Maria von Tasnady
Mary of Tasnady, actually Magdalena Fekete ( born November 16, 1911 in Lonea, Transylvania, Austria - Hungary, † March 16, 2001 in Munich, Bavaria ) was a Hungarian actress.
Life
Magdalena Fekete studied literature history and German literature at the University of Budapest and wanted to be a journalist. In 1931 she was elected Miss Hungary. As a prize she won a trip to Berlin. Here she received under the stage name "Mary of Tasnady " in Grace enjoying herself in the same year her first film role. She took acting lessons and performed in Berlin at the Staatstheater Oldenburg and later at the Schiller Theater on.
In the following years she received several times leading roles in German films. In the propaganda film people without a country, she played a refugee girl in the title role of love romance woman Sylvelin she was the neglected wife of Henry George. In 1939, she returned to Hungary and was able to participate in Hungarian and Italian productions.
In 1948 she left Hungary, lived in Italy and France and in 1954 in Munich. There she was 21 years as a spokeswoman for the broadcaster Radio Free Europe. At times they had a residence in America.
Mary of Tasnady was married in first marriage with the German producer Bruno Duday who was repeatedly involved as a co- producer on their films. Around 1938, she married the Hungarian film director Géza von Radványi, under whose direction she acted several times.
Her grave is in the cemetery of Planegg near Munich.