Blonde and sophisticated, beautiful Hungarian singer Ilona Massey is ultimately failed to register his name in a sustainable manner in the history of filmed operetta. Despite strong support from the boss of Hollywood's most prestigious firm who watched special on her, the beautiful is not reached to convince the public that does not forgive him for wanting to take the place of the popular Jeanette MacDonald with Nelson Eddy. Very quickly, the Slavic vamp was reduced to westerns and horror films of series B.
Born in 1910 in Budapest, in a very poor family, Ilona Massey has had a miserable childhood and confessed he had tasted the meat at the age of 7 years. Apprentice dressmaker, the young woman thinks only
escape her sordid condition: she saves her meager income to take singing lessons and do not hesitate to push the door of the Opera Budapest for any position: more interested in its beauty as for her voice, the director offered him a job as a chorister. The publication of his photograph on a magazine will bring him glory. To progress in the social scale, the blonde wife divette a noble young man, against the advice of his parents: a brief union that will end in divorce and the suicide of the husband Incosol. But the career of Ilona is launched: the new director of the Protected Vienna Opera Ilona sings Tosca and Aida and starred in two films in Austria. The first of them with the late actor Heinz Rühman is also a charming comedy optimistic. On holiday in Hungary, the MGM boss Louis B Mayer, who came to enjoy the virtues of the waters of Carlsbad, would have met him and noticed the beautiful Ilona: options abound on the exact conditions of that interview: some argue that Agent of the actress allegedly sent his photo to the producer, who sought new recruits for
his dream factory, others that he would have heard him sing opera, met in Salzburg at the castle of Max Reinhardt then he would have danced with her at a party, that the ramp her dress had slipped, revealing her generous chest widely ... In any event, Louis B Mayer brought many in his luggage and the beautiful Hungarian actress Hedy Kiesler, who had a scandal by bathing naked in the film Ecstasy (1933) and transform it into
Hedy Lamarr, and finally Rose Stradner (future Mrs. Mankiewicz). The three young women were then housed in the same apartment together to perfect their English. The gossips say that they had become the private property of the brave grandpa Louis B Mayer, very sensitive to the pretty ladies. Ilona Massey
replaced at short notice Della Lind in an Rosalie musicals are featured are tenor Nelson Eddy
and tap dancer Eleanor Powell. big-budget production (2 million), this romantic comedy and fairytale (which chronicles the passion of a cadet at West Point for a princess traveling incognito) still dazzles through its number of extras and the numbers dancer. Even if she recites the text phonetically and his songs, the newcomer has a very favorable reception by the press. Launched as the new Marlene Dietrich, Nelson Eddy Ilona found in balalaika, sumptuous filmed operetta. While Jeanette mac Donald Nelson Eddy, couples featured many successful operettas, wanted to pursue their respective careers
with other partners, the public found it difficult to assess them separately (in fact he thought they were married together !). Despite its luminous beauty Ilona's role as revolutionary Russia was struggling to convince fans of Jeanette and Nelson: too mannered, too sophisticated (that is an understatement!) And vocally can be somewhat limited (but frankly Jeanette MacDonald was not really better in this regard), she was decidedly less good at comedy as his illustrious rival. Nevertheless, it appears that the rapid decline of the Hungarian star is more related to her love life. Wife of Sam Katz, a producer for MGM, his infidelity and her affair with actor Alan Curtis, who cost him his contract with the firm of a lion.
now recovered by the studios as unglamorous as the Republic, the beautiful yet run in a few films as an honest bill completely fictional but entertaining bio of Schubert's life where she co-starred with Alan Curtis became her husband, or international lady, a spy movie in which it delivers secret messages through his songs (a little
as its competitor Macdonald in Cairo who sows Morse code in her vocalizations!). If Frankenstein Meets the Werewolf (1943) is quite nice, we understand that this is not the kind of movie, bordering on the ridiculous, the beautiful blonde will improve his star status. In 1943, Ilona Massey tries his luck on Broadway in the Ziegfeld Follies, where she won some success despite some reservations about his vocal abilities. (She played such Zing Went the Strings of My Heart borrowed Judy Garland). Generous, she donates a large part of his winnings to the Red Cross. Became a U.S. citizen, the beautiful fact an unexpected return to the MGM to replace his eternal rival Miss McDonald, a great musical fantasy "in Mexico City Extravaganza" whose nubile Jane Powell is the star. In this amusing comedy recounting the of a young girl trying to seduce a man who might well have been his father or his grandfather (the pianist Jose Iturbi), Ilona Massey manages to get noticed especially by its beauty: technicolor suits her to perfection and in the sequence where she sings Someone to Love
with typical orchestra of Xavier Cugat she really captivates its beautiful appearance. But what strange reason has doubled to your singing? In 1947, Nelson Eddy Ilona found in a western musical and romantic rather well done (outpost). I did not, however, really caught on his film with the Marx Brothers (treasure hunting).
In the '50s, the singer will be seen sporadically on television. Fiercely anti-communist, the actress expresses loudly beliefs and anger, especially after the invasion of Budapest by the Red Army. During the visit krutchev the U.S., it will not hesitate to ask for his deportation to the United Nations.
En1955, Ilona Massey married a former general in the Air Force and dark quickly forgotten.
She died in 1974 after a long struggle
against cancer. 
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