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Ilona Massey

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Actress

The Resume

    (June 16, 1910-August 20, 1974)
    Born in Budapest, Hungary
    Birth name was Ilona Hajmassey
    Appeared in the films 'Rosalie' (1937), 'International Lady' (1941), 'Invisible Agent' (1942), 'Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man' (1943), 'Holiday in Mexico' (1946), 'Northwest Outpost' (1947), 'Love Happy' (1949), and 'Jet Over the Atlantic' (1959)
    Appeared on Broadway in 'The Ziegfeld Follies' (1943)

Why she might be annoying:

    She did not speak English when she arrived in Hollywood and had to learn the lines for her first films phonetically.
    She never lived up to her studio hype as 'the next Dietrich.'
    She hosted a variety show for the Dumont network that lasted ten episodes.
    She was married four times, divorced three times.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She recalled about her impoverished childhood, 'I didn't know the taste of meat until I was seven years old.'
    She was an opera singer at the Staats Opera in Vienna.
    Her performance as a femme fatale in 'Love Happy' inspired Milton Caniff to add the character Madame Lynx to his 'Steve Canyon' comic strip. He also asked her to pose for his drawings of Lynx.
    She picketed the United Nations when Nikita Khrushchev visited to protest the Soviet invasion of Hungary (1956).

Credit: C. Fishel


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    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 98 Votes: 52.04% Annoying