Marika Rökk(1913-2004)
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Marika Rokk was born in Cairo on the 3rd of November 1913. As a child
she moved to Hungary. In Paris at the Moulin Rouge she started her
career as a dancer, soon moving on to Broadway New York City, USA.
She made her first films
Why Sailors Leave Home (1930)
in London, & also
Kiss Me Sergeant (1930) in
London, U.K.
After that she made 2 very fine films in Hungary, her home.
Miss Rokk made her first German film:
Light Cavalry (1935) in
1935 it made her a Star overnight. Soon she married German Film
Director Georg Jacoby and her 2nd German
film was
Der Bettelstudent (1936),
directed by him.
In 1939 she made
It Was a Gay Ballnight (1939)
with superstar Zarah Leander and started
filming the first German color film
Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten (1941)
which was finished and released two years later.
The couple had one child, Gabriele Jacoby. Miss Rökk also married
Fred Raul. She retired from films in the 1960s
but continued to perform in Operetta's like "Die Blume von Hawaii" &
others on the stage across Europe before retiring to Baden, Austria.
She died of a heart attack May 16, 2004.
she moved to Hungary. In Paris at the Moulin Rouge she started her
career as a dancer, soon moving on to Broadway New York City, USA.
She made her first films
Why Sailors Leave Home (1930)
in London, & also
Kiss Me Sergeant (1930) in
London, U.K.
After that she made 2 very fine films in Hungary, her home.
Miss Rokk made her first German film:
Light Cavalry (1935) in
1935 it made her a Star overnight. Soon she married German Film
Director Georg Jacoby and her 2nd German
film was
Der Bettelstudent (1936),
directed by him.
In 1939 she made
It Was a Gay Ballnight (1939)
with superstar Zarah Leander and started
filming the first German color film
Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten (1941)
which was finished and released two years later.
The couple had one child, Gabriele Jacoby. Miss Rökk also married
Fred Raul. She retired from films in the 1960s
but continued to perform in Operetta's like "Die Blume von Hawaii" &
others on the stage across Europe before retiring to Baden, Austria.
She died of a heart attack May 16, 2004.