Käthe von Nagy

Käthe von Nagy (born 4 April 1904 in Szabadka, Austria-Hungary, today Subotica/Serbia), as Ekaterina Nagy von Cziser; † 20 December 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was an Hungarian actress.

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Life History and Films

Käthe Von Nagy, daughter of a bank manager, has short time at a monastery school. She wanted to get married at the age of 16, but her parents put her in the Santa Chrisitana Convent, near Vienna. This was followed by high school in Vienna and then boarding school. She wanted to become an authoress, unusual at that time for a young woman, and went to Budapest, where she had some short articles published by a magazine, and visited the acting school of Béla Gáal. There she studied acting, dancing and singing, but her parents were not very happy.

She went back and worked with her father in one of its offices. Finally she was able to further her career aspirations and went to Berlin, where she was a correspondent for the Hungarian newspaper Pesti Hírlap. After numerous futile applications she got a role as an actress in the 1927 film opposite Constantin J. David in a comedy Männer von der Ehe.

Soon followed Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume and Vienna, City of My Dreams. She later appeared in many leading roles. 1930, she went into talkies with Der Andere. She also made the French version of "Bomben auf Monte Carlo". In the German film, Anna Sten played the part. In 1938, she played in Finale,Die Unruhigen Mädchen and Les Sourires de Vienne. From 1939 she was mainly in French speaking roles, and also appeared in French, Italian and Austrian film productions. All in all, she made 6 films in France. Her last one was the German film Die Försterchristl in 1952, alongside Johanna Matz.

Käthe Von Nagy had her first marriage with the producer Constantin J. David and in second marriage with the Frenchman Jacques Fattini. She died 1973 of cancer in Hollywood.

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