Lili Darvas Biography

The wife of Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnar, actress Lili Darvas was a leading player on the Budapest stage in the 1920s and 1930s. She made three European films in the mid-'30s before she and her husband were forced to flee the invading Nazis. After the death of Molnar in 1952, Darvas returned to acting in American television; one of her more memorable TV appearances was as Billy Mumy's grandmother in the 1960 Twilight Zone episode "Long Distance Call." Lili Darvas also showed up sporadically in such Hollywood theatrical films as Cimarron (1960). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi