Marika Rökk (German: [ma.ËˆÊ iË .ka ËˆÊ Å"k] (listen); born Marie
Karoline Rökk, 3 November 1913 â€" 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 Rökk was born in 1913 in Cairo, Egypt, the daughter of
Hungarian architect and contractor Eduard Rökk and his wife, Maria
Karoline Charlotte (born Karoly) Rökk. 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.
Karoline Rökk, 3 November 1913 â€" 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 Rökk was born in 1913 in Cairo, Egypt, the daughter of
Hungarian architect and contractor Eduard Rökk and his wife, Maria
Karoline Charlotte (born Karoly) Rökk. 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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