found: Omnibus. III, vol. 1 [MP] 1954:credits (Nora Kovach, performer)
found: LC data base, 4-18-88(hdg.: Kovach, Nora, 1931- )
found: New York times WWW site, Jan. 26, 2009(in obituary published Jan. 24: Nora Kovach; d. last Sunday [Jan. 18, 2009], Miami, aged 77; fiery Hungarian ballerina who caused a sensation in 1953 with Istvan Rabovsky, her ballet partner and first husband, when they became the first highly publicized dance defectors to the West from the Soviet bloc)
found: Wikipedia, September 23, 2020(Nora Kovach; Nora Kovach (13 June 1931 - 18 January 2009) was a Hungarian ballerina who defected in 1953 together with her husband and fellow ballet dancer Istvan Rabovsky; Kovach was raised in Budapest, and was trained as a dancer at the schools of the Budapest Opera Ballet and of the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad; as the leading dancers of the Budapest State Opera, Kovach and Rabovsky were sent on tour in May 1953 to East Berlin; with the Cold War intensifying, they disappeared from a scheduled performance and were able to board a subway train in a station located underneath their hotel and escape to West Berlin; the couple traveled to the United States, arriving in Hoboken, New Jersey on the SS Nieuw Amsterdam on November 13, 1953; they started their own troupe in the early 1960s called Bihari; Kovach opened a ballet school in Plainview, New York in 1969; Kovach divorced Rabovsky and married Tibor Szegezdy, who died in 1985; she was survived by her third husband, Steve Farago; the native form of her name is Kovács Nóra)
found: IMDb, Seprember 23, 2020(Nora Kovach (1931-2009); Nora Kovach was born on June 13, 1931 in Budapest, Hungary; she was married to Steve Farago, Tibor Szegezdy and Istan Rabovsky; she died on January 18, 2009 in Miami, Florida, USA; Hungarian ballerina who defected to the West from the Soviet block with her partner and then-husband Istvan Rabovsky in 1953; they also were rescued from the Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria after it collided with another ship in 1954)
