Word: bavaria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studios, she was already an unbeatable combination of the seemingly in genuous female and the obviously ingenious financier. In 1934, Use was ready to take over, and for years, she practiced the tough trade of running a movie studio; then the Red army moved on Berlin. Use escaped to Bavaria with only a handful of jewelry to keep her going...
...little town in Bavaria last week, one of the biggest casting jobs of the 1960 season was under way. Most of the hopeful male actors were already wearing their makeup-full beards. Every candidate knew what was expected of him because the play was a revival: the 34th run since 1634 of the enactment of Christ's Passion at Oberammergau...
...Glass Tower (Bavaria-Filmkunst; Ellis) is a big, bareboned West Berlin penthouse, where Lilli Palmer perches like a trapped pigeon, caught in the dual grip of a possessive husband and a plot as paper-thin as strudel crust. Her husband (O. E. Hasse), a vain, autocratic man of means, sees Lilli as a beautiful confirmation of his success. Along comes a handsome German-American playwright (Peter Van Eyck), who reminds Lilli of her former glory as a great actress, persuades her to star in his new drama about a nun who gets raped. Her psychiatrist decides that "somewhere in your...
...Hollywood's Blue Angel, in fact, lie less in its cast than in its direction and production. Where the original was visually stark and grimy, the remake, splashed with incongruously cheery color, has the phony patina of Palm Springs. The sets and scenery (some of it filmed in Bavaria) suggest a Victor Herbert operetta rather than German bourgeois society. And the hardbitten, even morbid truths hammered home in the German version become soft and mawkish half-truths under the hand of Hollywood's Edward Dmytryk, who has consented to a happy ending that makes the teacher...
...Balcony is the second of a set of three novels by 34-year-old Author Stacton, an American who was born in Nevada and now travels widely. His first novel, Remember Me, about the mad Ludwig II of Bavaria, was published in England, where it won critical acclaim. Most readers of the current novel will eagerly await the third, to be published in the U.S. later this month. Entitled Segaki, it concerns a 14th century Japanese monk and his search for wisdom...