Hungarian performing artists I - Manyi Kiss
Manyi Kiss (1911-1971) Jászai Mari Award (1954), Kossuth Prize (1957), Artist of Merit (1962), Artist of Excellence (1964) and SZOT Award (1970). She began her career in Kolozs-vár (today Cluj in Romania), Miskolc and Szeged, using her natural acting and excellent dancing and singing abilities to good effect in soubrette and comic roles. After 1932 she ap-peared with her husband, an Italian artiste, in circuses abroad, and then made her Budapest debut in 1934. She continued her career at the Podium Cabaret and Király Thea-tres before contracting in 1938 with the Budapest Operetta Theatre. She played in numerous other Budapest theatres and then joined the Comedy Theatre in 1943. She soon be-came a favourite with Budapest audiences. In 1954 she con-tracted with the Madách Theatre. In the 1950s her prowess in dramatic roles was discovered. (Source: hu.wikipedia.org)
| Type | First Day Cover |
| Short description | Magyar Posta is making the first release in a new series of commemorative stamps to present celebrated Hungarian performing artists. To mark the centenary of their birth, Rezső Gács (stage name Rodolfo), Lajos Básti and Manyi Kiss ap-pear on the stamps. |
| Printing Office | Pénzjegynyomda Zrt. |
| Issue year | 2011 |
| Issue time | 2011. március 28. |
| Theme | art |
| Designer | Péter Nagy |
| Stamped/Uncanceled | cancelled |
