Eva Bartok
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Born | Éva Márta Szőke Ivanovics 18 June 1927 Budapest, Hungary |
Died | 1 August 1998 London, England | (aged 71)
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1947–1966 |
Spouse(s) | Géza Kovács (1941–1942; annulled) Alexander Paal (1948–1950; divorced) William Wordsworth (1951–1955; divorced) Curd Jürgens (1955–1956; divorced)[1][2] Dag Molin (1980–1983; divorced)[3] |
Partner(s) | Frank Sinatra[1] David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven |
Children | Deana Jürgens (born 1957)[1] |
Éva Márta Szőke Ivanovics (18 June 1927[4] – 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 is best known for appearances in Blood and Black Lace, The Crimson Pirate, Operation Amsterdam, and Ten Thousand Bedrooms.[5]
Biography
During the Second World War, a teenaged Bartok, the daughter of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, was forced to marry Hungarian Nazi officer Géza Kovács; the marriage was annulled after the war on the grounds of coercion of a minor.[6]
She had four other marriages, all of which ended in divorce, including her final marriage, to actor Curd Jürgens (1955–56). Her daughter Deana was born in 1957, shortly after the marriage to Jürgens ended.[7][8] Three decades later, Bartok claimed Deana's biological father was actually Frank Sinatra, with whom she had a brief affair in 1956.[9]
She died on 1 August 1998 in London.[1]
Partial filmography
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- Mezei próféta (1947)
- A Tale of Five Cities (1951)
- The Crimson Pirate (1952)
- Venetian Bird (1952)
- Spaceways (1953)
- The Last Waltz (1953)
- Park Plaza 605 (1953)
- Front Page Story (1954)
- Circus of Love (1954)
- Victoria and Her Hussar (1954)
- Orient Express (1954)
- Break in the Circle (1955)
- Dunja (English: Her Crime Was Love, 1955)
- The Gamma People (1956)
- Without You All Is Darkness (1956)
- Through the Forests and Through the Trees (1956)
- Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)
- The Doctor of Stalingrad (1958)
- Madeleine Tel. 13 62 11 (a.k.a. Naked in the Night, 1958)
- Operation Amsterdam (1959)
- SOS Pacific (1959)
- Beyond the Curtain (1960)
- Ti aspetterò all'inferno (1960)
- Eheinstitut Aurora (English: Marriage Bureau Aurora, 1962)
- Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Books
- Bartok, Eva: Worth Living For. Autobiography. Putnam 1959.
- John Banville's Prague Pictures: Portrait of a City, 2003, discusses Bartok at some length.
Sources
- Lamparski, Richard. (1989) Whatever became of ...? Eleventh Series, Crown Publishers: New York. ISBN 0 517 571501.
References
- ^ a b c d Tom Vallance (3 August 1998). "Obituary: Eva Bartok". The Independent. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
- ^ Associated Press (5 August 1998). "Eva Bartok, 72, Actress in Films of 50's and 60's". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ^ "Eine Frau und ihre Männer" by André Weikard, filmreporter.de, 9 May 2019 (in German)
- ^ Some sources cite 1926, 1928 or 1929 as possible years of birth.
- ^ "Continuing the Eva Bartok story". The Sunday Mail (Brisbane). 29 November 1953. p. 23. Retrieved 26 October 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Eva Bartok, Turner Classic Movies; accessed 22 April 2018.
- ^ Emond, Bruce (23 October 2010). "The Star Who Came to Jakarta". The Jakarta Post. Archived from the original on 6 February 2012.
- ^ "Sinatra's secret child speaks out". The Indian Express. 19 May 1998.
- ^ "British woman, 36, claims she is Sinatra's daughter". Chicago Tribune. 17 August 1994. p. 2. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
External links
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- Eva Bartok at IMDb
- A tribute to Eva Bartok
- "Talent ist nicht alles", cover story of Der Spiegel, 21 July 1954 (in German)
- 1920s births
- 1998 deaths
- Hungarian emigrants to England
- Hungarian film actresses
- Hungarian Subud members
- Actresses from Budapest
- Disease-related deaths in England
- 20th-century Hungarian actresses
- Age controversies
- British film actresses
- 20th-century British actresses
- British people of Hungarian-Jewish descent
- Hungarian people of Jewish descent