dietrich . One of her frequent film partners was Pál Jávor , the biggest male sex symbol in Hungarian film during those years.

Karády's actual career ended in 1944 when she was arrested by the Gestapo on April 18, 1944 , ill-treated and imprisoned for several months. Even before that, Pfeilkreuzler disrupted the concerts of the star, who was considered to be too “Jew-friendly”. After the war Karády only made one film (1948) and emigrated to Brazil in 1951. From 1977 she lived in New York, where she is said to have made a living as a hatter. She consistently turned down requests to return. She died in New York in 1990. In 2004, she was honored by the Yad Vashem Memorial with the title Righteous Among the Nations .

effect

Katalin Karády and Pál Jávor in the film Egy tál lencse (The Lentil Dish ), 1941.

Karády was considered a true shooting star: her first film role in the melodrama Halálos tavasz in 1939 made her a star. After emigrating around the communists' seizure of power in the country, she initially fell out of favor in her home country; she no longer knew the younger generation of the 1950s-1970s. It was not until the beginning of the 1980s that her hits and films were rediscovered in Hungary, especially through the album Sohase mondd (1982) by singer and actress Judit Hernádi , which paid homage to Karády’s attitude and singing style. Life fate of the actress was in 2001 by Péter Bacsó entitled Hamvadó cigarettavég filmed (in ash decaying cigarette end).

Films (selection)

  • 1939: Halálos tavasz (Deadly Spring)
  • 1941: Egy tál lencse (The Lentil Dish )
  • 1941: A szűz és a gödölye (The Virgin and the Fawn)
  • 1943: Ópiumkeringő (Opium Waltz)
  • 1943: Külvárosi őrszoba (police station in the suburbs)
  • 1944 Szováthy Éva (EVA Szováthy)
  • 1944: Valamit visz a víz (Something floats in the water)
  • 1949: Forró mezôk (Hot Meadows)

Web links

Commons : Katalin Karády  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katalin Karády on the website of Yad Vashem (English)
personal data
SURNAME Karády, Katalin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kanczler, Katalin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1990
Place of death New York City , New York , United States