Marika Rkk (German: [ma.i.ka k] (listen); born Marie Karoline Rkk, 3
November 1913 16 May 2004) was a Hungarian dancer, singer and actress
who gained prominence in German films in the Nazi era. She resumed her
career in 1947 and was one of Europe's most famous operetta singers,
performing onstage until 1986.Marie Karoline Rkk was born in 1913 in
Cairo, Egypt, the daughter of Hungarian architect and contractor
Eduard Rkk and his wife, Maria Karoline Charlotte (born Karoly) Rkk.
She spent her childhood in Budapest, but in 1924 her family moved to
Paris where her father had been contractually engaged. Here she
learned to dance and starred with the Hoffmann Girls at the Moulin
Rouge cabaret.After a tour that led her to Broadway she continued her
dance training in the United States, where she worked with Ned
Wayburn. 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.She made her real breakthrough when the
Universum Film AG (UFA) attempted to create a German film star to
rival Hollywood's top musical star actresses Eleanor Powell, Ginger
Rogers and later, Alice Faye, Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable. The
Third Reich's Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, admired
Hollywood movies and examined them carefully in regular private
screenings.
November 1913 16 May 2004) was a Hungarian dancer, singer and actress
who gained prominence in German films in the Nazi era. She resumed her
career in 1947 and was one of Europe's most famous operetta singers,
performing onstage until 1986.Marie Karoline Rkk was born in 1913 in
Cairo, Egypt, the daughter of Hungarian architect and contractor
Eduard Rkk and his wife, Maria Karoline Charlotte (born Karoly) Rkk.
She spent her childhood in Budapest, but in 1924 her family moved to
Paris where her father had been contractually engaged. Here she
learned to dance and starred with the Hoffmann Girls at the Moulin
Rouge cabaret.After a tour that led her to Broadway she continued her
dance training in the United States, where she worked with Ned
Wayburn. 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.She made her real breakthrough when the
Universum Film AG (UFA) attempted to create a German film star to
rival Hollywood's top musical star actresses Eleanor Powell, Ginger
Rogers and later, Alice Faye, Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable. The
Third Reich's Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, admired
Hollywood movies and examined them carefully in regular private
screenings.
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