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Marika Rkk was an Egyptianborn singer, dancer and actress of Hungarian descent, who became famous in German films, notably in the Nazi era.

Marie Karoline Rkk was born in 1913 in Cairo, Egypt, as the daughter of Hungarian architect and contractor Eduard Rkk and his wife Maria Karoline Charlotte ne Karoly. She spent her childhood in Budapest, but in 1924 her family moved to Paris. Here she learned to dance and starred with the Hoffmann Girls at the Moulin Rouge cabaret. After a tour that led her to the Broadway she continued her dance training in the United States, where she worked with Ned Wayburn. In 1929 she returned to Europe and the next year acted in her first film, Why Sailors Leave Home, a British comedy directed by Monty Banks, starring Leslie Fuller.

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