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Modern Girls (1937 Film)
''Modern Girls'' or ''Today's Girls'' (Hungarian: ''Mai lányok'') is a 1937 Hungarian comedy film directed by Béla Gaál and starring Lia Szepes, Jëno Pataky and Steven Geray. The film may be best remembered for Magda Gabor's appearance in a supporting role.Phillips & Vincendeau p. 258 Cast * Lia Szepes as Hanzéli Zsuzsi * Jenõ Pataky as Németh Péter * Steven Geray as Székely Feri (credited as Gyergyai István) * Lili Berky as Péter * Magda Kun as Cili * Margit Dajka as Kati (credited as Dayka Margit) * Magda Gabor as Lenke (credited as Gábor Magda) * Ági Donáth as Mária * Eva Biro as Viola (credited as Bíró Éva) * Gyula Justh as asztalos * József Juhász as asztalossegéd * László Dezsõffy as magándetektív * Gusztáv Vándory Gusztáv Vándory (6 December 1882 – 16 November 1964) was a Hungarian stage and film actor. He was born and died in Budapest. Selected filmography * '' Lili'' (1918) * ''Yamata'' (1919) * ''Neither at Home or A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Béla Gaál
Béla Gaál (2 January 1893 – 18 February 1945) was a Hungarian film director. His 1930 film '' Csak egy kislány van a világon'' was the first sound film to be made in Hungary.Cunningham p.28 In 1945 he was interned by the Nazis in Dachau Concentration Camp, where he would die. Selected filmography * '' Csak egy kislány van a világon'' (1930) * '' Vica the Canoeist'' (1933) * '' The New Relative'' (1934) * '' Rotschild leánya'' (1934) * ''Everything for the Woman'' (1934) * '' The Dream Car'' (1934) * '' Az aranyember'' (1936) * '' Hotel Kikelet'' (1937) * ''Modern Girls ''Modern Girls'' is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Jerry Kramer, starring Virginia Madsen, Daphne Zuniga and Cynthia Gibb. Plot summary Three women in their early 20s, Margo, Kelly, and Cece, are roommates living in Los Angeles worki ...'' (1937) References Bibliography * Buranbaeva, Oksana & Mladineo, Vanja. ''Culture and Customs of Hungary''. ABC-CLIO, 2011. * Burns, Bryan. ''Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
József Juhász
József Juhász (4 July 1908 – 24 June 1974) was a Hungarian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than fifty films during his career including ''Marika'' (1938). He emigrated to Canada following the defeat of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 which he had supported. Selected filmography * ''Three Dragons'' (1936) * ''Be True Until Death'' (1936) * '' The Borrowed Castle'' (1937) * ''Beauty of the Pusta'' (1937) * ''There Are Exceptions'' (1937) * ''Modern Girls'' (1937) * ''Marika'' (1938) * ''Rézi Friday'' (1938) * '' Flower of the Tisza'' (1939) * '' No Coincidence'' (1939) * '' Rózsafabot'' (1940) * '' Queen Elizabeth'' (1940) * ''Semmelweis'' (1940) * ''Seven Plum Trees'' (1940) * '' Closed Court'' (1940) * '' Entry Forbidden'' (1941) * '' A Bowl of Lentils'' (1941) * ''Don't Ask Who I Was'' (1941) * ''The Devil Doesn't Sleep'' (1941) * ''Silenced Bells'' (1941) * '' Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow'' (1941) * '' Old Waltz'' (1941) * '' Katyi'' (1942) * ''The Dance of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Based On Hungarian Novels
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930s Hungarian-language Films
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1937 Comedy Films
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Hungarian Comedy Films
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1937 Films
The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first American full-length animated film, ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1937 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 29 – ''The Good Earth'' premieres in the U.S. * April 16 – '' Way Out West'' premieres in the US. * May 7 – ''Shall We Dance'' premieres in the US. * May 11 – ''Captains Courageous'' premieres in New York. The film is released nationwide on June 25. * Monogram Pictures, who had merged with Republic Pictures two years earlier, decide to separate and distribute their own films again. * June 7 – Jean Harlow, one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the decade, dies aged 26 at Good Samaratan Hospital in Los Angeles. The official cause of death is listed as cerebral edema, a complication of kidney failure. * June 11 – '' A Day at the Races'' premieres in the U.S. * July 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gusztáv Vándory
Gusztáv Vándory (6 December 1882 – 16 November 1964) was a Hungarian stage and film actor. He was born and died in Budapest. Selected filmography * '' Lili'' (1918) * ''Yamata'' (1919) * ''Neither at Home or Abroad'' (1919) * '' Veszélyben a pokol'' (1921) * '' Hyppolit, the Butler'' (1931) * ''Spring Shower'' (1932) * '' Flying Gold'' (1932) * ''The Old Scoundrel'' (1932) * ''An Auto and No Money'' (1932) * ''The Dream Car'' (1934) * ''Hotel Kikelet'' (1937) * '' Modern Girls'' (1937) * ''Sportszerelem'' (1938) * '' Azurexpress'' (1938) * '' The Lady Is a Bit Cracked'' (1938) * ''The Hen-Pecked Husband'' (1938) * '' The Five-Forty'' (1939) * ''Duel for Nothing ''Duel for Nothing'' (Hungarian: ''Párbaj semmiért'') is a 1940 Hungarian drama film directed by Emil Martonffy and starring Gyula Csortos, Lili Berky and Alice Nagy. It was based on a novel by Sándor Hunyady. Plot summary Cast * Gyula ...'' (1940) Bibliography * Kulik, Karol. ''Alexander Korda: The Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ági Donáth
Agí Donáth (25 March 1918 – 16 February 2008) was a Hungarian-born American child actress, who appeared in a dozen or so films during the 1930s, most notably, ''Sister Maria''. She was born on 25 March 1918 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. On 24 June 1938 she married producer Emeric Pressburger. The union lasted until 1941. After the divorce, she emigrated to the United States. She remarried and became a successful businesswoman and real estate broker in Bel Air and a socialite. Selected filmography * '' Modern Girls'' (1937) * '' I defended a woman'' (1938) Death She died on 16 February 2008, aged 89, in Palm Desert, California Palm Desert is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, in the Coachella Valley, approximately east of Palm Springs, northeast of San Diego and east of Los Angeles. The population was 48,445 at the 2010 census. The city has bee .... External linksIMDb bio 1918 births 2008 deaths Hungarian film actresses Hungarian emigrants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yolanda Foldes
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Margit Dajka
Margit is a feminine given name, a version of Margaret. People bearing the name include: * Margit of Hungary (1175–1223), Empress consort of Isaac II Angelos, Byzantine Emperor * Saint Margit of Hungary (1242–1271), Hungarian nun and princess *Margit Albrechtsson (1918–1994), Swedish cross country skier *Margit Anna (1913–1991), Hungarian painter *Margit Bara (born 1928), Hungarian actress * Margit Beck (1918–1997), Hungarian-born American painter *Margit Brandt (born 1945), Danish fashion designer *Margit Carlqvist (born 1932), Swedish actress *Margit Carstensen (born 1940), German actress *Margit Dajka (1907–1986), Hungarian actress * Margit Danÿ (1906–1975), Hungarian fencer *Margit Elek (1910–1986), Hungarian fencer *Margit Eskman (1925–1990), Finnish politician *Margit Fischer (born 1943), First Lady of Austria, wife of President Heinz Fischer *Margit Graf (born 1951), Austrian luger *Margit Gréczi (born 1941), Hungarian painter *Margit Hansen-Krone (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magda Gabor
Magdolna "Magda" Gabor (June 11, 1915 – June 6, 1997) was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite, and the elder sister of Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor. Early life The eldest daughter of a jeweler, Jolie (1896–1997), and a soldier, Vilmos Gábor (1881–1962), she was born in 1915 in Budapest. Her parents were both from Jewish families. She is listed in ''Hungary: Jewish Names from the Central Zionist Archives'', under her first married name, as "Magda Bychowsky".The online database is based in Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc. (2008); information accessed at http://www.ancestry.com on December 30, 2011. During World War II, Gabor was reported to have been the fiancée of the Portuguese ambassador to Hungary, Carlos Sampaio Garrido; another source claims she was his mistress and another claims she was his aide. After she fled to Portugal in 1944, following the Nazi occupation of Hungary, and, with Sampaio's assistance, she was reportedly the mistress of a Spanish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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