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Ekaterina Nagy von Cziser, stage name Käthe von Nagy (4 April 1904 – 20 December 1973), was a Hungarian actress, model, dancer, and singer who worked in German and French cinema.


Early life and education

Käthe von Nagy, the daughter of a wealthy bank manager and part of an aristocratic Serbian family, spent very little time at monastery school."Portrait of the Actress Käthe von Nagy"
cyranos.ch; retrieved 30 May 2014.
When she wanted to get married at age 16, her parents did not approve and placed her in the ''Sancta Christiana'' Convent in Frohsdorf near
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to prevent the early marriage. After 18 months in the convent, she went to high school in Vienna, and then finally to boarding school. During this period, she took riding and fencing lessons.


Career

As a young adult, Nagy's dream was to become an author, also unusual for a woman of her time. She went to
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, where she wrote a few short articles that were eventually published in a magazine. Shortly after this, she decided to pursue her interest in acting and enrolled in the acting school of Béla Gáal, near Budapest. There she learned acting, dancing, and singing. Her parents were unhappy about her change of career and frequent moves. To satisfy her parents (especially her father), she returned and worked with him in his bank for a period of time, while secretly writing novels. In 1926, Nagy moved to
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to pursue a career in the film industry, but, as an unknown, she took a position as correspondent for the Hungarian newspaper ''Pesti Hírlap'' to earn a living."Postcard Friendship Friday – Käthe von Nagy"
''Film Star Postcards''. Retrieved 2014-30-05.
After numerous futile applications in the city, Hungarian film director
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got her a role as an actress in the 1927 comedy film ''Männer vor der Ehe'', opposite her future husband, Constantin J. David. Soon after, in 1928, she starred in the successful '' Wien, die Stadt meiner Träume'' ("Vienna, City of My Dreams"), which made her known as the "up-and-coming young actress of the European cinema". She later appeared in many leading roles and became famous for her countless postcards which also benefitted her modeling career. In 1931, she starred in '' Le Capitaine Craddock'', which made her popular in France where she would later make half her movies. After 1937, she appeared mainly in French-speaking roles, but also appeared in Italian and Austrian film productions. Her last film was the German film '' The Forester's Daughter'', in 1952, alongside Johanna Matz. During the
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, Nagy virtually retired from the acting industry, appearing in only one movie, ''Mahlia la métisse''. Because of her famous and hugely popular postcards, she was, in 1940, reportedly approached by ''
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'',
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, who asked her to be the face and body for
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s provided to German soldiers as a way to combat
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at the front, but she refused. This story has come to be considered a hoax, due to the lack of reliable sources.


Personal life

Nagy's first marriage was to film director Constantin J. David, in 1927, the year they met. Her second marriage was to Jacques Fattini; little is known about their relationship and marriage. She died of cancer in 1973, in
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, aged 69.


Filmography


References


External links


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"Käthe von Nagy – 1935 Pictures"
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