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Marika Rökk
Actress + Singer + Dancer
Female
Born
Nov 3, 1913
Hometown
Cairo
Died
May 16, 2004
Death Place
Baden bei Wien
Marika Rökk was an Austrian-German singer, dancer and actress of Hungarian descent, who became famous in German films, notably in the Nazi era.
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CHILDHOOD
1913
Birth
Born on November 3, 1913.
1924
10 Years Old
Rökk was born in Cairo, Egypt, the daughter of the Hungarian architect and contractor Eduard Rökk and his wife Maria Karoly. She spent her early childhood in Budapest, before in 1924 her family moved to Paris.
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TEENAGE
1929
15 Years Old
In 1929 she returned to Europe and the next year acted in her first film, Why Sailors Leave Home, a British comedy directed by Monty Banks, starring Leslie Fuller.
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TWENTIES
1934
20 Years Old
As an acclaimed revue dancer on numerous European stages, Rökk was selected as the ideal candidate to be groomed and promoted as this new type of star and in 1934 was offered a two-year contract with the UFA in Nazi Germany, where she became one of the most prolific film stars of the time.
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1939
25 Years Old
Der Bettelstudent and Gasparone, followed by Hello Janine! in 1939, all starred her together with Johannes Heesters and established them as the "dream couple" of the musical comedy genre.
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1940
26 Years Old
With a double role in Kora Terry, a 1940 film directed by her future husband Georg Jacoby, she reached new heights.
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1941
27 Years Old
In the same year, she appeared in the propaganda film Wunschkonzert by Eduard von Borsody (as herself), followed by her performance in Georg Jacoby's lavish Women Are Better Diplomats (Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten, UFA's first Agfacolor motion picture) in 1941, together with Willy Fritsch.
THIRTIES
1944
30 Years Old
She reached the peak of her career in 1944, with the star role in The Woman of My Dreams, a lavishly enacted musical colour film again directed by Georg Jacoby.
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1947
33 Years Old
After the war, she initially received a Berufsverbot (profession ban), but was rehabilitated in 1947 and could continue her movie career in West Germany and Austria.
1948
34 Years Old
In 1948 she was among the first recipients of the German Bambi media award.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2004
91 Years Old
Died on May 16, 2004.
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