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Eugeniusz Bodo
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Eugeniusz Bodo (born 28 December 1899 – 7 October 1943) was a producer, director, and one of Poland's most prominent actors and comedians during the interwar period.
He became a wealthy entrepreneur and co-owner of a profitable film studio, café, and producers' company in the late 1930s. In 1932, he portrayed "Koko the Clown" and Zula Pogorzelska as "Betty Boop" in the show Betty Boop at the Rex Theatre in Warsaw.
In 1939, his fame had spread well beyond the borders of Poland, to the point where the Yugoslav press called him the Polish Maurice Chevalier.
During the early-1940s, he was arrested by the Soviet NKVD following the German and Soviet invasion of Poland. As a consequence of an NKVD interrogation conducted by NKVD chief Pyotr Fedotov, he was sentenced to 5 years in a work camp.
Initially imprisoned at Moscow's Butyrki jail, he was not released following the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement because the Soviet authorities claimed he was not a Pole but rather a Swiss citizen, and so the Soviet Union’s Amnesty for Polish people did not apply to him.
For the next 50 years, his whereabouts were unknown. Prior to the fall of communism in 1989, the Soviets propagated the false story that Bodo was slain by the Germans in 1941. This version is still found in some recent publications.
The Soviet authorities only announced his fate in 1991.
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Death
- He died of starvation at the age of 43 in 1943 in the Soviet Gulag after being arrested by the Soviet NKVD following the German and Soviet invasion of Poland.
Trivia
- Bodo, who was always well-dressed, was named the "King of Style" by the readers of Film magazine in 1936.