Word: bergner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days before last week's Berlin premiere of Catherine the Great, British-made cinema in which Elizabeth Bergner, Austrian-born Jewess, plays the young queen (TIME, Feb. 19), Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels issued a pro- nouncement: "Non-Aryans who had disappeared and who had apparently, for the most part fled abroad, are again appearing in German theatres. ... It must not come to this, that the public takes to self-help to defend itself. . . ." To make the pronouncement plainer, Dr. Goebbels' newspaper, Der Angriff, published an article which flayed Jewish actors in general and Elizabeth Bergner...
...Great (London Films) is more tender than The Private Life of Henry the VlII (Charles Laughton), more glittering than Queen Christina (Greta Garbo). But what makes this sumptuous pageant of antique Russia noteworthy is the presence in the title rôle of an able Viennese actress named Elizabeth Bergner...
...Fairbanks Jr. puts cruelty and craft in his performance of Peter III but lets his relish in clothes-swishing robes, shiny boots & swords-suggest a highschool senior in a commencement play. England's great Sir Gerald du Maurier plays a French valet. Catherine the Great, however, is Elizabeth Bergner's play. She is small (102 lb.), gentle, supple but not beautiful. In a blonde wig she is a young Catherine that might have been stamped on a bright silver coin. Possessed of extremely large brown eyes, she looks prettily petite when reviewing her guardsmen in tights...
...first glimpse she had of herself in cinema caused Actress Bergner to forswear it. She took it up again because, improvident, she wished to make some money for a sick friend. Appearing in Nju, she married the director, Dr. Paul Czinner who has since done all her pictures. Actress Bergner likes Schnitzler, wiener schnitzel, skating, odd-looking clothes. She dislikes women who smoke, smokes incessantly herself...