Zita Kabátová

Known for

Acting

Born

April 27, 1913

Birthplace

Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

Died

May 27, 2012 (aged 99)

Biography

Zita Kabátová was a Czech theatre and film actress born on 27 April 1913 in Prague. She began her professional acting career in 1935 and soon became one of the most visible faces of pre‑war Czech cinema.

In the 1930s and early 1940s she appeared in more than thirty Czech films, including Paradise Road (1936), Delightful Story (1936), A Foolish Girl (1938), Arthur and Leontine (1940), Station Master (1941) and The Respectable Ladies of Pardubice (1944). She also starred in the German films Schicksal am Strom (1944) and Glück unterwegs (1944).

After the war she was temporarily banned from acting, and for several years worked outside the theatre and film industry. She returned to the stage in...