Word: basserman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the secondary characters, such as music publisher Max Dreyfuss (Charles Coburn), and one of Gershwin's teachers (Albert Basserman), have been carefully reduced to outworn types. In these cases Dreyfuss represents the lure of financial success, and the old teacher stands for true art. Conversely, Papa Gershwin (Morris Carnovsky) has had his personal eccentricities exaggerated to the bursting point. There is no consistency in the incongruity...
...card-playing Papa Gershwin, Morris Carnovsky blends humility, humor and awesome respect for his gifted son. ("How nice you write it out, Georgie, such black ink," he says, examining in uncomprehending wonder George's first musical manuscript.) Herbert Rudley and Albert Basserman underplay with moving simplicity the difficult roles of a retiring, satellite brother and a music teacher distrustful of Mammon's claims on his favorite pupil. Oscar Levant, as himself, needs no acting skill to project his practiced cockiness, but respect for his late friend in real life has given his comic relief performance an unexpected depth...
...does. Jennifer Jones proves that she's got the versatility deserving of an Academy Award, and Robert Walker is pleasant when he's not trying to be cute. Albert Basserman rounds out a first-rate cast in a first-rate piece of cinema, simply conceived, beautifully executed...
Escape (Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Nazimova, Conrad Veidt, Blanche Yurka, Albert Basserman; TIME...
Escape (Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Nazimova, Conrad Veidt, Blanche Yurka, Albert Basserman; TIME...