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Steffi Duna is a Actor Hongroise born on 7 february 1910 at Budapest (Hongrie)

Steffi Duna

Steffi Duna
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Birth name Berindey Erzsébet Stefánia
Nationality Hongrie
Birth 7 february 1910 at Budapest (Hongrie)
Death 22 april 1992 (at 82 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)

Steffi Duna (8 February 1910 – 22 April 1992) was a Hungarian-born film actress.

Biography

Sous le pseudonyme de Steffi Duna, alors qu'elle réside au Royaume-Uni, elle débute au cinéma dans deux films britanniques tournés en 1932 (le second sort en janvier 1933). Le premier est The Indiscretions of Eve, avec Jessica Tandy — qui débute également au cinéma dans ce film —. Puis, cette même année 1932, elle émigre aux États-Unis, où elle s'installe définitivement. Hormis une coproduction italo-britannique en 1936 (le film musical Pagliacci, d'après l'opéra éponyme de Ruggero Leoncavallo), elle contribue à vingt-quatre films américains (souvent dans des seconds rôles "exotiques", notamment de type hispanique), le premier sorti en 1934. L'un des plus connus est un autre film musical de 1936, Le Danseur pirate, entièrement tourné en Technicolor, où elle tient le premier rôle féminin, aux côtés de Charles Collins et Frank Morgan ; elle y chante et danse, ayant reçu une formation de danseuse dans sa jeunesse, en Hongrie.

Si elle participe surtout à des productions de la RKO Pictures, Steffi Duna travaille également pour d'autres compagnies hollywoodiennes : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (ex : La Valse dans l'ombre de 1940), Paramount Pictures, Republic Pictures, 20th Century Fox et Warner Bros. (ex : Anthony Adverse de 1936), sans compter quelques productions indépendantes.

Pour son unique apparition au théâtre à Broadway (New York), elle interprète Polly Peachum lors de la création américaine de L'Opéra de quat'sous de Kurt Weill (musique) et Bertolt Brecht (livret), en 1933.

En 1940, année où elle épouse en secondes noces l'acteur américain Dennis O'Keefe (dont elle restera veuve au décès de celui-ci en 1968), Steffi Duna se retire définitivement.

Best films

Dancing Pirate (1936)
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Filmography of Steffi Duna (24 films)

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Actress

The Great McGinty, 1h22
Directed by Preston Sturges, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest, Allyn Joslyn, Jimmy Conlin
Roles The Dancing Girl
Rating71% 3.5959253.5959253.5959253.5959253.595925
Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy) is a bartender in a banana republic who recounts his rise and fall to the bar's dancing girl and an American customer. The customer was a trusted bank employee who can no longer return to the United States and his family because he is wanted by the law after falling to temptation and stealing from the bank. McGinty is in a similar situation, but in his case it is due to "one crazy minute" of honesty rather than one of dishonesty. In a long flashback, he explains.
Waterloo Bridge, 1h48
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Political films, Films based on plays, Erotic thriller films
Actors Robert Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Lucile Watson, Virginia Field, Maria Ouspenskaïa, C. Aubrey Smith
Roles Lydia
Rating76% 3.847383.847383.847383.847383.84738
After Britain's declaration of World War II, Roy Cronin (Robert Taylor), an army colonel, is being driven to London's Waterloo Station en route to France, and briefly alights on Waterloo Bridge to reminisce about events which occurred during the First World War when he met Myra Lester (Vivien Leigh) whom he had planned to marry. While Roy gazes at a good luck charm, a billiken that she had given him, the story unfolds.
Phantom Raiders, 1h10
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Actors Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Joseph Schildkraut, Florence Rice, Nat Pendleton, John Carroll
Roles Dolores
Rating60% 3.049473.049473.049473.049473.04947
Nick Carter, aidé de Bartholomew, enquête sur des disparitions de cargos lors de leur passage du Canal de Panama.
The Marines Fly High, 1h8
Directed by George Nichols Jr., Benjamin Stoloff, George Nicholls, Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Richard Dix, Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Steffi Duna, John Eldredge, Paul Harvey
Roles Teresa
Rating54% 2.72062.72062.72062.72062.7206
In 1940, the Central American cocoa plantation owned by American Joan Grant (Lucille Ball) needs protection from bandits led by El Vengador (John Eldredge). She asks the Marines stationed nearby under the command of Colonel Hill (Paul Harvey) for help. Lieutenants Danny Darrick (Richard Dix) and Jim Malone (Chester Morris) fly a mission to seek out the outlaws. Although they have orders to protect her, both men vie for Joan's affection.
Hitler: Beast of Berlin, 1h27
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Roland Drew, Steffi Duna, Vernon Dent, Alan Ladd, Lucien Prival, George Rosener
Roles Elsa Memling
Rating50% 2.5369552.5369552.5369552.5369552.536955
A man and his wife lead a German anti-Nazi propaganda literature movement. After an inadvertent betrayal, the husband is thrown into a concentration camp, from which he escapes to Switzerland.
Way Down South
Directed by Leslie Goodwins, Bernard Vorhaus, John Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Bobby Breen, Ralph Morgan, Alan Mowbray, Steffi Duna, Clarence Muse, Sally Blane
Roles Pauline Dubini
Rating55% 2.764152.764152.764152.764152.76415
In pre-Civil War Louisiana in 1854, young Timothy Reid Jr. (Breen) is orphaned. He inherits a plantation and its well-cared-for slaves. However, lawyer Martin Dill (Maxwell) is made the executor for the minor. Dill plots to sell off the slaves and flee to Paris with the proceeds. Timothy is befriended by Jacques Bouton (Mowbray), who persuades Judge Louis Ravenal (Greig) to look into the matter and save the day.
Panama Lady
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Romance
Actors Lucille Ball, Steffi Duna, Allan Lane, Evelyn Brent, Donald Briggs, Bernadene Hayes
Roles Cheema
Rating58% 2.9046352.9046352.9046352.9046352.904635
Panama Lady is a cleaned-up remake of the 1932 Helen Twelvetrees vehicle Panama Flo. Lucille Ball essays the old Twelvetrees role as Lucy, a nightclub "hostess" stranded in Panama by her ex-lover Roy (Donald Briggs). Victimized by a shakedown orchestrated by Roy, oil rigger McTeague (Allan Lane) holds Lucy responsible. To avoid landing in jail, Lucy agrees to accompany McTeague to his oil camp as his housekeeper. Assuming she's been brought to this godforsaken spot for sexual purposes, Lucy eventually realizes that McTeague's intentions are honorable: All he wants is his money back, and he expects our heroine to work off the debt on her feet! Ultimately Lucy and McTeague fall in love, but not before the scurrilous Roy re-enters her life.
Law of the Pampas, 1h12
Directed by Nate Watt
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Actors William Boyd, Russell "Lucky" Hayden, Sidney Toler, Steffi Duna, Sidney Blackmer, Pedro de Cordoba
Roles Chiquita
Rating67% 3.3789753.3789753.3789753.3789753.378975
Hoppy William Boyd) and his pal Lucky (Russell Hayden) head to South America to look after a herd of cattle sold by Cassidy's boss to an Argentine rancher. Villain Ralph Merritt (Sidney Blackmer) wants to get his mitts on that cattle, and he's not above hiring the scum of the earth to do his bidding. Fortunately, Hoppy, Lucky and their new Latino buddy Fernando (Sidney Toler) make short work of the bad guys in an outsized barroom brawl.
Escape by Night, 1h4
Directed by Hamilton MacFadden
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors William Hall, Anne Nagel, Dean Jagger, Steffi Duna, Ward Bond, Murray Alper
Roles Josephine 'Jo' Elliott
Rating59% 2.952912.952912.952912.952912.95291
Des escrocs runyonesques sur le lam se cachent dans la ferme pastorale des aveugles et décident d'aller tout droit.
Anthony Adverse, 2h21
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Woods, Anita Louise, Edmund Gwenn, Claude Rains
Roles Neleta
Rating62% 3.1459553.1459553.1459553.1459553.145955
In 1773, Maria Bonnyfeather (Anita Louise) is the new bride of the cruel and devious middle-aged nobleman Marquis Don Luis (Claude Rains). However, she is pregnant by Denis Moore (Louis Hayward), the man she loved before being forced to marry Don Luis. After the marquis learns of his wife's affair, Don Luis takes her away but Denis tracks them down at an inn, where Don Luis treacherously kills him in a sword fight.