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{{Short description|Hungarian-British actress (1927–1998)}}
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{{eastern name order|Szőke Ivanovics Éva Márta
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| 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]]
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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 Hungarian-British actress. She began acting in films in 1950, and her last credited appearance was in 1966. She acted in more than 40 American, British, German, Hungarian, French, and Israeli films. She is best known for appearances in ''[[Blood and Black Lace]]'', ''[[The Crimson Pirate]]'', ''[[Operation Amsterdam]]'', and ''[[Ten Thousand Bedrooms]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title= Continuing the Eva Bartok story |newspaper= [[The Sunday Mail (Brisbane)]] |date= 29 November 1953 |url= http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article100178762|access-date=26 October 2017 |page= 23 |via= National Library of Australia}}</ref>
==Early life==
Bartok was born Éva Márta Szőke Ivanovics in [[Kecskemét]], Hungary, to a [[Judaism|Jewish
Following the outbreak of the war, her father stayed in [[Budapest]]. Bartok and her mother moved to live in Kecskemét, to the south of the city, 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 aged 15 to gain protection by marrying Géza Kovács, a Hungarian officer who had Nazi connections.<ref name=Vallance/>
Kovács disappeared following the occupation of 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>
==Career==
Following the end of the Second World War, Bartok decided to enter the acting profession, and successfully sat an
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
She first appeared in front of the camera was in the 1947 Hungarian film ''
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.
To assist in gaining parts on the advice of theatrical publicity agent William Wordsworth
Bartok came to the attention of an 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.
In 1951, ''A Tale of Five Cities'' was finally released in the United Kingdom.
Also in 1952, Bartok appeared alongside Richard Todd in ''[[The Venetian Bird]]''.
The success of ''The Crimson Pirate'' bought Bartok numerous role offers, though most were either in "B" movies and German
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= Internet Movie Database |url= https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0058982/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 |access-date= 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.
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 |work= Los Angeles Times |date= 5 August 1998 |url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-05-mn-10404-story.html |access-date= 29 January 2022}}</ref>
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==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 movie in 1952, but the divorce was not finalised until 7 March 1955, with Bartok not contesting Wordsworth's application.<ref name=NYT1>{{cite web |title= Eva Bartok Divorced |work=[[The New York Times]]|date= 8 March 1955 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1955/03/08/archives/eva-bartok-divorced.html
She met the British aristocrat [[David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven]], at a London dinner in 1952.<ref>{{cite web |title= Eva Bartok |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date= 17 August 1998 |url=
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 |work=[[The New York Times]]|date= 14 August 1955 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1955/08/14/archives/eva-bartok-wed-to-actor.html
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 break-up of Sinatra's marriage to [[Ava Gardner]].<ref name=ct940817>{{cite news |title= British woman, 36, claims she is Sinatra's daughter |publisher= [[Chicago Tribune]] |page= 2 |date= 17 August 1994|url= https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24120284.html?dids=24120284:24120284&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT |access-date= 29 April 2012}}</ref><ref name=IE /> Bartok had first met Frank Sinatra at a party while she was in Hollywood in 1955, while appearing in the film ''[[Ten Thousand Bedrooms]]
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]] holding [[Anna Maria Alberghetti]], and [[Dewey Martin (actor)|Dewey Martin]] holding Bartok]]
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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).
*''[[The Last Waltz (1953 film)|The Last Waltz]]'' (1953) Filmed in German under the title ''Der letzte Walzer''.
*''[[Circus of Love]]'' (1954) Filmed in German under the title ''Rummelplatz Der Liebe''.
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*''[[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)
*''{{Interlanguage link
*''[[Blind Justice (1961 film)|Blind Justice]]'' (1961). Filmed in German under the title ''Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit''.
*''{{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 muß es Kaviar sein}}'' (1961)
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*''Avventura al motel'' (1963)
*''Ferien wie noch nie'' (1963)
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book |last= Banville |first= John |author-link= John Banville |title= Prague Pictures: Portrait of a City |location= London |publisher= Bloomsbury Publishing |date=
*{{cite book |last= Bartok |first= Eva |title= Worth Living For |location= |publisher= [[G. P. Putnam's Sons|Putnam]] |date= 1959|ref=none}}
*{{cite book |last= Lamparski |first= Richard |title=
==External links==
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