Blanka Szombathelyi | |
Birth Date: | 21 June 1918 |
Birth Place: | Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (now Oradea, Romania) |
Death Date: | 22 May 1999 (aged 80) |
Death Place: | Los Angeles, United States |
Occupation: | Actress |
Yearsactive: | 1930–1939 (film) |
Blanka Szombathelyi (1918–1999) was a Hungarian stage and film actress.[1] [2] She was born in Transylvania in Austria-Hungary in territory that was subsequently part of Romania. During the 1930s she played ingénues in a number of Hungarian films, generally comedies. Following the end of the Second World War she emigrated from Hungary with her husband the athlete Ferenc Orbán setting first in Switzerland and then in Los Angeles.