Editing Steffi Duna (section)

==Hungarian dancer==
Born in the Eastern name order{{Citation needed |date=January 2025}} in [[Budapest]]<ref name="fl">{{cite news |title=Steffi Duna |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-frederick-leader-steffi-duna/162436155/ |access-date=January 6, 2025 |work=The Frederick Leader |date=May 15, 1936 |page=3|via = [[Newspapers.com]] }}</ref> of Czech extraction and nicknamed Stefi (Stefánia) by her friends and family, Duna started dancing at the age of nine and first attracted attention as a thirteen-year-old [[ballet]] dancer in [[Europe]]. She made her first stage appearance in dramatized [[fairy tales]] at the Children's Theater of Budapest. Initially opposed to the idea, her father sent her to the best schools in the Hungarian capital to learn dancing, and soon she had danced in most of the capitals of Europe.

In 1932, she appeared on the London stage in [[Noël Coward]]'s revue ''[[Words and Music (musical)|Words and Music]]'' as one of the four actresses to create the song "[[Mad About the Boy (song)|Mad about the Boy]]".