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Käthe von Nagy

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Käthe von Nagy wanted to get married at the age of 16, therefore, her parents put her in the Santa Chrisitana Convent, near Vienna. After that, she worked in her father's office and besides started to secretly write short stories for newspapers. In Budapest, she studied acting, dancing and singing, but her parents were not very happy. In 1926, she went to Berlin to make movies. She got a small part in the film _Männer von der Ehe (1927)_ and _Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume (1927)_ "Vienna, City of My Dreams". In 1930, she went into talkies with Der Andere (1930). She also made the French version of "Bomben auf Monte Carlo" (1931). In the German film, Anna Sten played the part. In 1938, she played in "Finale" ("Die Unruhigen Mädchen", "Les Sourires de Vienne"). After that she made 6 films in France. Her last one was Die Försterchristl (1952), alongside Johanna Matz. She died of cancer in Hollywood.
- IMDb mini biography by: Rudi Polt / rudipolt@aol.com

Because of her notability due to her famous and hugely popular postcards, she was, in 1940, reportedly approached by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, who asked her to be the face and body for sex dolls provided to German soldiers as a way to combat syphilis at the front, but she refused.
The daughter of a wealthy bank manager and part of an aristocratic Hungarian family, when Käthe wanted to marry at age 16, her disapproving parents placed her in Santa Christiana Kloster (Hochstraße 8, 1230, Vienna) to prevent any elopement. After 18 months at the convent, she went to high school in Vienna, and then finally to boarding school, where she took riding and fencing lessons.
After numerous futile applications in the city, Hungarian film director Alexander Korda got her a role as an actress in the 1927 comedy film Männer vor der Ehe, opposite her future husband, Constantin J. David.
When the national uprising broke out in Hungary in 1956 she was in Budapest. She looked to the wounded and became injured herself later.
Kathe von Nagy was a French teacher at Happy Valley School in Ojai, California, in the mid-1950s.

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