
Birthday:
04-04-1904
Deathday:
12-20-1973 (69 years)
Birthplace:
Szabadka, Austria-Hungary [now Subotica, Vojvodina, Serbia]
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.
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Ronny
Act like Ronny
event1931
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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?
The Mountebanks
event1930
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An old clown loves a young dancer to whom he gives lessons. He heroically withdraws from the love of a rich young man.
The Restless Girls
Act like Trixi / F: Lucie Lénart
event1938 star_border 5
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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').
Nuits de princes
Act like Hélène
event1938
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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.
Mahlia the Mestiza
event1943
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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.
Refugees
Act like Kristja Laudy
event1933 star_border 5.7
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Propaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as "Volga Germans", in the Soviet province of Manchuria.
I by Day, You by Night
Act like Grete
event1932 star_border 6.4
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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.
French White Cargo
Act like Marion Baker
event1937 star_border 4
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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.
My Wife, the Adventuress
Act like Jutta Bergmann
event1931
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A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.
The Other
Act like Amalie Frieben
event1930 star_border 5.5
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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.
Salonwagen E 417
Act like Baronesse Ursula von Angerfeld
event1939 star_border 6.5
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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.
La Bataille silencieuse
Act like Draguicha
event1937
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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...
Die Freundin eines großen Mannes
Act like Marga Köhler
event1934
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A renowned actress rescues a small theater, which is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Am seidenen Faden
Act like Lissy Eickhoff
event1938
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A WWI veteran comes home and with a scientist's help opens an artificial silk factory later used for clothing. Crooked international profiteers ,a lawyer and a banker, threaten the profitability of the concern and the workers' jobs.
Once a Great Lady
Act like Kitty Holm
event1934
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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.
The Beautiful Adventure
Act like Helene de Trevillac
event1932
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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.
Ronny
Act like Ronny
event1931 star_border 5
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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….
Her Grace Commands
Act like Prinzessin Marie-Christine
event1931 star_border 5
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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.
Her Majesty Love
Act like Lia Török
event1933
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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.
The Imperial Road
Act like Joyce
event1935 star_border 4
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An indigenous uprising in British controlled Iraq threatens the route to India, as a lobe triangle develops among the expatriates.
Final Accord
Act like Helene Vernier
event1938 star_border 9
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A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students.
Rails
Act like La ragazza
event1929 star_border 6.1
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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.
Little Veronika (Innocence)
Act like Veronika
event1929
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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.
Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim
Act like Käthe
event1929
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Two broke friends hatch a scheme to get money from a rich aunt.
Ave Maria
Act like Claudette
event1936 star_border 5.5
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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.
Secret Cargo
Act like Luisa Heim
event1947 star_border 2
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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.
The Republic of Flappers
Act like Billie van Santen
event1928
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The ridin', ropin' and shootin' Billie (Käthe von Nagy) is shipped from the Argentinian pampas to Europe to be polished girls' boarding school. Cheerfully untamable, she constantly violates the rules of the boarding school and is thrown out. So she gathers other girls around her and founds the Republic of the Teenage Girls on a deserted island, and becomes its president herself.
Love, Death and the Devil
Act like Kokua
event1934
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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.
Captain Craddock
event1931 star_border 6
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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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