Eva Bartok
Eva Bartok ( born June 18, 1927 in Budapest, † August 1, 1998 in London; born Éva Ivanova Márta Szoke ) was a Hungarian- British actress.
Career
Bartok played from 1945 to 1947 in Budapest theater before she left Hungary in 1948 to move to London, and in 1949 made her film debut in the film A Tale of Five Cities. The international breakthrough as a film actress she succeeded in 1952 on the side of Burt Lancaster as Consuelo in The Crimson Pirate.
Overall, they played until the mid-1960s in about three dozen films, of which 10,000 Bedrooms with Dean Martin, The Doctor of Stalingrad and it may not always be caviar, both with OE Hasse count on to their most famous. They were particularly impressed as racy, alluring black-haired beauty, while tragic roles such as that of Dunja The postmaster at her were the exception in the remake of Pushkin. Bartok ended her film career in 1966 at the age of 39.
Private
Eva Bartok married in 1944 the Hungarian Géza Kovács officer. Her second husband was the producer Alexander Paal, who in 1948 also accompanied to escape from Hungary. By her third marriage to the British film director William Wordsworth, it acquired British citizenship. A stir then made their liaison with David Michael Mountbatten, a relative of the Queen. Great media attention she married on August 13, 1955 the German actor Curd Jürgens. Already on November 6, 1956, came to divorce. 1957 their daughter Deana was born, leading to speculation about the father of the child. From 1980 to 1983 divorce Eva Bartok lived with her fifth husband, the Americans Dag Molin, in Los Angeles.
Bartok, who had taken care of as a member of the international jet set many years hit the headlines in the tabloid press, came after the end of her film career gradually into oblivion. You had with the film business apparently no longer in contact and put in later years the name Eva Bartok again. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she worked as Dr. Maria Jürgens for an art gallery in San Francisco. In recent years, Eva Bartok there is little information. Mid-1990s, she lived and worked apparently under the name Eva Jürgens in London. She died forgotten and impoverished to a heart attack in 1998.