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Ági Donáth (25 March 1918 – 16 February 2008) was a Hungarian-born American child actress, who appeared in a dozen or so films during the 1930s, most notably, Sister Maria . She was born on 25 March 1918 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. On 24 June 1938 she married producer Emeric Pressburger.
Ági Donáth was born on March 25, 1918 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. She was an actress, known for Megvédtem egy asszonyt (1938), Tokaji rapszódia (1937) and I Married for Love (1937). She was married to Emeric Pressburger and Byron Anderson. She died on February 16, 2008 in Palm Desert, California, USA.
- March 25, 1918
- February 16, 2008
Tokay Rhapsody (Hungarian: Tokaji rapszódia) is a 1937 Hungarian comedy film directed by Johann von Vásáry and starring Ági Donáth, Blanka Szombathelyi and Árpád Lehotay.
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Imre József Pressburger was born in Miskolc, in the Kingdom of Hungary, of Jewish heritage. He was the only son (he had one elder half-sister from his father's previous marriage) of Kálmán Pressburger, estate manager, and his second wife, Kätherina (née Wichs). He attended a boarding-school in Temesvár, where he was a good pupil, excelling at mathe...
Berlin and Paris
Pressburger began a career as a journalist. After working in Hungary and Weimar Republic-era Germany he turned to screenwriting in the late 1920s, working for UFA in Berlin (having moved there in 1926). The rise of the Nazisforced him to flee to Paris, where he again worked as screenwriter, and then to London. He later said, "[the] worst things that happened to me were the political consequences of events beyond my control ... the best things were exactly the same." Pressburger's early films...
Emigrated to the UK
Pressburger arrived in Britain in 1935 as a stateless person; once he decided to settle, he changed his name to Emeric in 1938. In England he found a small community of Hungarian film-makers who had fled the Nazis, including Alexander Korda, owner of London Films, who employed him as a screenwriter. Asked by Korda to improve the script for The Spy in Black (1939), he met the film's director, Michael Powell. Their partnership would produce some of the finest British films of the next decade.Ho...
Later work
Powell and Pressburger began to go their separate ways after the mid-1950s. They remained close friends but wanted to explore different things, having done about as much as they could together. Two of his later films were made under the pseudonym "Richard Imrie". Two novels by Pressburger were published. The first Killing a Mouse on a Sunday (1961), is set in the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War. It received favourable reviews and was soon translated into a dozen languages....
On 24 June 1938, Pressburger married Ági Donáth, the daughter of Andor Donáth, a general merchant, but they divorced in 1941. The union was childless. He remarried, on 29 March 1947, to Wendy Orme, and they had a daughter, Angela, and another child who died as a baby in 1948; but this marriage also ended in divorce in Reno, Nevada in 1953 and in Br...
1943: Oscar winner for 49th Parallel as Best Writing, Original Story. (This Oscar is on display at the Savile Club in London).1943: Oscar nominated for 49th Parallel as Best Writing, Screenplay. Shared with Rodney Ackland1943: Oscar nominated for One of Our Aircraft Is Missing for Best Writing, Original Screenplay. Shared with Michael Powell1948: Won Danish Bodil Award for A Matter of Life and Deathas Best European Film. Shared with Michael PowellKilling a Mouse on Sunday. London: Collins, 1961. – made into the film Behold a Pale Horse(1964)The Glass Pearls. London: Heinemann, 1966.Emeric Pressburger at the Powell & Pressburger PagesEmeric Pressburger at IMDbEmeric Pressburger at the BFI's ScreenonlineÁgi Donáth (25 March 1918 – 16 February 2008) was a Hungarian-born American child actress, who appeared in a dozen or so films during the 1930s, most notably, Sister Maria. She was born on 25 March 1918 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary.
Donáth Ági ( Budapest, 1918. március 25. – Palm Desert, AEÁ, 2008. február 16.) színésznő. Életútja. Apja Donáth Andor (vagy Antal) kereskedő. Kezdetben mint Gaál Franciska dublőre szerepelt.
Ági Donáth Active - 1936 - 1938 | Birth - Mar 25, 1918 | Death - Feb 16, 2008 | Genres - Comedy , Drama , Romance Filmography ↓
