Käthe von Nagy

Käthe von Nagy

Born: April 4, 1904
Died: December 20, 1973
in Szabadka, Austria-Hungary [now Subotica, Vojvodina, Serbia]
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.

Movies for Käthe von Nagy...

Die Försterchristl
Title: Die Försterchristl
Character: Josefine
Released: May 26, 1952
Type: Movie
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Secret Cargo
Title: Secret Cargo
Character: Luisa Heim
Released: December 27, 1947
Type: Movie
In a Central American state, the owner of a dance hall and his sponsor engage in drug trafficking. Are involved in various intrigues, a gypsy orchestra, its singer, the sister of the conductor, some policemen. Imprisonment and death are at the end of the adventures.
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Mahlia the Mestiza
Title: Mahlia the Mestiza
Released: December 15, 1943
Type: Movie
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.
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Renate im Quartett
Title: Renate im Quartett
Character: Renate Schmidt
Released: August 23, 1939
Type: Movie
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Salonwagen E 417
Title: Salonwagen E 417
Character: Baronesse Ursula von Angerfeld
Released: May 4, 1939
Type: Movie
In a transport museum, the items on display begin to tell their stories. Most interesting is the history of the Pullman car. In the beginning, it served as transport for a princely family; then became the headquarters car for the military high command; and then, most adventurous of all, it ended up with a circus. Converted to a bar, it finally had its day and was supposed to serve as a placard carrier. Luckily, the museum saved it from this sad fate.
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Final Accord
Title: Final Accord
Character: Helene Vernier
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students.
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Am seidenen Faden
Title: Am seidenen Faden
Character: Lissy Eickhoff
Released: September 22, 1938
Type: Movie
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Unsere kleine Frau
Title: Unsere kleine Frau
Character: Dodo
Released: September 10, 1938
Type: Movie
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The Restless Girls
Title: The Restless Girls
Character: Trixi / F: Lucie Lénart
Released: February 11, 1938
Type: Movie
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').
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Nights of Princes
Title: Nights of Princes
Character: Hélène
Released: January 27, 1938
Type: Movie
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La bataille silencieuse
Title: La bataille silencieuse
Character: Draguicha
Released: September 9, 1937
Type: Movie
A young journalist who has gone reporting with the papers of a friend gets caught up in an arms smuggling operation. It is in this context that he meets Draguicha, a Serbian student who, misled by a group of greedy financiers, is planning a terrorist attack on the Orient Express...
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French White Cargo
Title: French White Cargo
Character: Marion Baker
Released: February 3, 1937
Type: Movie
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.
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Ave Maria
Title: Ave Maria
Character: Claudette
Released: January 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Ave Maria was the second film-starring vehicle for legendary operatic tenor Beniamino Gigli. Mourning the loss of the only woman he ever loved, concert singer Tino Dossi (Gigli) is temporarily shaken from his doldrums by vivacious Montmartre entertainer Claudette (Kaethe Von Nagy). Dossi doesn't realize that Claudette is merely using him to advance her own singing career. Ultimately won over by Dossi's sincerity and courtesy, Claudette falls in love with him for real, only to suffer the pangs of conscience as a result. About to kill herself, she decides instead to return to Dossi's arms, vowing never to confess her original mercenary intentions.
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Die Pompadour
Title: Die Pompadour
Character: Marquise de Pompadour
Released: October 23, 1935
Type: Movie
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Le diable en bouteille
Title: Le diable en bouteille
Character: Kolua
Released: April 5, 1935
Type: Movie
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Turandot, princesse de Chine
Title: Turandot, princesse de Chine
Character: Turandot
Released: February 14, 1935
Type: Movie
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Love, Death and the Devil
Title: Love, Death and the Devil
Character: Kokua
Released: December 21, 1934
Type: Movie
In a harbor bazaar of the Pacific town of Kona, the young sailor Kiwe is offered a mysterious bottle, which supposedly gives her owner power and wealth and should fulfill all his wishes. The required return is however high. From now on, the soul of the new owner belongs to the devil.
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Prinzessin Turandot
Title: Prinzessin Turandot
Character: Turandot
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
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Der junge Baron Neuhaus
Title: Der junge Baron Neuhaus
Character: Gräfin Christl Palm
Released: September 14, 1934
Type: Movie
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Die Töchter ihrer Exzellenz
Title: Die Töchter ihrer Exzellenz
Character: Gerti
Released: May 17, 1934
Type: Movie
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At the End of the World
Title: At the End of the World
Character: Christine Laudy
Released: March 30, 1934
Type: Movie
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Un jour viendra
Title: Un jour viendra
Released: March 27, 1934
Type: Movie
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Die Freundin eines großen Mannes
Title: Die Freundin eines großen Mannes
Character: Marga Köhler
Released: March 14, 1934
Type: Movie
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Once a Great Lady
Title: Once a Great Lady
Character: Kitty Holm
Released: February 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman working as a secretary for a Berlin car business tries to impress a rich Australian visitor by pretending she is a foreign countess.
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Refugees
Title: Refugees
Character: Kristja Laudy
Released: December 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Propaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as "Volga Germans", in the Soviet province of Manchuria.
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Her Majesty Love
Title: Her Majesty Love
Character: Lia Török
Released: February 6, 1933
Type: Movie
Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. He proposes to her, much to the horror of his family, which considers Lia and her unsophisticated father far below their caste. The family convinces Fred to give up the girl in exchange for increased position and income in the company. But Fred's lapse is momentary, and he again pursues Lia. But she, by this time, has learned of his erstwhile agreement and has agreed to marry someone else.
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I by Day, You by Night
Title: I by Day, You by Night
Character: Grete
Released: November 29, 1932
Type: Movie
A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, he sleeps there by night and she 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.
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The Beautiful Adventure
Title: The Beautiful Adventure
Character: Hélène de Trevillac
Released: October 18, 1932
Type: Movie
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The Beautiful Adventure
Title: The Beautiful Adventure
Character: Helene de Trevillac
Released: August 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Helene has agreed to marry a man that she isn't in love with. On the day of her wedding her cousin arrives just in time to rescue her and they run away together. They stay with her aged grandmother who assumes the young man (whom she doesn't know) to be the new husband and has prepared a bridal bed for them.
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The Winner
Title: The Winner
Character: Melle Ponta
Released: March 24, 1932
Type: Movie
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The Winner
Title: The Winner
Character: Helene
Released: March 21, 1932
Type: Movie
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Ronny
Title: Ronny
Character: Ronny
Released: December 22, 1931
Type: Movie
Käthe von Nagy plays Ronny, who designs the costumes for the upcoming premiere of an opera written by the young prince of Perusa (Willy Fritsch) and has to deliver them personally due to the urgency of the commission. Arriving there, the prince not only is charmed by the young lady (who wouldn't?), but also mistakenly believes her to be the famous singer who is to be the female lead in the opera. What Willy does not know yet is that the real singer has cancelled her appearance, and as the state ministers hope to distract him from politics with the performance of the opera, they indeed want Ronny to appear in the show….
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Ronny
Title: Ronny
Character: Ronny
Released: December 22, 1931
Type: Movie
Ronny is a young designer on her way to the capital of the Ruritanian Kingdom of Perusa with the costumes she has created for the operetta written by the Prince. On her journey, she meets the prince and is persuaded to take the place of the star who had just walked out. The prince falls for Ronny but how can he marry a commoner?
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Captain Craddock
Title: Captain Craddock
Released: December 4, 1931
Type: Movie
The mystery passenger on Craddock's ship is his country's queen.When he loses money she's entrusted to him at roulette, he threatens to bomb Monte Carlo unless his loss is restored.
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My Wife, the Adventuress
Title: My Wife, the Adventuress
Character: Jutta Bergmann
Released: September 17, 1931
Type: Movie
A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.
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Her Grace Commands
Title: Her Grace Commands
Character: Prinzessin Marie-Christine
Released: March 3, 1931
Type: Movie
An emancipated Princess, who has just returned home to her court in the Balkans from England, goes in disguise to a servants’ bal and falls in love with an alleged caterer, who turns out next day to be a lieutenant of the guard. Without letting on to her masquerade, she makes sure he climbs the ranks quickly. At the same time, she tries to thwart her engagement to an unpopular prince.
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The Other
Title: The Other
Character: Amalie Frieben
Released: August 11, 1930
Type: Movie
A psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme involving a strict legal official. The simultaneously filmed French language version of the film is titled The Prosecutor Hallers.
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The Mountebanks
Title: The Mountebanks
Released: March 13, 1930
Type: Movie
An old clown loves a young dancer to whom he gives lessons. He heroically withdraws from the love of a rich young man.
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Little Veronika (Innocence)
Title: Little Veronika (Innocence)
Character: Veronika
Released: November 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Young Veronika travels from her Tyrolean village to her aunt’s Viennese apartment for her confirmation. The aunt’s flighty nature and her profession as a prostitute leave her niece in the company of men who assume she is just another new girl on offer.
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Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
Title: Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
Character: Käthe
Released: June 30, 1929
Type: Movie
Two broke friends hatch a scheme to get money from a rich aunt.
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Rails
Title: Rails
Character: La ragazza
Released: April 30, 1929
Type: Movie
A young honeymooning couple are lured away to a seaside resort by a high-society sleazeball, who has plans to seduce the girl, while at the same time her hubby in desperation stakes all his money on the roulette wheels.
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Maskottchen
Title: Maskottchen
Character: Margot
Released: April 16, 1929
Type: Movie
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The Way Through the Night
Title: The Way Through the Night
Released: January 1, 1929
Type: Movie
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Die Republik der Backfische
Title: Die Republik der Backfische
Character: Billie van Santen
Released: October 14, 1928
Type: Movie
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Vienna, City of My Dreams
Title: Vienna, City of My Dreams
Character: Gräfin Mizzi Lichtenau
Released: August 6, 1928
Type: Movie
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Die Durchgängerin
Title: Die Durchgängerin
Character: Ilsebill
Released: April 18, 1928
Type: Movie
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Die Sandgräfin
Title: Die Sandgräfin
Released: February 23, 1928
Type: Movie
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Gustav Mond, Du gehst so stille
Title: Gustav Mond, Du gehst so stille
Character: Frieda Krause
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
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Der Anwalt des Herzens
Title: Der Anwalt des Herzens
Released: November 7, 1927
Type: Movie
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Men Before Marriage
Title: Men Before Marriage
Released: June 22, 1927
Type: Movie
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Le bateau de verre
Title: Le bateau de verre
Character: Anni
Released: January 1, 1927
Type: Movie