Oskar Dénes

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Oskar Dénes, 1938

Oskar Dénes (actually: Oszkar Dénes ; born May 2, 1891 in Magyarkeszi, Hungary , † July 2, 1950 in Trento , Italy ) was a Hungarian actor and singer.

Life

Oskar Dénes played in his first feature film in 1919: Tegnap , directed by Lajos Lázár . In the following years he made a name for himself first as a film actor, then as an operetta buffo and stage actor. He celebrated his greatest successes together with his wife Rosy Barsony in the early 1930s in Berlin . The operetta composer Paul Abraham had brought the couple from Budapest to the Spree for his operetta Viktoria und Her Husar . The two became absolute crowd pleasers. In a contemporary review it is said: Rosy Barsony is “an operetta soubrette of the very first order that has not existed for a long time. But in Oskar Dénes she also has an unusual partner. His quick-witted amusement, his dance-like verve, his pointed art of presentation (specialty salmon songs) have not been unparalleled since Giampietro's days. In his way of gushing out all sorts of nonsense, he is a hill fort of operetta . ”Oskar Dénes continued to play theater in Budapest and Vienna in the 1930s, after he - like Paul Abraham - had left Berlin . However, there was resistance from trade unions in Austria because allegedly too many Hungarian artists were employed on Austrian theaters. Both in the operetta and in the film of the same name Roxy and the Wonder Team (of which there was a Hungarian and an Austrian version) he was celebrated again, then it became quiet around him - at least internationally. After the Second World War he lived in Vienna and Trento, Italy .

Filmography

  • 1919: Tegnap (directed by Lajos Lázár)
  • 1919: A lélekidomár (directed by Márton Garas)
  • 1920: Névtelen vár (Directed by Márton Garas)
  • 1920: Hegyek alján (Direction Béla Balogh)
  • 1920: Hétszás éves szerelem (directed by Márton Garas)
  • 1922: The Living Mummy (Directed by Márton Garas)
  • 1923: Farsangi mámor (Directed by Márton Garas)
  • 1935: Ball in the Savoy (Director: Steve Sekely)
  • 1937: 3: 1 a szerelem jávára (directed by Johann von Vásáry)
  • 1938: Roxy and the wonder team , also called: 3: 1 for love (directed by Johann von Vásáry)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost, December 25, 1932, quoted from: Daniel Hirschel: Paul Abraham. In: Wolfgang Schaller (Ed.): Operetta under the swastika. Between acceptable art and “degeneration”. Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2007.
  2. ↑ Angela Eder: I'd rather be among four in Hollywood than among the forty thousand at the cemetery . kakanien.ac.at; Retrieved September 27, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Dénes, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dénes, Oszkar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian actor and singer
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Magyarkeszi, Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 1950
Place of death Trento , Italy