Jenö Heltai

Jenö Heltai was born on Aug 11, 1871 in Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. Jenö Heltai's big-screen debut came with The Lady Escapes directed by Eugene Forde in 1937.

He studied law, and became a journalist, but he was a poet and writer too. He was a theatre director (Vígszínház), and he was a director of Athenaeum print factory. In 1892 he published his first book of poems, the Modern dalok. He liked Budapest, the Hungarian capital, and many of his works take place there. He had done some translations too. He used first the "mozi" word, which is a short word for the cinema in Hungary. Many of his works have been adapted to film.