María Corda — Meet Helen of Troy (1927) 🇺🇸

Maria Corda, the vivacious film actress imported from Hungary by First National, is expected by that company to make a big hit with the American fans.

Her first film in this country will be The Private Life of Helen of Troy, in which she has the title rôle of Helen.

Miss Corda [María Corda] has played leads in several foreign productions. One of these, “Madame Wants No Children,” is being released in this country by Fox.

The daughter of a concert violinist, she was born in Budapest. Educated in a convent, she took up ballet dancing after leaving school, and secured a place as a member of the Opera Royale ballet in Budapest.

Her first work in the movies was done in Vienna. Then she played some rôles for the Ufa organization in Berlin. Nearly all the films that she made abroad were directed by her husband, Alexander Corda [Alexander Korda], who has also been signed by First National.

It is expected that she will be starred in a succession of important pictures following Helen of Troy.

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, August 1927

Picture Play Magazine, 1920s, Among Those Present, 1927, María Corda