Rekk Marika: biography, filmography, photo

Reck Marika has traveled around the world since her childhood: she was born in Cairo, grew up in Budapest, studied dancing in Paris, worked in New York on Broadway, in many European cities and capitals.

Childhood

So, Carolina Marie Reck was born in Egypt in the family of a successful architect in 1913. A little later, the family will return to Budapest. Despite the war, her father's business is not bad, there are orders for the construction of the plant. However, inflation eats up all the savings. By this time the family already lives in Paris since 1924.

Study

Back in Budapest Reck Marika began to learn to dance when she turned nine. And when the family moved to Paris, the girl was given to the dance school of classical ballet, led by Madame Rutkowski. Carolina's affairs are brilliant - they take her to the Moulin Rouge troupe. This was facilitated by a family friend, a Hungarian restaurateur, who drew the attention of the director of Moulin Rouge Gertrude Hoffman to the Hungarian dance miracle. The girl is eleven years old at the time. In the variety show, she quickly passes an acrobatic school, and she is taken on tour to New York. So Rekk Marika begins to perform on Broadway in the corps de ballet. Tours in the US last four years. During this time, all the subtleties of the dance are comprehended by a diligent and capable student.

London, Monte Carlo and other European cities

In the capital of Britain, Marika falls into sixteen years. She starts touring with London in 1929, but then returns to her native Budapest. Laszlo Szilagi makes his debut in the operetta "Random", which will be played two hundred and forty times. "Ball in Savoy" will be held ninety-two times, "Wild Flower" - a hundred and forty times.

It is necessary to comprehend the sciences

Constant employment on the stage, rehearsals and performances do not give an opportunity to study in an ordinary school. Classes with her father. In addition, he becomes her producer, concludes contracts, as Reck Marika is still a minor. The father is guarding the interests of his daughter, he is afraid of all theatrical directors. Finally, they pay attention to her in the cinema.

The first motion pictures

Of course, the contract was concluded by the father. The first roles were small, second plan, even episodic. But both Marika and father understand that behind this art is the future. Since the early thirties, Marika has been shooting Hungarian musical films, where singing, talking and dancing alternate. But already in 1933 she will play the first major role in the Hungarian musical comedy "The Train of Ghosts". After the overwhelming success in Vienna on tour, the revue "Stern Manege" in 1934, she was invited to Germany and signed a two-year contract for filming.

At the UFA Film Factory

The first film "Light Cavalry" brought the prima donna a great success. But only film director Georg Jacobi will fully reveal her sparkling talent. They will start working together in 1936, and in 1940, she will become his wife and give birth to his daughter Gabriele, who will later become an actress, and the son of Fred Paul. But filming in German films requires perfect pronunciation. It hones the actress. For this, a German teacher is invited. In addition, it is strictly monitored that she adhere to a diet and a certain schedule of the day. Telephone conversations are tapped. But Marika takes everything for granted and does not grumble. Especially since there are intense shooting. From the age of 36 to 39, she starred in ten films. Marika becomes a wealthy woman. She has a home in Budapest and Berlin. After the movie "Hello Jeannine", she will be invited to an appointment with Hitler, who honors her conversation and will ask if she herself does all the tricks in the film. But never in his paintings Nazism propagandizes Marika Reck. The films with her participation are light, funny, musical. And the brightest and beloved film will be "The Girl of My Dreams", in which color, dance, music, singing will harmoniously merge. Until 1953 with her go to one or two films every year.

After forty years

Shooting continues. She will act in 12 more films and write a book of memories "Heart with Pepper". In 1950, the color musical comedy "Child of the Danube" will be released. Marika Reck plays in this carefree film blonde waitress Mariku from the tavern "Noah's Ark". Unemployed journalists pay attention to it, they want to settle in these beautiful places. They learn about her dream of rebuilding her father's old barge. To this end, they propose that it create a youth theater with a repertoire that will promote renewed folk art. Marika takes everything with a great passion and is supported by all the actors of the old theater, which closed. But during a thunderstorm lightning hits the theater. Everything burns to the ground. But the journalists and the heroine of the film do not lose heart. In love with Marika Georg, he publishes an article urging residents to help young people. And here again the theater grows up, in which the magnificent Marika dances and sings with brilliance. The performances are sold out, and soon Marika's dream is to fix the old barge.

Completion of career

Since 1958, Marika Rekk mostly sings and dances in performances on the stages of Vienna, Munich, Hamburg and West Berlin. To "retire" it comes out in 1988. She has her own fan club. Even in old age she lives, not decrepit. She dies in Baden, near Vienna, at the age of 90. That's such a long and full life lived Marika Reck. Her biography speaks of a talent that can bring joy to people.