Word: bergner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immortal Bergner appears this time in a celebrated piece from the pen of the Immortal Bard. For the stage effects, the minor characters, and for the pleasure of rehearing Shakespeare's poetry it is well worth seeing. By and large, as theatre, it does...
...this partial failure Dietrich returned to von Sternberg. They made The Scarlet Empress, based on the life of Catherine of Russia. It was a picture characterized by a peculiar violence of background and a remarkable tedium of pace. By making a much better picture on the same subject, Elisabeth Bergner rubbed the first bloom off the von Sternberg-Dietrich prestige. Still there was no hint of rift until with dramatic abruptness von Sternberg told an Associated Press reporter he was going to break with Dietrich. He said he had done all he could to further her career, that he considered...
...Like It (Paul Czinner) exhibits Elisabeth Bergner as Rosalind in the third play by William Shakespeare offered to cinema audiences within the last year. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Max Reinhardt's cinema debut, and Romeo and Juliet, the late Irving Thalberg's masterpiece, had at least one thing in common: neither one has broken records for receipts. The critical acclaim which As You Like It received in London last summer and will receive in the U. S. this winter is not likely to save it from the same fate. Box-office appeal...
...that nonchalant contempt for probability which cinemaddicts, trained in an easier school, find so difficult to accept. However this may militate against the picture's monetary value, it is of frequent assistance to its star. As an interpreter of the most solidly English of all English playwrights, Elisabeth Bergner's most pronounced drawback is an outlandish accent which she makes no effort to control. In As You Like It, the heterogeneous aspect of a forest already overrun by an astonishing gamut of classes, nationalities and wild animals is not greatly increased by a heroine who voices her passion...
Like Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Romeo and Juliet, the Czinner As You Like It is textually exact. Sir James Barrie made the treatment from which Screenwriter R. J. Cullen wrote the scenario. Said Cinemactress Bergner: "I would like you to believe that we have made the film with love and with reverence. " . . We have had slightly to cut one or two of the longer speeches, but every word that we have left out has only been left out after argument, quarreling, and occasional tears." To highlight his wife's performance, Director Czinner saw to it that other roles...