Eva bartok actress

Hungarian-British actress —

She began acting in films in , and her last credited appearance was in Following the outbreak of the war, her father stayed in Budapest. Her father would visit them on Sundays, but later disappeared without a trace during the Nazi period. Bartok was able to get her marriage annulled , on the grounds of coercion of a minor. Following the end of the Second World War, Bartok decided to enter the acting profession, and successfully sat an examination at the Drama Centre in Budapest. She made her professional debut in a performance of J. She also performed at the Nemzeti Kamara in

Eva bartok actress

By the time she was 30, she had been married and divorced four times, one of her husbands being actor Curt Jurgens, while her lovers included the Marquess of Milford Haven and Frank Sinatra. Her most notable films are two cult movies, the pastiche swashbuckler The Crimson Pirate, in which she starred opposite Burt Lancaster, and Mario Bava's horror film Blood and Black Lace. Born Eva Martha Szoke in Keoskemet, Hungary, in , she married her first husband, Giza Kovas, a Nazi, while only 15 years old and after imprisonment in a concentration camp. The marriage was later annulled on the grounds of coercion of a minor. A strikingly beautiful brunette, she found work on the Budapest stage after the Second World War, and made her film debut in a Hungarian film, Mezet Profeta released in the United States as Prophet of the Field , in When she wrote to an old friend, the film producer Alexander Paal, begging him to help her escape from Soviet-dominated Budapest, Paal arranged a "passport marriage", took her to London and gave her the leading role in his film A Tale of Five Cities in which an airman Bonar Colleano who has lost his memory traces his past by means of five bank- notes he has in his possession, each with the signature of a girl. After its release, Bartok divorced Paal and in married the publicist William Wordsworth. The international flavour of her career was quickly established - her next roles took her to Italy Venetian Bird, and to both the Bay of Naples and the island of Ischia for one of her best remembered films, The Crimson Pirate Though plagued with difficulties during shooting at one point the star Burt Lancaster called its director Robert Siodmak "a silly old has-been" and rumoured to have been started as a straightforward action tale then switched midstream to farce, the film proved enormously popular. Bartok played Consuelo, the daughter of a revolutionary on a Caribbean island who persuades the pirate Lancaster to swap sides and, instead of helping a Spanish tyrant quash her father's rebellion, lead his ramshackle bunch of swashbucklers to achieve the island's independence. But Bartok's career failed to move into the major league.

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Eva bartok actress

She began acting in films in , and her last credited appearance was in Following the outbreak of the war, her father stayed in Budapest. Her father would visit them on Sundays, but later disappeared without a trace during the Nazi period. Bartok was able to get her marriage annulled , on the grounds of coercion of a minor.

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Upload your demo reel. Thank you for registering Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in Please refresh your browser to be logged in. Eva's long lasting affair with David Michael Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven and related to the Royal Family, made headlines everywhere especially when David's wife, the Machioness, filed for divorce and named Eva Bartok as the culprit in her failed marriage. CineMagia person ID. Also known as Norman Conquest. Meines Vaters Pferde I. Known for:. Filmed in German under the title Der Arzt von Stalingrad. Make your IMDb page stand out by adding a demo reel. Munzinger person ID.

By the time she was 30, she had been married and divorced four times, one of her husbands being actor Curt Jurgens, while her lovers included the Marquess of Milford Haven and Frank Sinatra. Her most notable films are two cult movies, the pastiche swashbuckler The Crimson Pirate, in which she starred opposite Burt Lancaster, and Mario Bava's horror film Blood and Black Lace. Born Eva Martha Szoke in Keoskemet, Hungary, in , she married her first husband, Giza Kovas, a Nazi, while only 15 years old and after imprisonment in a concentration camp.

BBC Things. Authority control databases. Bartok was later able to smuggle her mother out of Hungary, via Austria and Germany, to eventually settle her in France. Bartok's film career continued to take her around the world - British films included Operation Amsterdam , as a member of the Dutch resistance in , and a fanciful adventure tale of a bunch of plane-crash survivors who find they have landed at the site of an H-bomb test, S. Following that production, her best-known roles were in The Doctor of Stalingrad , which was released in , and in 's It Can't Always Be Caviar [ de ] , opposite O. But Bartok's career failed to move into the major league. I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Her father,a Jew who had married a Catholic lady, disappeared without a trace during the rise of Nazism in Europe and Eva, herself, was forced to marry a Nazi officer at age 15 in order to avoid being sent to a concentration camp. Beyond the Curtain 5. Tools Tools. Eva Bartok Actress Soundtrack.