MarÃa Corda
María Corda, actually Antónia Mária Farkas, also Maria Korda ( born May 4, 1898 in Deva, Hungary, † 15 February 1976 Thônex, Switzerland ) was a Hungarian silent film star in Austria and Germany.
Life and work
In the early phase of the First World War, she began acting at the Budapest theater and played shortly after the declaration of independence of Hungary also in the film. There she quickly made career and followed her then- husband, the film director Alexander Corda, to Vienna, as these fled after the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet Republic. In Vienna, he built it on the star of the Austrian silent film. In the pompous epics like Samson and Delilah (1922 ) or The Slave Queen (1924 ), it pushed as the lead actress with her big gesture and suffering Tragödinnenmine in scene. In The Slave Queen, she played with in one of the films coming from Hungary also Michael Curtiz, who otherwise have his own wife, Lucy Doraine, preferred as the lead actress.
In The Last Days of Pompeii, she appeared in an Italian epic film with. In 1926 she followed her husband to Berlin, 1927, she moved on to Hollywood. There she played with her husband's first productions, but had little success. With the beginning of the sound film era, she ended her career, not least because they only spoke poor English. She returned temporarily returned to Europe and played in a British and two minor German productions. She divorced from Alexander Corda, moved to New York and tried there as a novelist. Your later years of life spent in the vicinity of Geneva in Switzerland.