Katalin Karády

Person Details

Birthday: 1910-12-08 06:24:58

Death: 1990-02-08 06:24:58

Aliases: Katalin Kanczler , Katalin Karady , Karády Katalin , Karádi Katalin , Katalin Karádi , Karady Katalin , Kanczler Katalin

Gender: N/A

Place of birth: Budapest, Hungary

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Movie Involvements: 8

TV Involvements: 0

Most Famous Work

Biography

Katalin Karády (December 8, 1910, Budapest - February 8, 1990, New York) was a Hungarian actress and singer. A leading actress in Hungarian movies made between 1939–1945, she is best known outside Hungary as an awardee of the Righteous among the Nations honorific for rescuing a number of Hungarian Jews. She started acting in 1936, taking classes from Ernő Tarnay, and Artúr Bárdos. After gaining the attention of journalist Zoltán Egyed in a bar in Buda (who also proposed the name Karády) she was introduced to Ilona Aczél, a former actress, in whose acting school she learned the basics of the profession in the following three years, including singing. Karády's first performance was at the end of the 30s, in the Joób Dániel theatre. Between 1931 and 1941, she appeared in the Pesti and Vígszínház theatre in various roles. Her first movie role, Halálos Tavasz (Deadly Spring) gave her instant fame as a diva and sex-symbol, supported by her unusual, humming voice, and "femme fatale" character. In the next nine years, she appeared in 20 movies. Zoltán Egyed became her manager, and successfully created a Hollywood-like image around her, as a result, thousands of fans tried to mimic her clothing, hairstyle and behavior throughout the country. Karády's personal life was a constant topic of gossip, conflicting rumors came and gone about she being a man-eater, or lesbian. The theories were stirred up even more as she had intimate relationship with Regent Miklós Horthy's chief of secret service, István Ujszászy, who also proposed her, and bought her a villa. The 2001 film Hamvadó Cigarettavég by Péter Bacsó is dedicated to her memory. In 2004, for her courageous acts during World War II, she received the posthumous Righteous medal from the Yad Vashem Institute. Description above from the Wikipedia article Katalin Karády, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
1980	N/A	Confidence 1980-01-10 Movie
1948	N/A	Hot Fields 1948-08-23 Movie
1944	Machita	Machita 1944-04-05 Movie
	N/A	Something Is in the Water 1944-01-26 Movie
1943	N/A	Opium Waltz 1943-06-17 Movie
	Szováthy Éva	Szováthy Éva 1943-03-28 Movie
	Benedek Pálma	Taming the Shrew 1943-01-01 Movie
1942	Anna	Egy szív megáll 1942-12-22 Movie
	Mariya	The Challenge 1942-11-09 Movie
	Balásfy Ágnes / Balásfy Eszter	Halálos csók 1942-10-15 Movie
	Harmonikás Gizi	Külvárosi őrszoba 1942-07-26 Movie
	N/A	Szíriusz 1942-01-10 Movie
	N/A	Deception 1942-01-01 Movie
1941	Horváth Margit	Egy tál lencse 1941-03-05 Movie
	N/A	Temptation 1941-03-01 Movie
1940	N/A	Queen Elizabeth 1940-12-27 Movie
	Mária	Hazajáró lélek 1940-10-28 Movie
1939	Ralben Edit	Deadly Spring 1939-12-21 Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv