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Vivacious and hardworking, Soprano Gueden comes by her acting talent naturally: her mother was a comedy-minded classmate of Elisabeth Bergner at the Vienna Conservatory, and her dream was for Hilde to have the stage career she her self gave up to raise a family. Hilde made her debut as Cherubino in Zurich in 1939, has since made roles such as Sophie in Rosenkavalier particularly...
...anyone onstage except the leading lady. She charms you in the pink hoop skirts and ruffled lace of the lady in court; she practically seduces you in the bodkin and tights of the forester; and, then, in the chaste white of her wedding gowns, she melts you. Elizabeth Bergner, in the movie, was flighty enough for the forest scenes; but Hepburn was even more light-footed and still human too. Bergner was a haughty Rosalind; Hepburn just seemed to be in love...
...about $1,000,000), will give the old comedy a rest in favor of Present Laughter. Some of the other country hands: Helen Hayes (in a tryout of William McCleery's Good Housekeeping), Paul Lukas, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Eva Le Gallienne, Basil Rathbone, Mady Christians, Ann Harding, Elisabeth Bergner, Joan Blondell, Bert Lahr, Kay Francis...
...Trembling (adapted by Louis Paul from his novel Breakdown; produced by Paul Czinner and C. P. Jaeger) is a very exhaustive, and very exhausting, study of a dipsomaniac. It reveals Ellen Croy, a Manhattan newspaper columnist (Elisabeth Bergner), as a driven soul, harrowed by something in her life which she can neither exorcise nor explain. The play follows her step by step, relationship by relationship-boss (Anthony Ross), husband (Millard Mitchell), old friend (John Carradine)-down into the pit. Then it slowly drags her back into the light...
...violently emotional, unstable, unstationary Ellen, Actress Bergner is skillful, but ultimately exhausting...