Danuta Mancewicz is known for “Bolek and Lolek” and the fairy tale “Gąska Balbinka”. Not everyone knows that the artist liked Ryszard Barycz, whom many girls in Poland were already lusting after. It turns out that the woman rejected his engagement and married someone else.
She rejected Ryszard Barycz’s engagement. She married someone else
According to the website “”, few people knew about the attempted engagement between the artists. Everything came to light thanks to letters belonging to Danuta Mancewicz and her sister Hala. You can read them in the book “Maluśkie. Twisted memories of the Mancewicz sisters from Żoliborz”. Danuta was born on November 24, 1922 in Bydgoszcz. During the war, she took acting lessons from Zofia Małynicz and Henryk Ładosz, and after the war she started working at the Polish Army Theater. At that time, among others, Shakespeare, Molière, Gogol and Chekhov were staged. The woman was full of life and joy. She quickly caught the attention of Ryszard Barycz, who was already considered a lover at that time. The couple got involved and thought about this relationship seriously, but suddenly Danuta broke off the engagement. She got involved with Tadeusz Drebert, and in 1948, after graduating, she got married. – Danusia had a crush on tall, blue-eyed blondes. Barycz and my father were like that. She chose her father, he must have had some other, more overt or hidden values, explained Wojciech Drebert, Mancewicz’s son. The artist died in 2008.
Ryszard Barycz was loved by women. He worked as an actor for over 60 years
Ryszard Barycz was born on March 17, 1924. He first appeared on stage in 1946. In 1948, after passing the acting exam and breaking up with Danuta Mancewicz, he moved to Łódź, where he graduated from the National Institute in 1954. Theater Art. When he appeared on the theater stages, there were already many women in the audience who admired the artist.
When he played Prince Bolkonsky in ‘War and Peace’, there was an overwhelming majority of women in the audience. Ladies in love in theater programs wrote ‘I love you’ next to his name. Pressed red lips were also not uncommon
– about the actor in “Life Hot”. The actor died in 2010. He was professionally active until his death.
Source: Gazeta

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