Nadia Gray

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Excerpt from the poster for the film Stallion Maestoso Austria (1956), Paul Klinger and Nadia Gray ( German postage stamp from 2007 )

Nadia Gray (actually Nadia Kujnir-Herescu ; born November 23, 1923 in Bucharest , † June 13, 1994 in New York ) was a Romanian - Austrian actress .

Life

The daughter of a Russian refugee and a Bessarabian mother began performing on stages in Bucharest towards the end of the Second World War. In 1946 she married the Romanian Prince Constantin Cantacuzino (1905-1958), who had earned a reputation as a so-called flying ace during World War II . The couple met on a flight for a Romanian airline (she as a passenger, he as a pilot), which almost crashed due to a burning engine. When the Communists came to power in 1947, she and her husband left the country and went to France via Austria. There she called herself Nadia Gray and made her stage debut in Paris that same year.

She made her film debut in 1949 as Nadine Gray in the Austrian feature film Rosen der Liebe / His Highness May Not Kiss , opposite OW Fischer and Siegfried Breuer . In the film she mostly played elegant, seductive women of the world. In Fellini's classic The Sweet Life , she performed a striptease . In the late 1960s she went to America, where she married the New York lawyer Herbert Silverman in 1967, nine years after the death of her first husband. She retired from the film business in 1976 and from then on appeared as a singer in cabaret shows.

Nadia Gray died of a stroke in Manhattan in 1994 . She left behind her husband and two stepchildren.

A German special postage stamp issued on June 14, 2007, dedicated to the 100th birthday of Paul Klinger , shows an excerpt from the film poster for “Stallion Maestoso Austria”, on which Nadia Gray can be seen together with Paul Klinger.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1949: darling of the world
  • 1949: The Master Thief of Paris (The Spider and the Fly)
  • 1949: Monseigneur
  • 1951: Wolves in the Night (Valley of Eagles)
  • 1951: Night without Stars
  • 1951: Woman for one night (Moglie per una notte)
  • 1952: Meeting point Moscow (Top Secret)
  • 1952: Crossed blades (Il maestro di Don Giovanni)
  • 1952: Why did you cheat on me? (Inganno)
  • 1953: Puccini - darling of women, master of melodies (Puccini)
  • 1953: The Son of the White Devil (Ivan il figlio del diavolo)
  • 1954: The beggar of Notre Dame (Le due orfanelle)
  • 1954: Carousel Naples (Carosello napoletano)
  • 1954: Serenade for two pistols (Les femmes s'en balancent)
  • 1954: The Ricordi House (Casa Ricordi)
  • 1955: Casanova - his love and adventure (Les aventures et les amours amours de Casanova)
  • 1955: Apartment with every comfort
  • 1955: Music in the blood
  • 1956: The fisherman of the golden island (Agguato sul mare)
  • 1956: The golden falcon (Il falco d'oro)
  • 1956: Stallion Maestoso Austria
  • 1956: Paradise of Love (Folies Bergère)
  • 1956: With bowler hat and ice cream gloves (Parola di ladro)
  • 1957: Sénéchal is the greatest (Sénéchal, le magnifique)
  • 1957: The black devil (Il diavolo nero)
  • 1957: My beautiful mom
  • 1957: Holidays on the sunny island
  • 1959: Wilder Sommer (L'estate violenta)
  • 1959: The sweet life (La dolce vita)
  • 1960: Candide or optimism in the 20th century (Candide ou l'optimisme au XXième siècle)
  • 1961: Paris - City of Temptation
  • 1962: When both are guilty
  • 1963: The Boiled Out (Maniac)
  • 1963: Two whiskeys and a sofa
  • 1963: Meeting in Salzburg
  • 1965: The Adventurer of Tortuga (L'avventuriero della Tortuga)
  • 1965: One time is billed (The Crooked Road)
  • 1966: Winnetou and his friend Old Firehand
  • 1966: The Naked Runner
  • 1967: The oldest trade in the world (Le plus vieux métier du monde)
  • 1967: Two for the Road (Two for the Road)

Web links

Commons : Nadia Gray  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Other information on the date and place of birth: November 16, 1919 in Berlin ( Kay Less : Das Großes Personenlexikon des Films. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag)
personal data
SURNAME Gray, Nadia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kujnir-Herescu, Nadja (real name); Gray, Nadja; Gray, Nadine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest , Romania
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1994
Place of death New York City , New York , United States