Käthe von Nagy
Käthe von Nagy (pronounced [ nɔɟ ] ), a native Ekaterina Nagy of Cziser, Kate David, Kate de Nagy, Kitty Fattini and Kató Nagy; Born April 4, 1904 in Subotica, Austria - Hungary; † December 20, 1973 in Los Angeles, California, United States) was a Hungarian actress.
Life and Films
Käthe von Nagy, the daughter of a bank manager, has by the gymnasium short time a convent school ( Sancta Christiana in Frohsdorf near Vienna) and then attended another boarding school in Transylvania. She initially wanted to be a writer and pulled it - uncommon at the time for a young woman - alone to Budapest, where she was able to publish some short stories in a magazine and the drama school of Béla Gaal visited. The father let her get back and gave her a job in one of his offices. Finally, she could however assert their career aspirations and went to Berlin, where she worked as a correspondent for the Hungarian newspaper Pesti Hírlap. After numerous unsuccessful applications received in 1927 at the Sternheim -Film GmbH, a first film commitment, a supporting role Constantin J. David's comedy "Men before marriage ", which also Grethe Weiser made her film debut. The first major role was played by Käthe von Nagy already in 1927/28 in the produced by Seymour Nebenzahl and Joe May comedy " The Durchgängerin ". More starring roles followed in the films " Mascottchen " (1928 /29) and " Her Majesty Love" ( 1930). In 1930 she appeared on the first sound film, the Jekyll -and- Hyde - drama " The Other " as resolute demi-mondaine with psychotherapeutic skills in Robert Wiene.
Since 1931, Kate stood by Nagy, who fell by their pert temperament and their distinctive, slightly exotic appearance from the normal parameters, for Ufa on camera: first in Kurt Gerron's comedy " My wife, the impostor " (with Heinz Rühmann ) and in "Your Highness commands " ( Willy Fritsch ). After that, she starred in the films " The Winner" (1931 /32, with Hans Albers ), "I day and you at night " ( Willy Fritsch ) and shortly after the Nazi accession to the throne in the anti-Soviet propaganda film "refugees" ( with Hans Albers ). More starring roles followed in the films " The young Baron Neuhaus " (1934, with Viktor de Kowa ) "Once be a great lady ," ( with Wolf Albach- Retty ), "The daughters of Her Excellency " ( Willy Fritsch ), "The girlfriend of a great man "(with Karl Ludwig Diehl ), " Princess Turandot " ( Willy Fritsch ), " Love, death and the Devil "(with Albin Skoda and Brigitte Horney ), " Ave Maria "(with Beniamino Gigli ), " On thread " ( Willy Fritsch ), " Little women "(with Albert Matterstock ), " salon car e 417 "and" Renate in the Quartet "(with Gustav Fröhlich).
From 1939 worked Käthe von Nagy, who spoke French, had earlier participated already repeated in French, Italian and Austrian film productions and lived since 1935 with her second husband in Paris, only in France. In a German film she appeared only in 1952 again with Supporting Actress.
Käthe von Nagy, who was married to his first marriage with director Constantin J. David and his second wife, the Frenchman Jacques Fattini, died in 1973 in Los Angeles from cancer.