Manyi Kiss would be 100 years old this year. The village of Zágon and her family were the most important for her. During summers, she often visited the village where she was born, which inspired her art. Although objects or pictures can only be pale imprints of one's life, with view to an artist's career, these may shed light onto it. It is so with the career of Manyi Kiss, whose memory is authentically recalled by them.

The Székely National Museum and the National Theatre History Museum and Institute have presented a number of exhibitions in the past five years. The documents on display now have been discovered throughout the research works of EMKE Szabédi Memorial House, Kónya Ádám museologist, the Uferini family of Hamburg, and also the nephew of Manyi Kiss and Albert Kiss and his family.

In addition, the visitors will also see a muster copy of the stamp that was issued by the Hungarian Postal Services on occasion of the centenary, and will also find out about the favourite games of the actress.

Manyi Kiss was born in Magyarlóna, Transylvania, in 1911. She was taken to Zágon when she was an infant, where her aunt and her husband adopted her. She has a happy childhood she was always happy to remember. As a child, she wanted to be a pianist, but at the age of 14 she enrolled the theatre courses managed by Miklós Izsó, and soon was cast in her first role.

She moved to Szeged in 1928 where she was a soubrette, comedian, stage hand and dancer, too. She signed a contract with the Operetta Theatre in the 1930s, then she joined the staff of the Comedy Theatre. From 1954 up to her death in 1971 she worked for Madách Theatre.

Her first success, the turning point in her career, came in 1940 with the play by Mihály Eisemann Youth, Silliness.

She also found films where she also became really successful. She starred in over 100 films. In 1954 she was awarded with the Jászai Mari Award for playing the role of a moving old lady.

In 1957 she played the role of Edit in the 'Diary of Anna Frank'. In 1957 she received the Kossuth Prize; in 1958 she memorably played the role of Mother Courage.