Käthe von Nagy was born in April 4, 1904 in Szabadka, Austria-Hungary [now Subotica, Vojvodina, Serbia]. She wanted to get married at the age of 16, therefore, her parents put her in the Santa Chrisitana Convent, near Vienna. After that, she worked in her father's office and besides started to secretly write short stories for newspapers. In Budapest, she studied acting, dancing and singing, but her parents were not very happy. In 1926, she went to Berlin to make movies. She got a small part in t