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词条 Ilona Massey
释义

  1. Early life and career

  2. Recognition

  3. Politics

  4. Death

  5. Partial filmography

  6. References

  7. External links

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Ilona Massey (born Ilona Hajmássy, June 16, 1910 – August 20, 1974[1]) was a Hungarian film, stage and radio performer.

Early life and career

She was born in Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Hungary). Billed as "the new Dietrich", she acted in three films with Nelson Eddy, including Rosalie (1937), and with Lon Chaney Jr. in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) as Baroness Frankenstein. In 1943, she appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies.

In 1947, she starred with Eddy in Northwest Outpost, a musical film composed by Rudolf Friml.[2] In 1949, she starred in Love Happy with the Marx Brothers. She played Madame Egelichi, a femme fatale spy, and her performance inspired Milton Caniff in the creation of his femme fatale spy, Madame Lynx, in the comic strip "Steve Canyon". Caniff hired Massey to pose for him.[3]

In 1950, Massey was one of the stars of the NBC spy show Top Secret on radio.[4] In 1952 she began starring in Rendezvous on ABC television. The program was described in a magazine article as "a mystery-drama with plenty of glamour thrown in."[5]

Beginning on November 1, 1954, she hosted DuMont's The Ilona Massey Show, a weekly musical variety show in which she sang songs with guests in a nightclub set, with music provided by the Irving Fields Trio.[6] The series ended January 3, 1955, after 10 episodes.

Recognition

Massey has a star at 1623 Vine Street on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was dedicated February 8, 1960.[7]

Politics

Becoming an American citizen in 1946, she remained strongly anti-communist for what she saw as the destruction of her native country, at one point picketing the United Nations during the 1956 visit of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. A registered Republican, she supported the campaign of Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election[8].

Death

Ilona Massey died of cancer in Bethesda, Maryland, and is buried in Virginia's Arlington National Cemetery near her last husband, Donald Dawson, who had served in the United States Air Force Reserve as a major general.

Partial filmography

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  • Heaven on Earth (1935) as Operettendiva Fioritta
  • Circus Saran (1935) as Eine Sängerin
  • Rosalie (1937) as Brenda
  • Balalaika (1939) as Lydia Pavlovna Marakova
  • International Lady (1941) as Carla Nillson
  • The Great Awakening (1941) as Anna
  • Invisible Agent (1942) as Maria Sorenson
  • Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) as Baroness Elsa Frankenstein
  • Holiday in Mexico (1946) as Countess Toni Karpathy
  • Northwest Outpost (1947) as Natalia Alanova
  • The Plunderers (1948) as Lin Connor
  • Love Happy (1949) as Madame Egelichi
  • Jet Over the Atlantic (1959) as Mme. Galli-Cazetti
  • The Cool Ones (1967) as Toni Karpathy (uncredited)
{{div col end}}

References

1. ^However her date of birth has also been cited as July 5, 1912 and her date of death as August 10 or 12, 1974. This article uses the dates on her gravestone, on the assumption that they are the most accurate.
2. ^[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039667/ Northwest Outpost] at the IMDB database, accessed June 23, 2010
3. ^Pageant May 1953, V8 n11
4. ^{{cite news |newspaper=Toronto Telegram |date=July 6, 1950 |page=13 |title=Radio and Television Listings}}
5. ^{{cite journal|last1=Warren|first1=Jill|title=What's New from Coast to Coast|journal=Radio-TV Mirror|date=April 1952|volume=17|issue=5|page=13|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Mirror/53/Mirror-1953-Apr.pdf|accessdate=1 December 2014}}
6. ^Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010. McFarland & Company, Inc. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-6477-7}}. P. 496.
7. ^{{cite web|title=Ilona Massey|url=http://www.walkoffame.com/ilona-massey|website=Hollywood Walk of Fame|accessdate=15 July 2016}}
8. ^Motion Picture and Television Magazine, November 1952, page 34, Ideal Publishers

External links

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  • {{Find a Grave|6543}}
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