Trivia

Because of her notability due to her famous and hugely popular postcards, she was, in 1940, reportedly approached by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, who asked her to be the face and body for sex dolls provided to German soldiers as a way to combat syphilis at the front, but she refused.

The daughter of a wealthy bank manager and part of an aristocratic Hungarian family, when Käthe wanted to marry at age 16, her disapproving parents placed her in Santa Christiana Kloster (Hochstraße 8, 1230, Vienna) to prevent any elopement. After 18 months at the convent, she went to high school in Vienna, and then finally to boarding school, where she took riding and fencing lessons.

After numerous futile applications in the city, Hungarian film director Alexander Korda got her a role as an actress in the 1927 comedy film Männer vor der Ehe, opposite her future husband, Constantin J. David.

When the national uprising broke out in Hungary in 1956 she was in Budapest. She looked to the wounded and became injured herself later.

Kathe von Nagy was a French teacher at Happy Valley School in Ojai, California, in the mid-1950s.

She began her acting career in 1927, often in leading roles and became famous for her countless postcards, which helped promote her modeling career. From 1937 onward she was mainly in French-speaking roles, but also appeared in Italian and Austrian film productions.

As a young adult, Nagy's dream was to become an author, also unusual for a woman of her time. She went to Budapest, where she wrote a few short articles that were eventually published in a magazine. Shortly after this, she decided to pursue her interest in acting and enrolled in the acting school of Béla Gáal, near Budapest. There she learned acting, dancing, and singing. Her parents were unhappy about her change of career and frequent moves. To satisfy her parents (especially her father), she returned and worked with him in his bank for a period of time, while secretly writing novels.

In 1926, Nagy moved to Berlin to pursue a career in the film industry, but as she was then unknown, she took a position as correspondent for the Hungarian newspaper Pesti Hírlap to earn a living.

The movie operettas and musical comedies in which she appeared were great successes during the mid-to late 1920s. At the beginning of the 1930s she began appearing on screen.

In 1930s, she starred in Le Capitaine Craddock, which made her notable in France, where she would later make half her movies.

Her last film was the German film Die Försterchristl (1952) in 1952, alongside Johanna Matz.

Because of her multilingual education she was able to establish in the French area too. As Kate de Nagy she also became a star in France.

In 1928 she starred in the successful Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume ("Vienna, City of My Dreams"), which made her known as the "up-and-coming young actress of the European cinema".

During the Second World War, Nagy virtually retired from the acting industry, appearing in only one movie, Mahlia la métisse.