Maria Corda

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María Corda (photography by Alexander Binder )

María Corda , actually Mária Antónia Farkas , also Maria Korda (born May 4, 1898 in Déva , Austria-Hungary , † February 15, 1976 in Thônex , Switzerland ), was a Hungarian silent film star in Austria and Germany .

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In the early phase of the First World War she began acting at the Budapest theater and shortly after Hungary's declaration of independence also starred in film . There she quickly made a career and followed her husband at the time, the film director Alexander Korda , to Vienna when he had to flee after the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet Republic. In Vienna he made her the star of Austrian silent films. In the pompous monumental films such as Samson and Delila (1922) or Die Sklavenkönigin (1924), she staged herself as the leading actress with her great gesture and suffering tragedy mine. As a slave queen , she also starred in a film by Michael Curtiz , also from Hungary , who had previously preferred his own wife, Lucy Doraine , as the leading actress.

She starred in an Italian monumental film in The Last Days of Pompeii . In 1926 she followed her husband to Berlin, in 1927 they moved on to Hollywood. There she played in her husband's first productions, but had little success. With the beginning of the sound film age, she ended her career, not least because she spoke poor English. She temporarily returned to Europe and starred in one British and two insignificant German productions. She divorced Alexander Korda, moved to New York and tried her hand at writing a novel there. She spent her late years near Geneva in Switzerland.

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SURNAME Corda, María
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Farkas, Mária Antónia (real name); Korda, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Déva , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 15th February 1976
Place of death Thônex , Switzerland