Karády Katalin

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Katalin Karády (December 8, 1910, Budapest - February 8, 1990, New York) was a Hungarian actress and singer. A leading actress in Hungarian movies made between 1939–1945, she is best known outside Hungary as an awardee of the Righteous among the Nations honorific for rescuing a number of Hungarian Jews. Katalin Karády was born as Katalin Kanczler, on 8 December 1910 in Budapest. She spent her childhood in Kőbánya district with seven siblings in great poverty. Her parents were Rozália Lőrinc and Ferenc Kanczler, a shoemaker, who Katalin remembered as an aggressive person. Helped by a charity organization, she spent five years in Switzerland and the Netherlands. After returning home, she studied in a Women's Marketing school, already famed for her beauty. With the language knowledge from previous years, her simple clothing and vigorous demand for cleanness she already stood out from her classmates. After her father's death in 1931 she married Rezső Varga, a customs official, 30 years older than herself, but they divorced after a few months. She started acting in 1936, taking classes from Ernő Tarnay, and Artúr Bárdos. After gaining the attention of journalist Zoltán Egyed in a bar in Buda (who also proposed the name Karády) she was introduced to Ilona Aczél, a former actress, in whose acting school she learned the basics of the profession in the following three years, including singing. Karády's first performance was at the end of the 30s, in the Joób Dániel theatre. Between

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Hungarian Retro Music / Karády Katalin, Volume 4

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Volt Egyszer Egy Hangulat, Vol. 1

Ne kérdezd, ki voltam (Válogatás Karády Katalin legnépszerűbb slágereiből)

Karády Katalin

Hungarian Retro Music / Karády Katalin, Volume 1

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Volt Egyszer Egy Hangulat, Vol. 2

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Karády-Összes (Disc 3)

Hungarian Retro Music / Karády Katalin, Volume 3

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Hungarian Retro Music / Karády Katalin, Volume 2

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Karády-Összes (Disc 2)

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Karády I.

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The Hungarian Song / Τhe Songs of Defries Karoly

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