Kathe Von Nagy
Born 1904 in Szabadka, Austria-Hungary (now Subotica, Vojvodina, Yugoslavia), Kathe appeared in 56 films from 1929 to 1952. It wasn't an easy road. She wanted to get married at 16, so her parents sent her to a convent for 18 months. Upon leaving the convent she went, on her own (not common for the time), to Budapest to try her hand at writing. In Budapest she also studied acting, dancing and singing. In 1926, she went to Berlin to make movies - her first was "Men Before Marriage", directed by the man who was to become her first husband. All her films were made in either Germany or France. She died in Hollywood in 1973.
Kathe Von Nagy - What do you think? Allure?
Kathe Von Nagy - What do you think? Allure?
4 comments:
Kathe Von Nagy was a very beautiful, "modern" looking
actress. I have her in a film
"Ich bei Tag und du bei Nacht"
and I just adore it and her.
The film is a wonderful German
musical, sometimes sung in rhyming
couplets. She plays a manicurist
and Willi Frischt?? plays a waiter
- he sleeps by day, she by night
- hence the title. Of course when
they meet there is instant attraction - even though they dislike the other person sharing
their room. And as in all musicals
of the 30s (well most of them) there is a mistaken identity
theme.
I would love to see her in more
films but I think I am lucky to
have her in this delightful
musical.
Whee did you get that fill? they are almost impossible to find.
If you can copy it I can swap you a copy of "Flüchtlinge"
Kathe von Nagy was my French teacher at Happy Valley School in Ojai, California, in the mid-1950s. Us students knew her as Kate de Nagy, or simply as "Kate" in the manner of address for teachers at the school. She died in Ojai and not in Hollywood. The Bel Canto Society in New York distributes "Ave Maria" staring the tenor B. Gigli and Kathe von Nagy.
J'ai vu le Chemin de Rio,ou Käthe Von Nagy joue aux côtès de Jean-Pierre Aumont, et elle malicieusement belle, et très séduisante.
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