Introduction
Eva Bartok (18 June 1927 – 1 August 1998), was an actress born in Budapest, Hungary as Éva Márta Szőke Ivanovics. She began acting in films in 1950 and her last credited appearance was in 1966. She is best known for appearances in Blood and Black Lace, The Crimson Pirate, Operation Amsterdam, and Ten Thousand Bedrooms.
Biography
During the Second World War, a teenaged Bartok, the daughter of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, was forced to marry Hungarian Nazi officer Géza Kovács; the marriage was annulled after the war on the grounds of coercion of a minor. She had four other marriages, all of which ended in divorce, including her final marriage, to actor Curd Jürgens (1955–56). Her daughter Deana was born in 1957, shortly after the marriage to Jürgens ended. Three decades later, Bartok claimed Deana's biological father was actually Frank Sinatra, with whom she had a brief affair in 1956.
During the 1950s, Bartok was reportedly diagnosed with ovarian cancer while pregnant, but the tumour 'disappeared' before the birth of her child. She died on 1 August 1998 in London.
Partial filmography
- Mezei próféta (1947)
- A Tale of Five Cities (1951)
- The Crimson Pirate (1952)
- Venetian Bird (1952)
- Spaceways (1953)
- The Last Waltz (1953)
- Park Plaza 605 (1953)
- Front Page Story (1954)
- Circus of Love (1954)
- Victoria and Her Hussar (1954)
- Orient Express (1954)
- Break in the Circle (1955)
- Dunja (English: Her Crime Was Love, 1955)
- The Gamma People (1956)
- Through the Forests and Through the Trees (1956)
- Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)
- The Doctor of Stalingrad (1958)
- Madeleine Tel. 13 62 11 (a.k.a. Naked in the Night, 1958)
- Operation Amsterdam (1959)
- SOS Pacific (1959)
- Beyond the Curtain (1960)
- Ti aspetterò all'inferno (1960)
- Eheinstitut Aurora (English: Marriage Bureau Aurora, 1962)
- Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Books
- Bartok, Eva: Worth Living For. Autobiography. Putnam 1959.