Lucy Doraine
Lucy Doraine ( May 22nd, 1898 in Budapest as Ilonka Kovács, † October 14, 1989 in Los Angeles ) was a Hungarian silent film star in Austria and Germany.
Life and work
After a ballet training in her childhood, she moved in the early stages of World War I in the Budapest theater school Bötys. This was followed by first engagements at the theater and a little later an offer as a film actress. In the political turmoil of the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, she fled with her husband, the director Michael Curtiz, to Vienna, as did many other Hungarian filmmakers as well. For his sake she had given up acting after their wedding. However, after three years, they could re-enter the movie business and was from then, built by her husband and his employer, Sascha film to film star. Until the divorce from her husband in 1923 Lucy Doraine was used in most films of her husband as the lead actress. In the complex, produced from 1920 to 1922 epic film " Sodom and Gomorrah ", she played the lead role.
With great eyelashes and sweeping gestures she was considered as a model of a canvas tragic actress in heart-wrenching dramas and melodramas. These properties also brought forth in Munich, where she moved in 1922. In 1923 she founded the Lucy- Doraine film and starred in several productions. In 1928 she received an offer from Hollywood, where she, however, the fate of many silent film stars, especially not native English speakers, befell: After several successful roles they hardly came out of the shop and ran quickly into oblivion.
Lucy Doraine had an illegitimate child with director Michael Curtiz, Kitty Curtiz - Eberson, born on November 25, 1915, died on 31 December 2006.
Filmography
Selection of films with Lucy Doraine as an actress ( in parentheses the abbreviation of the country of production ):