The actress lived in the three-story house when her newborn son died during the war bombings.
An interesting ad appeared on the ingatlan.com website. According to the description, in the former villa of the famous actress Klári Tolnay, a 5+1-room, 204-square-meter apartment with a large terrace and garden connection is offered for sale. The then 24-year-old but already nationally known actress and her husband, the famous director Ákos Ráthonyi, took possession of the villa in 1938.
They were married two years earlier,
and the event moved Budapest, as Klári Tolnay had by then become a favorite of many after appearing in the 1934 period film, Meseautó,
then in the movie Lila acacia and Okos mama. It is interesting that she came to the filming of Meseautó as Rozi Tolnay, but was persuaded to use the more elegant first name Klári.
The villa in Rózsádomb in the advertisement ultimately did not bring luck to the actress, and was, in fact, a painful scene for her personal dramas. Although he was still happy to move there in 1938.
Even in his old age, he told me that the splendor of Rózsádomb was nothing new to him, since as a child he lived with his family in an eight-room mansion in Mohorán. While living in the villa, it became clear to him that Ákos Ráthonyi would not be the love of his life. Despite this, their daughter Zsuzsanna was born in 1940, and their second child, a boy, was on the way in 1944. At that time, bombs were regularly falling on Budapest.
Due to the shock caused by one of the bombings, labor began, the baby boy was born, but he died shortly afterwards.
The villa was then seriously damaged during one of the bombings, and Tolnay turned her back on the villa and her husband forever. Ákos Ráthonyi decided to defect not long after, he lived first in England and then in Germany.
Source: Ingatlan.com/Álomtída Ingatlan
In 1945, Klári Tolnay had a tender relationship with the famous writer Sándor Márai, and then the actor Iván Darvas, ten years younger than her, appeared in her life, who became her second husband. The intense love then ended, Darvas was imprisoned after the 1956 revolution, and Tolnay started a new life without him. She could remain a recognized actress even in the communist system, but she never joined the party.
Once, Mátyás Rákosi himself asked him why he was not a party member. Tolnay answered with a straight face, because he was of bourgeois origin and a believer in God.
One of the special features of the apartment offered for sale in the former villa of the famous actress is the 57 square meter terrace, where Klári Tolnay once rested during breaks between film shoots. The amount requested for the apartment, 249 million to be exact, seems high at first sight, but even so, it does not reach the price per square meter of II. district average.
Featured image: hangosfilm.hu
