Käthe von Nagy

Acting

Käthe von Nagy

Born — Died

1904-04-04 — 1973-12-20

Place of birth

Szabadka, Austria-Hungary [now Subotica, Vojvodina, Serbia]

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

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.

Known for

Love, Death and the Devil poster
10.0

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.

Love, Death and the Devil

1934

Turandot, princesse de Chine poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Turandot, princesse de Chine

1935

Rails poster
6.2

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.

Rails

1929

My Wife, the Adventuress poster
7.5

A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.

My Wife, the Adventuress

1931

Vienna, City of My Dreams poster
10.0

The young Queen of Nlilrania and her consort, Prince Ferdinand, are deeply attached to each other, but a hectic youth in Vienna has left him with a flirtatious disposition. An old flame visits the palace, and the Queen apparently has justification for her jealousy. She orders her husband to remain in his apartments. He retaliates by returning the key of the door between their rooms. After a furious scene he departs for Vienna with the Countess. The Queen secretly follows with her aide-de-camp. in the train they encounter sonic officers, and the Queen not only dances, but at Vienna goes to the Arts Ball, where her husband awaits the Countess. Though masked, he recognizes her, and reconciliation ensues.

Vienna, City of My Dreams

1928

Die Försterchristl poster
7.0

Christl, the forester’s daughter, apprehends a young hunter in the forest and only lets him go after he pays a small fine. But when Christl goes to the emperor shortly afterward to plead on behalf of her beloved—a Hungarian officer who has fallen out of favor—she can hardly believe her eyes: the young hunter was the emperor.

Die Försterchristl

1952

Film credits

1930s · 36 titles

Love, Death and the Devil poster
10.0

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.

Love, Death and the Devil

1934

Turandot, princesse de Chine poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Turandot, princesse de Chine

1935

My Wife, the Adventuress poster
7.5

A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.

My Wife, the Adventuress

1931

Final Accord poster
8.5

A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students.

Final Accord

1938

Once a Great Lady poster
9.0

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.

Once a Great Lady

1934

Her Majesty Love poster
10.0

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.

Her Majesty Love

1933

No artwork available
NR

When a young woman becomes aware of her husband's wandering attentions, she plots his retribution.

Mia moglie si diverte

1938

At the End of the World poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

At the End of the World

1934

Die Töchter ihrer Exzellenz poster
5.5

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

1934

Die Freundin eines großen Mannes poster
10.0

A renowned actress rescues a small theater, which is on the verge of bankruptcy.

Die Freundin eines großen Mannes

1934

Salonwagen E 417 poster
7.0

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.

Salonwagen E 417

1939

Die Pompadour poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Pompadour

1935

The Winner poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Winner

1932

The Beautiful Adventure poster
7.0

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.

The Beautiful Adventure

1932

The Other poster
6.4

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.

The Other

1930

Her Grace Commands poster
7.0

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 Grace Commands

1931

I by Day, You by Night poster
6.7

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

1932

French White Cargo poster
4.4

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

1937

Our Little Wife poster
10.0

When a young woman becomes aware of her husband's wandering attentions, she plots his comeuppance.

Our Little Wife

1938

The Imperial Road poster
6.0

An indigenous uprising in British controlled Iraq threatens the route to India, as a lobe triangle develops among the expatriates.

The Imperial Road

1935

The Devil in the Bottle poster
9.0

If a sailor uses a magic bottle he found that grants whatever he desires, will his soul be lost to the Devil?

The Devil in the Bottle

1935

The Restless Girls poster
7.0

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

1938

Refugees poster
6.2

Propaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as "Volga Germans", in the Soviet province of Manchuria.

Refugees

1933

Captain Craddock poster
7.0

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.

Captain Craddock

1931

The Young Baron Neuhaus poster
6.0

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

1934

The Beautiful Adventure poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Beautiful Adventure

1932

Nuits de princes poster
9.0

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

1938

The Winner poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Winner

1932

No artwork available
7.0

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.

Am seidenen Faden

1938

Renata in the Quartet poster
6.2

When a female violinist joins an otherwise all-male musical quartet, the other members struggle to cope.

Renata in the Quartet

1939

La Bataille silencieuse poster
8.0

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...

La Bataille silencieuse

1937

Un jour viendra poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un jour viendra

1934

Prinzessin Turandot poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Prinzessin Turandot

1934

Ave Maria poster
5.3

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.

Ave Maria

1936

The Mountebanks poster
8.0

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

1930

Ronny poster
6.3

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….

Ronny

1931

1920s · 13 titles

Rails poster
6.2

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.

Rails

1929

Vienna, City of My Dreams poster
10.0

The young Queen of Nlilrania and her consort, Prince Ferdinand, are deeply attached to each other, but a hectic youth in Vienna has left him with a flirtatious disposition. An old flame visits the palace, and the Queen apparently has justification for her jealousy. She orders her husband to remain in his apartments. He retaliates by returning the key of the door between their rooms. After a furious scene he departs for Vienna with the Countess. The Queen secretly follows with her aide-de-camp. in the train they encounter sonic officers, and the Queen not only dances, but at Vienna goes to the Arts Ball, where her husband awaits the Countess. Though masked, he recognizes her, and reconciliation ensues.

Vienna, City of My Dreams

1928

Die Republik der Backfische poster
7.0

The ridin', ropin' and shootin' Billie 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.

Die Republik der Backfische

1928

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Maskottchen

1929

Le bateau de verre poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le bateau de verre

1927

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Sandgräfin

1928

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Way Through the Night

1929

Der Anwalt des Herzens poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Anwalt des Herzens

1927

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gustav Mond, Du gehst so stille

1928

Little Veronika (Innocence) poster
8.0

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.

Little Veronika (Innocence)

1929

Men Before Marriage poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Men Before Marriage

1927

No artwork available
9.0

Two broke friends hatch a scheme to get money from a rich aunt.

Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim

1929

Die Durchgängerin poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Durchgängerin

1928