- First recipient of a Bambi Award ever (1948).
- Recently declassified documents suggest that Rokk was recruited as a Soviet Spy in the 1940's along with her husband Georg Jacoby whilst studying in Berlin. The network she worked for passed on military intelligence including plans for Operation Barbarossa and the Battle of Kursk.
- Beside her movie career, she became one of Europe's most famous operetta singers. She performed on stage until 1986.
- Marika Rökk soon became a leading star of Nazi Germany and could count on an experienced team with which she shot most of her movies. First of all director Georg Jacoby, whom she married in 1940 but also cinematographer Konstantin Irmen-Tschet, film composer Franz Grothe and Peter Kreuder as well as choreographer Sabine Ress.
- Started in cinema in 1932.
- Singer/actress/dancer.
- Her movie debut was in 1930.
- Mother of Gaby Jacoby.
- Frequently paired on screen with the actor Johannes Heesters.
- In 1924 she intensified her dance career in Paris and joined the ballet company Hoffmann. With the company she got an engagement at Moulin Rouge in the same year. It followed appearances on Broadway and she went on tour through the USA before the company broke up in 1925.
- The actress Marika Rökk was born as Marie Karoline Rökk in Cairo. After the family moved to Budapest, she took dance lessons in her childhood.
- When she had a great success with the revue "Stern der Manege" she got a two-year contract with UFA.
- In 1948 she was among the first recipients of the German Bambi media award.
- After World War Two, she and Georg Jacoby were hit with a working prohibition and Rökk appeared in entertainment evenings for American troops. She was only able to play in movies again from 1948 and she took part in the movies Die Csardasfürstin (1951), Mask in Blue (1953) and Bühne frei für Marika (1958). Afterwards she only appeared seldom on the big screen and she turned to the stage again.
- She began her film career in England with the movies Kiss Me Sergeant (1930) and Why Sailors Leave Home (1930). After that followed a movie in Hungary called Kísértetek vonata (1933).
- Her first German movie was Light Cavalry (1935) and launched a great career which continued till to the 50s.
- From 1929 Marika Rökk began to appear on stage as a singer and dancer in revues and operettas throughout Europe.
- Roman Polanski once said he was a big fan of her in his childhood.
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