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Aside from the public appeal, there is also an artistic appeal which is 99 percent Elizabeth Bergner, star, victim, and Mrs. Carroll II. The only feature of "The Two Mrs. Carrolls" that distinguishes it from its fellow mysteries is the use of this physically and professionally exceptional Viennese star, Bergner, as a dramatic actress extraordinary, giving her full leeway rather than restricting her ability to the ordinary standing and sitting living room dialogue. Whatever Bette Davis did in the way of hair-tearing in "Juarez" and other "Bette-goes-mad" movies, is exceeded by the passion with which Miss. Bergner...
...bomb killed three of the men around Hitler. They were: Hitler's alleged double Heinrich Bergner, General Günther Korten, Chief of Air Force General Staff, Major General Heinz Brandt...
Hitler had been forewarned at Berchtesgaden by the Gestapo, had sent his double, Heinrich Bergner, into the big map room, where a dozen generals and their adjutants were waiting for afternoon conference. Von Stauffenberg mistook Bergner for Hitler. In the same motion with which he gave the Nazi salute, he tossed a hand grenade. There were flames and an explosion. Bergner fell dead...
...delightfully rueful refugee in Jacobowsky. Best brace of actors were Paul Robeson and Jose Ferrer as an eloquent Moor and supple lago in Othello. The most engaging performance by an actress turned up in musicomedy-Mary Martin's in One Touch of Venus. Nimble performances: Elisabeth Bergner (The Two Mrs. Carrolls), Margaret Sullavan (The Voice of the Turtle), Mary Philips in Chicken Every Sunday. Actresses, in a sense, had other fish to fry. Five of them turned playwright; one, Ruth Gordon, rang the bell with Over...
...great novelist Jakob Wassermann (The World's Illusion). World War I, in which Karlweis was cited four times for bravery, picked him up a law student, set him down an actor. By the mid-'20s he was playing in Vienna, Munich and Berlin opposite a flowering Elisabeth Bergner, a budding Marlene Dietrich...