Acting
Apr 3, 1904
Szabadka, Austria-Hungary [now Subotica, Vojvodina, Serbia]
Käthe von Nagy
Acting
Biography
Käthe von Nagy (born 4 April 1904 in Szabadka, Austria-Hungary, today Subotica/Serbia, as Ekaterina Nagy von Cziser) was an Hungarian actress, model, dancer and singer, part of an aristocratic Serbian family. Between 1927 and 1952 she was active in German, French, Italian and Austrian cinema. She died of cancer in 1973, in Ojai, California, aged 69.
Feature Films (53)
An old clown loves a young dancer to whom he gives lessons. He heroically withdraws from the love of a rich young man.
The Mountebanks
A young woman tries to hinder her sister from committing adultery - by wooing the man she thinks is the suitor herself.
Die Töchter ihrer Exzellenz
Vienna, 1753. Baron Neuhaus is flirting with two ladies-in-waiting, hoping to get a job at the imperial court. He succeeds, and the empress orders him to investigate the immoral conduct in the palace of which Neuhaus himself is the cause.
The Young Baron Neuhaus
Four orphaned friends move after the Abitur, supported by the janitor of her school, together in a flat and look for work to be able to finance her study. Two make the acquaintance of a frivolous young baron. One shoots in her outrage at him, nevertheless, is acquitted in court. - Stereotyped Jung's girl's cheap sensationalism, broken up by popular comic. Hans Moser stands out by his delightful character comic. The last in Austria produced film before the invasion of the armed forces ('Wehrmacht').
The Restless Girls
In the Parisian Russian émigré community, an attractive young woman, Hélène, is torn between her husband, her lover, and the love she feels for a new suitor.
Nuits de princes
Daughter of a French officer and an Annamite, Mahlia was brought up in Indochina by Mr. and Mrs. de Roussière. Their son, Henri, would like to marry her but they are against it. Mahlia flees and Henri is killed for trying to protect her. The young girl enters the Mission to raise children there in the love of France.
Mahlia the Mestiza
Propaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as "Volga Germans", in the Soviet province of Manchuria.
Refugees
A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, she sleeps there by night and he by day. They've never meet , but they can't stand each other. Then they meet by chance, not knowing who's who and fall in love.
I by Day, You by Night
Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group of gangsters getting young women from Europe to South America, where they are forced to work in brothels. But the gangsters have their own battels against each over, so the journalists can escape the danger, in which they've brought themselves.
French White Cargo
A psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme involving a strict legal official. Based on the 1893 play "Der Andere" by Paul Lindau.