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{{eastern name order|Szőke Ivanovics Éva Márta
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| birth_name = Éva Márta Szőke Ivanovics
| birth_date = {{birth date|1927|06|18|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[
| death_date = {{death date and age|1998|08|01|1927|06|18|df=y}}
| death_place = [[London]], England
| yearsactive = 1947–1966
| occupation = Actress
| spouse = {{Nowrap|Géza Kovács (annulled)<br/>[[Alexander Paal]] (1948–1950; divorced)<br/>William Wordsworth (1951–1955; divorced)<br/>[[Curd Jürgens]] (1955–1956; divorced)<br/> Dag Molin (1980–1983; divorced)<ref>{{cite web |last= Weikard |first= André |title=
| partner = [[Frank Sinatra]]<ref name=Vallance /><br/>[[David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven]]
| children =
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'''Éva Márta Szőke Ivanovics''' (18 June 1927<ref>Some sources cite 1926, 1928, or 1929 as possible years of birth.</ref>{{spaced ndash}}1 August 1998), known professionally as '''Eva Bartok''', was a
==Early life==
Bartok was born Éva Márta Szőke Ivanovics in
Following the outbreak of the [[Second World War]] her father stayed in Budapest Bartok and her mother moved to live in Kecskemét, to the south of Budapest, where her mother had relatives. Her father would visit them on Sundays, but later disappeared without a trace during the Nazi period.▼
To avoid persecution as the daughter of a Jewish father the teenage Bartok was forced at age of 15 to gain protection by marrying Géza Kovács, a Hungarian officer who had Nazi connections.<ref name=Vallance/>▼
Kovács disappeared following the occupation of the Hungary by the communists. Bartok was able to get her marriage [[annulment|annulled]] on the grounds of [[coercion]] of a minor.<ref name=LATimes/><ref>[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/10936|49801/Eva-Bartok/ Eva Bartok], [[Turner Classic Movies]]; accessed 22 April 2018.</ref>▼
▲Following the outbreak of the
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. One of the examiners was the director of the prominent Belvàrosi Szinhàz theatre and he was impressed enough to in 1945 offer Bartok a three-year contract. She made her professional debut in a performance of [[J. B. Priestley]]'s ''A Conway család'' (''[[Time and the Conways]]'') which ran at the Belvàrosi Szinhàz for three months. She also performed at the Nemzeti Kamara in 1947. ▼
She then performed in Gáspár Margit’s ''Új Isten Thébában'' (''New God in Thebes'') in 1946 followed by [[Áron Tamási]]’s drama ''Hullámzó vőlegény'' in 1947, [[George Bernard Shaw]]’s ''Androkles és az oroszlánok'' (''[[Androcles and the Lion (play)| Androcles and the Lion]]'') and [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]’s ''A tisztességtudó utcalány'' (''[[The Respectful Prostitute]]'').▼
▲To avoid persecution as the daughter of a Jewish father, the teenage Bartok was forced
She first appeared in front of the camera was in the 1947 Hungarian film ''Mezei próféta'' which was banned by the communist censors for political reasons. ▼
▲Kovács disappeared following the occupation of
Feeling threatened and persecuted by the new Communist regime in Hungary, she asked for help from Hollywood-based Hungarian producer [[Alexander Paal]], who had been a friend of her father. Paal arranged a "passport marriage", and took her to London. Bartok was later able to smuggle her mother out of Hungary via Austria and Germany to eventually settle her in France. As one of its producers Paal was able to arrange for Bartok to appear in the British-Italian international co-production drama film ''[[A Tale of Five Cities]]'' (which was released as ''A Tale of Five Women'' in the US). It was filmed in 1948 but due to due to financial difficulties it was not released until 1951. As her surname would have been an hinderance to Western audiences she changed her professional name to “Bartok” after the well-known Hungarian composer [[Béla Bartók]]. After divorcing Paal, Eva was introduced though the Hungarian expatriate community to fellow Hungarian expatriate, [[Alexander Korda]] who arranged for her to be put under contract to [[London Films]].<ref name=AP/> This arrangement paid her a small salary of £80 a month and gave her the opportunity to audition for the studio’s various film projects. At the same time she undertook English language lessons. ▼
To assist in gaining parts on the advice of theatrical publicity agent William Wordsworth, (who later became her third husband) she generated publicity by attending theatre premieres. As she had little money, she made most of her own dresses.▼
==Career==
Bartok came to the attention of a Italian stage producer who was in London looking for an English actress. He asked her to join his company with the provision that she could learn enough Italian in three weeks to perform a monologue in a variety show that incorporated singing, dancing, comedians, magicians, acrobats and novelty acts. With Korda’s permission Bartok flew to Rome to join the show’s rehearsals prior to the show opening in December 1951 at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan. The show was a success and over the following four months there are performances in Florence, Venice, Genoa and other cities before finishing with a six-week long run in Rome at the Teatro Quirino.▼
▲Following the end of the Second World War, Bartok decided to enter the acting profession, and successfully sat an
▲She then performed in Gáspár
▲She first appeared in front of the camera was in the 1947 Hungarian film ''
In 1951 ''A Tale of Five Cities'' was finally released in the United Kingdom and among the people who saw it were actor-producer [[Burt Lancaster]] and director [[Robert Siodmak]] who were visiting England looking for an actress to play opposite Lancaster as his romantic interest, Consuelo in the upcoming production of the comedy-adventure film ''[[The Crimson Pirate]]''. Impressed by Bartok’s performance and appearance they telegraphed her in Italy asking for her to attend a screen test. Bartok by now wary of countless unsuccessful auditions replied “No test. Send script.” To her surprise she was offered the role and was asked to report for location shooting on the island of Ischia. In total she spent over three months working on the project.▼
▲Feeling threatened and persecuted by the new [[Communism|Communist]] regime in Hungary, she asked for help from Hollywood-based Hungarian producer [[Alexander Paal]], who had been a friend of her father. Paal arranged a "passport marriage", and took her to London.
Also in 1952 Bartok appeared alongside Richard Todd in ''The Venetian Bird''.▼
▲To assist in gaining parts on the advice of theatrical publicity agent William Wordsworth
▲Bartok came to the attention of
In 1953 Bartok made her first German film ''[[Circus of Love]]| Rummelplatz Der Liebe (Circus of Love)]]'', starring opposite actor Curd Jürgens. Their on-screen chemistry led to a demand for more collaborations. These came one after another in rapid succession, ''[[The Last Waltz (1953 film)| Der letzte Walzer]]'', ''Meines Vaters Pferde I. Teil Lena und Nicoline'' and ''[[Orient Express (1954 film)|Orient Express]]''.▼
▲In 1951, ''A Tale of Five Cities'' was finally released in the United Kingdom.
In 1955 Bartok acted on the stage in ''The Lovers'', at the Opera House in Manchester, England. Directed by Sam Wanamaker, it was an adaptation and translation of Émile Zola's novel, ''[[Thérèse Raquin]]'' by Marcelle Maurette.<ref name=IMDb>{{cite web |title= Eva Bartok |publisher= International Movie Database |url= https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0058982/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 |accessdate= 31 January 2022}}</ref>▼
In 1957 Bartok appeared in the musical ''[[Ten Thousand Bedrooms]]'', opposite [[Dean Martin]]. The movie was filmed in Italy and in Hollywood and for a time she resided in Los Angeles. ▼
▲Also in 1952, Bartok appeared alongside Richard Todd in ''[[The Venetian Bird]]''.
Following that production her best known roles were in ''[[The Doctor of Stalingrad]]'' which was released in 1958 and in 1961's ''Es muß nicht immer Kaviar sein'', opposite [[O. W. Fischer]].▼
▲The success of ''The Crimson Pirate'' bought Bartok numerous role offers, though most were either in "B" movies and German-language movies. In 1953, Bartok made her first German film, ''[[Circus of Love
▲In 1955, Bartok acted on the stage in ''The Lovers'', at the Opera House in Manchester, England. Directed by [[Sam Wanamaker]], it was an adaptation and translation of [[Émile Zola]]'s novel, ''[[Thérèse Raquin]]'', by Marcelle Maurette.<ref name=IMDb>{{cite web |title= Eva Bartok |publisher=
▲In 1957, Bartok appeared in the musical ''[[Ten Thousand Bedrooms]]'', opposite [[Dean Martin]]. The movie was filmed in Italy and in Hollywood, and for a time, she resided in Los Angeles.
▲Following that production, her best
In 1955, Bartok published a novel, ''Fighting Shadows'', and in 1959, an autobiography, ''Worth Living For''.<ref name=LATimes/>▼
==Later life==
Bartok had been introduced to the philosophy of the [[Subud]] sect, while being treated for ovarian cancer in the late 1950s. As her career declined in the mid-1960s, she began spending more and more involvement with the sect, and ended up spending three years studying with the sect near Jakarta, Indonesia.<ref name=AP/> She later taught its philosophy in a school she opened in Honolulu.
In the last years of her life, she lived as a permanent paying guest in a small London hotel.<ref name=LATimes>{{cite web |last= Oliver |first= Myrna |title= Eva Bartok; Acted in U.S., Foreign Films |
She died on 1 August 1998 at St. Charles's Hospital in London.<ref name=Vallance/><ref name=AP/>
▲In 1955 Bartok published a novel, ''Fighting Shadows'' and in 1959 an autobiography, ''Worth Living For''.<ref name=LATimes/>
==Personal life==
[[File:Eva Bartok 1958.jpg|thumb|Bartok with daughter, Deana Jürgens (1958)]]▼
Bartok was married from 1944 to Hungarian officer Géza Kovács, until it was [[annulment|annulled]] after the Second World War, on the grounds of [[coercion]] of a minor.
Her second husband was the producer [[Alexander Paal]], who had assisted her in her escape from Hungary in 1948. They divorced in 1951.
She acquired British citizenship through her third marriage to English theatrical publicity agent William "Bill" Wordsworth in 1952. Wordsworth was the great-great-grandson of the poet of the same name.<ref name=LATimes/> That marriage fell apart, with him claiming that she had deserted him within a month of their marriage, to move to Rome to make a
She met the British aristocrat [[David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven]], at a London dinner in 1952.<ref
Her relationship with Mountbatten ended after Bartok began a relationship with German actor [[Curd Jürgens]] when they acted in a movie together in Germany. Amidst great media interest, she married Jürgens on 13 August 1955 in [[Schliersee]], Germany.<ref name=NYT2>{{cite web |title= Eva Bartok Wed to Actor |
Three decades later, Bartok claimed Deana's biological father was actually [[Frank Sinatra]], as a result of a very brief affair in 1956 with him, following the
In 1980 Bartok married her fifth husband, the American producer Dag Molin and lived with him in Los Angeles until their divorce in 1983.▼
▲In 1980, Bartok married her fifth husband, the American producer Dag Molin, and lived with him in Los Angeles until their divorce in 1983.
==Partial filmography==
Among the films that Bartok acted in are:<ref name=IMDb/>
[[File:Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957) still 2.JPG|thumb|upright=1.4|[[Film still|Publicity still]] for ''[[Ten Thousand Bedrooms]]'', with [[Dean Martin]]
▲[[File:Eva Bartok 1958.jpg|thumb|Bartok with daughter, Deana Jürgens (1958)]]
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▲[[File:Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957) still 2.JPG|thumb|upright=1.4|[[Film still|Publicity still]] with [[Dean Martin]], [[Anna Maria Alberghetti]], Bartok, and [[Dewey Martin (actor)|Dewey Martin]] for ''[[Ten Thousand Bedrooms]]'']]
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*''[[Madeleine (1950 film)|Madeleine]]'' (1950) Uncredited.
*''[[A Tale of Five Cities]]'' (1951) It had the alternative titles of ''Passaporto per l'oriente'' in Italy and ''A Tale of Five Women'' in the United States.
*''[[The Crimson Pirate]]'' (1952)
*''[[Venetian Bird]]'' (1952). Released in the US as ''The Assassin''.
*''[[Spaceways]]'' (1953)
*''[[Park Plaza 605]]'' (1953).
*''[[Circus of Love]]'' (1953) Filmed in German under the title ''Rummelplatz Der Liebe''.▼
*''[[The Last Waltz (1953 film)|The Last Waltz]]'' (1953) Filmed in German under the title ''Der letzte Walzer''.
*''Meines Vaters Pferde I. Teil Lena und Nicoline'' (1954)
*''[[Front Page Story]]'' (1954)
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*''[[Orient Express (1954 film)|Orient Express]]'' (1954)
*''[[Break in the Circle]]'' (1955)
*''[[Special Delivery (1955 film)|Special Delivery]]'' (1955). Released in German with title ''Von Himmel Gefallen''.
*''[[Dunja (film)|Dunja]]'' (English: ''Her Crime Was Love'', 1955)
*''[[The Gamma People]]'' (1956)
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*''[[Through the Forests and Through the Trees]] (1956). Filmed in German under the title ''Durch die Wälder, durch die Auen''.
*''[[Ten Thousand Bedrooms]]'' (1957)
*''[[The Doctor of Stalingrad]]'' (1958). Filmed in German under the title ''Der Arzt von Stalingrad''.
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*''[[Operation Amsterdam]]'' (1959)
*''[[Twelve Hours by the Clock]]'' (1959)
*''[[SOS Pacific]]'' (1959)
*''Ein Student ging vorbei'' (1960)
*''[[Beyond the Curtain]]'' (1960)
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*''{{ill|It Can't Always Be Caviar|de|Es muß nicht immer Kaviar sein (Film)}}'' (1961)
*''{{ill|This Time It Must Be Caviar|de|Diesmal
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*''Avventura al motel'' (1963)
*''Ferien wie noch nie'' (1963)
*''[[Blood and Black Lace]]'' (1964)
*''Sabina'' (1966)
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==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book |last= Banville |first= John |
*{{cite book |last= Bartok |first= Eva |title= Worth Living For |location= |publisher= [[G. P. Putnam's Sons|
*{{cite book |last= Lamparski |first= Richard |title=
==External links==
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* [http://evabartok.tripod.com A tribute to Eva Bartok]
* [http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-28957027.html "Talent ist nicht alles"], cover story of ''[[Der Spiegel]]'', 21 July 1954 {{in lang|de}}
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